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Alumni

Office portrait of Karen Engelbourg, Senior Vice President for Development & Alumni Relations at Boston University

University News

Karen Engelbourg, Leader of BU’s Fundraising Efforts and Alumni Engagement, Is Stepping Down

August 23, 2024

Photo: A large group of children all of whom are twins in Scotland

Life Sciences

Is There Science behind Twin Booms?

August 16, 2024

Photo: A white woman in a army uniform standing in the middle of nowhere in Alaska, snow covered as far as the eye can see.

Health & Medicine

The Rewards of Working as Rural Docs

July 22, 2024

Photo: Michael Arellano, a young individual with short black hair wearing a white crew neck, sits casually on a stone wall overlooking a vast landscape. They smile for the photo.

Commencement 2024

BU’s Commencement Student Speaker Is Proud of Being a Changemaker

May 16, 2024

Schanaya Barrows as Chloe, Sydney Jackson (CFA’26) as Dailyn, and Asilinn Brophy as Nat in Kirsten Greenidge’s Morning, Noon, and Night, a Company One production with Boston University. Photo by Ken Yotsukura

Theatre

BU Plays a Big Role in New Production from Boston’s Company One Theatre

April 29, 2024

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University News

BU Marks 50 Years of Changing Lives behind Bars

April 8, 2024

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Giving

Tenth Annual Giving Day Raises More Than $3.8 Million

April 4, 2024

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GIVING DAY

Giving Day 2024: BU Celebrates 10 Years of Giving Back

April 2, 2024

Photo: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivers his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in the auditorium of Oslo University in Norway on Dec. 10, 1964. King, the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace prize, is recognized for his leadership in the American civil rights movement and for advocating non violence. (AP Photo)

University News

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Observance to Be Built around His Nobel Peace Prize Speech

January 4, 2024

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Alumni

White House Welcomes Young BU Alum for Climate Change Talk

November 27, 2023

Photo: Maurice Parent, a tall, bald Black man wearing a long-sleeved burgundy, striped collared shirt and jeans, holds one hand to his hip. His other hand is formed into the "phone" motion as he mimes talking into a phone on a stage.

Theatre

One-Man Show about an Actor’s Time Teaching in Boston Schools Opens Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Season

October 6, 2023

Photo: Large trees with orange, yellow, and red leaves frame students on BU's campus as they sit and chat on and around a campus lawn on a sunny, warm autumn day in Boston.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: September 21 to 24

September 20, 2023

Photo: Will Lyman (CFA’71), an older white man, sits in the audience chairs as he looks at the camera with a side eye, posed strong. Jesse Kodama (CFA’25), a younger white man with short brown hair, sits across from him, holding his head in his hand.

Arts & Culture

In Huntington Theatre Company’s Prayer for the French Republic, BU Alum and Current Student Play Same Character, 70 Years Apart

September 19, 2023

Photo: A large cast of people in costumes stand on a stage with a red background. They are wearing dresses and suits in various colors.

Alumni

CFA Alum Nominated for Tony Award for Best Sound Design on Into the Woods

June 7, 2023

Photo: Protestors outside Harry Agganis Way support the Writers Strike admist the annoucement of David Zaslav as Commencement Speaker for BU's 150th Commencement.

COMMENCEMENT 2023

Nearly 200 Protest BU’s Commencement Speaker, David Zaslav, amidst Hollywood Writers Strike

May 21, 2023

Photo: A woman and her son read books. The woman is wearing a headscarf. Women’s rights advocate Homeira Qaderi, pictured here with her son, Siawash, faced death for her activism when the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021.

Books

COM’s Mitchell Zuckoff Re-creates a Suspenseful Story from the Chaotic US Withdrawal from Afghanistan

April 25, 2023

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Giving Day 2023

BU’s Ninth Annual Giving Day Is Tuesday, April 11

April 10, 2023

Photo: Tara Watchorn (Sargent’12), a white woman with short blonde hair standing with arms crossed behind the BU Women's Hockey bench in 2019-20, when she served as assistant women’s ice hockey coach, with longtime head coach Brian Durocher (Wheelock’78) an older white man wearing a suit and tie, standing to her right.

Athletics News

Tara Watchorn (Sargent’12) Named New Head Coach for Women’s Ice Hockey

April 3, 2023

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

BU Community Celebrate the Women Who Have Influenced Their Lives

March 14, 2023

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GENDER EQUITY

CVS Is Making Efforts to Combat Effects of Pink Tax and Period Poverty

February 17, 2023

CVS Is Making Efforts to Combat Effects of Pink Tax and Period Poverty