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The 121st Boston Marathon takes place on Monday, April 17.

Engineering

Patriots Day Weekend in and around Town

April 14, 2017

Rachel Blauner, a former captain of the BU women’s soccer team, will be competing in her first 26.2-mile race when she runs the 121st Boston Marathon Monday.

Boston

2013 Tragedy Impetus for Running to Help Others

April 14, 2017

University News

Missing Law Student Located

April 13, 2017

Literature

Robert Lowell Poetry Reading: Prize-Winning Poet Tom Sleigh

April 13, 2017

Alice Cronin-Golomb, CAS professor of psychological and brain sciences, in her office

Psychology

Office Artifacts: Alice Cronin-Golomb

April 13, 2017

The BU men’s lacrosse team has already set a program record for wins in a season, with nine—one more victory in its last two league games will lock up a postseason spot.

Varsity Sports

First Playoff Berth on the Line for Men’s Lacrosse

April 13, 2017

ESPN’s Kevin Merida says athletes can help focus attention on issues that concern them.

Gender Studies

Second BU Play It Forward Summit Tackles Race and Gender

April 12, 2017

Students at Friday’s BU Cinematheque asked The Americans executive producer Stephen Schiff about the show’s spycraft, such as trading sex for information. All true, he said.

Business & Law

The Americans Isn’t Really about Spies and Murder

April 11, 2017

still life portrait of classic literature books and a violin symbolizing the arts

Visual Arts

POV: Doctor’s Orders, Don’t Cut Arts Funding

April 11, 2017

2017 Student Employee of the Year Award Winners Miles Avila, Christopher Crivelli, Sara Do, Caylin Marotta, Tesla Abrego

Jobs

Annual Awards Bestowed on Student Employees, Supervisors

April 11, 2017

Fire trucks in front of LAW Tower

University News

Smoke Causes Evacuation of School of Law

April 10, 2017

Lauren Whitley, senior curator of textile and fashion arts for the MFA, shows students a mid-18th-century English brocaded silk dress, once worn by Lydia Catherine, Duchess of Chandos.

Style

One Class, One Day: Threading History

April 10, 2017

Sue Siegel (from left), CEO of GE Ventures and healthymagination, Sandro Galea, Robert A. Knox Professor and SPH dean, and Monica Valdes Lupi (SPH’99), executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, at the SPH Dean’s Symposium Building Healthy Cities: Boston and Beyond, on April 5.

Health & Medicine

New Approaches for Building Healthier Cities

April 10, 2017

University News

BU Today Wants You!

April 10, 2017

From left, Jeffrey Drazen, Benjamin Petrie, Jackson Steinkamp, Haares Mirzan, Sang Myung Han, Nicholas Chiu, Jason Park, Rahul Aggarwalm, and Isaac Kohane

Medicine

MED Students Place Second in NEJM Major International Data Challenge

April 10, 2017

Photo grid of BU students

Students

YouSpeak: Is Chivalry Dead?

April 10, 2017

Jessica Gagnon, assistant director for annual giving (left), and Phil DiMartino, associate director for annual giving, getting in on the Giving Day fun.

University News

Fourth Annual Giving Day Raises More Than $2.3 Million

April 7, 2017

Photo of team on pitcher's mound

Women's Sports

Softball Team Plays Patriot League Home Opener Tomorrow

April 7, 2017

Students will participate in hands-on cooking labs in Metropolitan College’s Science of Food and Cooking course.

Classes

10 Epic Classes at BU

April 7, 2017

Yo-El Cassell with students in dance exercise

Acting

For CFA’s Cassell, Movement Is an Expression of Inner Truth

April 6, 2017

For CFA’s Cassell, Movement Is an Expression of Inner Truth