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Coronavirus

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Voices & Opinion

POV: How Parents Can Help Their Children Deal with Ambiguous Loss

May 29, 2020

Photo of the stars of the siticom, The Social Distance, Michael Williams (from left), Quentin Nguyen-Duy (CFA’20), Lorin Sklamberg, and Julian Shapiro-Barnum (CFA’21). They group poses in front of a brown wall on the sidewalk.

Film & TV

When Life Gives You a Pandemic, Make a Sitcom

May 28, 2020

Photo of a game of Codenames being played at the annual board game festival of Finland in Helsinki, Finland. Some cards in the five by five grid show words, while others have blue, red and black illustrations of people.

Things-to-do

Board Games Are Back, and These Nine Are Great for a Pandemic

May 28, 2020

Photo of Bruno Rubio (GRS’96), a CAS master lecturer in chemistry, holding remote office hours for students in March. Rubio sits at a desk at the front of a lecture room and his hands working on a chemistry problem are seen on a projector screen behind him.

Technology

How Did That Remote Learning Work for You?

May 28, 2020

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Academics

BU Expands Hybrid/Simultaneous Graduate Program Offerings for Fall

May 27, 2020

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Addiction

Students in Recovery Face Challenges from Social Distancing

May 27, 2020

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Campus & Facilities

Work Resumes on Key BU Building Projects, with COVID-19 Precautions

May 26, 2020

Joe Besser (QST’20) and Michelle Goltsman (COM’20) take a walk down a street near campus on May 16, 2020. The Citgo sign is seen on the left in distance, as well as the green line tracks.

Public Health

Hundreds of BU Volunteers Are Calling All Admitted Students to Say Welcome

May 22, 2020

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Public Health

BU to Set Up COVID-19 Testing for Students, Faculty, and Staff

May 21, 2020

Portrait of Catherine Klapperich, Director of the Boston University Precision Diagnostics Center at the College of Engineering

COVID-19 Testing

How BU’s Plan to Test Students, Faculty, and Staff for COVID-19 Would Work

May 21, 2020

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Weekender

The Weekender: May 21 to 25

May 21, 2020

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Film & TV

Don’t Miss BUTV10’s Star-Studded Variety Show, Airing Tonight

May 21, 2020

Photo of the Charles River from the 26th floor of Student Village 2 May 7. Blue skies with puffy clouds are seen, as well as Storrow Drive and the Boston skyline.

Coronavirus

Testing and Flexibility Are Keys to Reopening, BU President Tells Virtual Panel

May 20, 2020

A photo of Massachusetts State Representative Jon Santiago posing in front of a gate that reads "Boston Medical Center"

Politics of Covid-19

Jon Santiago, the Doctor in the House

May 20, 2020

Composite image of the 2020 Kahn Awards winners; clockwise from left, top: Diana Walsh, Tak-Cheung Hui, Saskia Martinez, Alex Stern, Nicholas Walker, Eric Carey.

Student Awards

2020 Kahn Career Entry Awards Go to Six CFA Graduates

May 20, 2020

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University News

BU to Suspend Employee Retirement Contributions as Cost Savings

May 19, 2020

Ann-Lyssa Asare (Pardee’20) pops a champagne bottle full of confetti for a photo shoot in Marsh Plaza May 13, 2020. She wears a graduation cap and a red robe.

Commencement

BU’s 2020 Grads Get Creative Celebrating What Should Have Been Commencement Weekend

May 19, 2020

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Public Health

SPH Seminar: Applying COVID-19 Lessons to Climate Change

May 18, 2020

Ken Elmore hosts a virtual celebration for the BU Class of 2020

Student Life

Class of 2020 Gets a Virtual Send-off, for Now

May 17, 2020

Photo of a blossoming tree with pink flowers on Boston University campus behind Marsh Chapel on April 29, 2020. A person in a red coat walks on a path underneath the tree.

COVID-19 Recovery Plan

BU Releases a Back-to-Work Guidebook to Reopening Campus

May 15, 2020

BU Releases a Back-to-Work Guidebook to Reopening Campus