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Mental Health

BU Is Offering Free Screenings for Depression and Anxiety October 6

October 4, 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

Collage of BU’s new Career Development Professors from left to right, top to bottom: Heidi Meyer, Jean-Pierre Roussarie, Ngozi Okidegbe, Erica Pratt, Christine Slaughter, Heidi Meyer, Tesary Lin, Daniel Dempsey, and Rui Hua. Photos by Cydney Scott and Jackie Ricciardi

New Appointment

University Names Eight Junior Faculty to Career Development Professorships for Promising Scholars

September 26, 2022

Photo: Fall stock photo of BU campus. Trees with orange and yellow leaves line the sidewalks of Comm Ave as pedestrians walk by the campus.

FACULTY PROMOTIONS

Meet the 18 Charles River Campus Faculty Promoted to Associate Professor

September 23, 2022

The Center for Computing & Data Sciences, dubbed the “Jenga building” by students, will house a new faculty that has received a $3 million gift from MassMutual. Photo by Janice Checcio

University News

MassMutual Gives $3 Million to Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences

September 21, 2022

9/8/22 -- Boston, MALoretta Lees, new leader of Initiatives on Cities (IOC). Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

New Appointment

For New Initiative on Cities Leader, Urban Geography Is People

September 21, 2022

Photo: A group of migrants huddle on a sidewalk in front of St. Andrews Episcopal Church. A young Latina woman wearing a large white shirt holds a white cup and looks off as other Latinx individuals stand and look off around ehr.

Immigration

Florida Governor DeSantis’ Transport of Migrants to Massachusetts Is a “Crude Political Tactic…Playing with People’s Lives,” LAW Expert Says

September 16, 2022

Photo: CGS professor Kari Lavalli, a white woman with shoulder-length blonder hair wearing a blue floral blouse and black pants, sits and poses with her dog, a black, seven-year-old Portuguese Water Dog Bell.

Dog Training

Teaching Dogs to Jump off a Boat—and Ignore the Ducks

September 16, 2022

Photo of Brian McGrory, in his office at the Boston Globe. McGrory is a middle-aged White man with short blondish hair. He poses with his hand on his chin and holds a blue pen. He has a large desk that curves around to the back and his office has a large window that looks out onto downtown Boston. Papers and diet pepsi are seen in the foreground.

New Appointment

Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory to Lead BU Department of Journalism

September 13, 2022

As a CAS associate professor of the practice of playwriting, Nathan Alan Davis will run the University’s MFA Playwriting Program, and Megan Sandberg-Zakian is the new artistic director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Here the two stand back to back on Commonwealth Ave outside the theatre. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Arts & Culture

Longtime Collaborators Raising the Curtain on a New Era for Playwriting at BU

August 25, 2022

Education

Almost Every State Needs More Special Ed Teachers. How Can They Get Them?

August 4, 2022

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, and Taiwanese President President Tsai Ing-wen wave during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meeting top officials in Taiwan despite warnings from China, said Wednesday that she and other congressional leaders in a visiting delegation are showing they will not abandon their commitment to the self-governing island. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

International Relations

Following Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan, What Happens Next?

August 3, 2022

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony to the Jan. 6 committee revealed Donald Trump’s awareness that the mob he sent to the Capitol was armed. Photo by AP/Jacquelyn Martin

Faculty

Prosecute Trump? What Motivated the Mob? What Will Voters Say in November?

July 22, 2022

Photo of Michael Cox, right, a black man with glasses and grey, faces reporters as Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, left, an Asian woman with long black hair, looks on during a news conference, Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood.

Boston Police

Questrom Alum Won Civil Rights Case against Boston Police. Now He’s the Commissioner

July 15, 2022

Photo of Elevate editors-in-chief Kat Quach (COM’24) (left) and Valerie Sanchez Covaleda (CGS’22, COM’24) with copies of their magazine in the Newbury Center. Both sit on the floor in the newbury center, leaning against a blue couch and holding first issues of Elevate open in their laps. Quach is a young Vietnamese-American and trans woman who wears a black blouse and small earrings; Quach has a shaved head and has long black lashes. Sanchez is a young, women of color with long brown hair with blonde highlights. She wears white pants, a green blouse, and gold necklack. Both smile.

First-Gen

Newbury Center Launches First-Generation Student Magazine

July 1, 2022

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Can We Love a Country Even When It Falls Short?

June 30, 2022

Photo of ENG professor Ioannis Paschalidis, leaning against a glass door and slightly smiling. He wears a dark blue suit, light blue shirt, and red and white striped tie. He is a light-skinned middle-aged man with short brown and gray hair.

University News

ENG’s Ioannis Paschalidis New Director of Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

June 24, 2022

Photo of Kate Snodgrass, a middle aged White woman with a gray bob, who wears a dark blue scarf with white pattern. She sits on the corner of a couch, presumably in her office, where framed awards and playbills hang on the wall behind her.

Faculty

Curtain Call for Kate Snodgrass (GRS’90) at BU and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

June 23, 2022

Photo of David Chard, a white man with short gray hair and short gray beard. He wears a blue-gray suit and maroon tie and sits with his hand folded over his knee in what looks like a study or office. At top left and right, rainbows are overlaid.

PRIDE

My Coming Out Story: David Chard

June 22, 2022

photo of André de Quadros, choir director and teacher of music in the BU prison education program, looking at the camera with a stoic expression. He wears black, rectangular glasses and a light blue collared shirt.

Helping Refugee Children

With Singing Our Stories Project, CFA’s André de Quadros Will Bring Music Workshops to Migrant and Refugee Children

June 14, 2022

With Singing Our Stories Project, CFA’s André de Quadros Will Bring Music Workshops to Migrant and Refugee Children