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Where to Study

Best Places to Study for Finals at Boston University

April 30, 2025

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University News

Nor’easter Closes Campus Tuesday

February 12, 2024

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Varsity Sports

Cross Country and Track Star Aksel Laudon Shines On and Off the Course

October 25, 2023

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Health & Medicine

How First US Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Could Revolutionize Reproductive Health

July 14, 2023

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Medicine

What’s Behind the Critical Shortage of Drugs for Cancer and Other Diseases

June 14, 2023

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Commencement 2023

Class of 2023 Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Grads Urged to Use Their Time and Voice for Purpose

May 19, 2023

Photo: Three white individuals--Tracey Dechert, Lisa Allee, and Peter Burke--stand on a stairwell facing the camera. From left, Dechert is wearing a white blouse and cropped blazer with jeans, Allee is wearing gray slacks and a navy blouse, and Burke is in a gray blazer, black vest, and black slacks with a blue-gray button-up and tie. The area is well-lit and midday.

BOSTON MARATHON

How Has Trauma Care Changed 10 Years after Boston Marathon Bombings?

April 13, 2023

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Medicine

Why I Became a Doctor

April 3, 2023

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Match Day

BU’s Graduating Medical Students Find Their Future in a Match Day Envelope

March 20, 2023

Nurses wait for patients outside Boston Medical Center during the early days of the pandemic, March 20, 2020. The staff inside the triage tent assessed patients’ symptoms and determined whether they could receive care through BMC’s influenza-like illness clinic (ILI) for more moderate symptoms, or if they needed to go to the Emergency Department for more serious conditions. The COVID-positive patient census at BMC skyrocketed from 22 patients on March 24, 2020, to 121 patients in just eight days, and reached 219 by April 9.

Health & Medicine

Addressing the Ethical Issues at the Heart of the COVID-19 Pandemic

December 15, 2022

Edward Avedisian (left) and Aram V. Chobanian at the celebration announcing the Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine on September 29, 2022. Photo by Dave Green

Giving

The Lifelong Friendship behind Astonishing $100 Million Gift to BU’s Medical School

September 29, 2022

The many faces of Judith Kalaora (clockwise from top left): as Deborah Sampson, the first woman to enlist in the American military; as 19th-century philanthropist Madam Sarah Derby; as early suffragist Lucy Stone; as Rachel Walker Revere, wife of Paul Revere; as Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, fourth US president; as Hollywood actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr; as teacher and astronaut Christa McAuliffe; and as Princess Diana. Photo of Sampon by Vincent Morreale; of Derby, Madison, and McAuliffe by Al Conant; of Stone by Chris Cavalier; of Revere by Claudio Gustafson; of Hedy Lamarr by Chris Beasley; of Princess Diana by Greg Anthony

Theater

Judith Kalaora Brings History To Life

September 23, 2022

Listen Now

Why Do Some People Live to 100—and How?

September 12, 2022

Photo of First-year medical students in the new $5.5 million Learning Center attending a class on gene expression August 22. Students sit in groups around large tables as they work together.

Academics

New MED Curriculum Will Drive Patient-Centered, Equitable Care

August 22, 2022

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Student Life

School of Medicine Welcomes Class of 2026 at White Coat Ceremony

August 2, 2022

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MED CLASS OF 2022

School of Medicine Class of 2022: “Unprecedented Times Created a Truly Unprecedented Class”

May 20, 2022

Coats over their arms, third-year medical students filing into a tent on the BU Medical Campus Talbot Green Monday for their in-person White Coat Ceremony. They’d had a pandemic-mandated virtual ceremony in August 2020, and Monday’s in-person ceremony was timed to coincide with the beginning of their third year, when their studies transition to clinical rotation.

CAMED

Finally, a Two-Year-Delayed In-Person White Coat Ceremony for School of Medicine Entering Class of 2020

May 4, 2022

Photo of Nirisha Commodore, left, and Korede Yoloye reveal each others’ matches and celabrate on Match Day March 18 in the Metcalf Hall in the GSU. Commodore is a young Black woman wearing a burnt umber pant suite, with her hair pulled back in a bun; she extends her hands jubilantly and holds her match sign. Yoloye, a young Black woman with shoulder length hair wearing a black dress, is similarly exuberant and holds her "I Matched!" sign.

Student Life

Match Day 2022 Filled with Anticipation, Joy, Relief

March 21, 2022

Obituaries

School of Public Health Professor Richard Saitz Remembered for Dedication, Scholarship, Sense of Humor

January 24, 2022

Neuroscientist Stephen Grossberg standing in his yard looking up at the sky with a light shining behind him.

Books

Stephen Grossberg’s Magnum Opus Explores How Our Brains Make Our Minds

October 14, 2021

Stephen Grossberg’s Magnum Opus Explores How Our Brains Make Our Minds