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Graduate Students

Composite Image: 3 Grad students' portrait headshots are cropped together in this photo. A woman on the left is wearing a red Boston University basketball jersey. The man in the middle is wearing a purple suit and tie. The woman on the right is wearing a brown blazer and a headscarf.

Commencement 2023

Meet Three Inspiring Master’s Students from the Class of 2023

May 17, 2023

Photo: A Black man adjusts a small painting on the wall for his MFA thesis exhibition. The painting on his left is a curvy canvas (looks like an outline of the number 8) with a pink background and a nude woman on the front. The top painting is of a landscape with houses in the same form as the one on the left.

Exhibitions

BU Art Galleries Play Host to 2023 MFA Painting and Sculpture, Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition Shows

April 6, 2023

Photo: Joel Christian Gill teaches a new MFA program in Visual Narrative on November 7, 2022. A black man wearing a short-sleeved red collared shirt gesticulates with arms outstretched as he speaks to a student sitting in front of an electric drawing tablet. Other students can be seen in the bright classroom working on similar tablets.

Academics

Comics Artist Joel Christian Gill Launches BU’s New Visual Narrative MFA Degree

February 27, 2023

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Student Life

BU’s Newbury Center Hosts Sixth Annual First-Gen Graduate Student Symposium

February 23, 2023

Photo: A photo of the CCDS on Boston University's campus. It is shown from across the Charles River, among the Boston skyline.

Accolades

U.S. News: Three BU Online Programs among the Nation’s Best, for 10th Year Running

January 23, 2023

Graduate Students

BU Graduate Students Vote to Unionize in Lopsided Approval

December 13, 2022

University News

Union Drive Accelerates among BU Graduate Students

October 5, 2022

Composite image of the three grad students who collaborated to create the grad student guide. At left, Abel Aruan, a young man of color who wears a gray blazer, brown sweater, pink tie and smiles. He has light brown skin and dark black slicked-back hair. At center, a photo of Yuandi Tang (COM’23), an international student from China, who wears glasses with black frames. He wears a blue button-down shirt, smiles, and leans against the exterior of building with rusted steel on the outside. At right, Gizem Kaftan, a youngish Turkish woman with long, crimson hair who smiles and wears a black blouse.

International Students

Are You an International Grad Student? Check Out This Guide

September 14, 2022

Photo of roughly six first-year medical students holding programs and wearing white coats with their names during the ceremony in which they recite the Hippocratic Oath for the first time, signaling their entrance to the study of medicine. The majority of the students in the row are women, White and AAPI, with a few men seen in the background. A white tent is seen behind them.

Student Life

School of Medicine Welcomes Class of 2026 at White Coat Ceremony

August 2, 2022

Collage: (from left) Photos of Edgar Miranda (LAW’22) (from left), Peter Kargbo (SHA’22), and Michelle Eastman (STH’22). Miranda, a young caucasian appearing man, poses for the camera wearing a grey suit. Kargbo, a young black man with a short afro haircut and wearing a black turtleneck and blazer smiles for the camera. Eastman is caught candidly laughing as she wears a red graduation gown.

Commencement 2022

Meet Three Standout Class of 2022 Grad Degree Candidates

May 19, 2022

Watch Now

My Own Boston: Sara Tavakoli (SDM’25)

February 18, 2022

Listen Now

Why Did BU Rename Columbus Day Indigenous Peoples Day?

October 6, 2021

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Things-to-do

To Do Today: After 5 (Ice Cream) Social

June 15, 2021

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Graduate Students

Meet Three Remarkable Class of 2021 Master’s Degree Grads

May 14, 2021

Journalism & Media

Food &: New MET Gastronomy Podcast Explores Food Studies Questions

April 23, 2021

Composite image of headshots of, starting top left and moving clockwise, Eliot Usherenko, Marielis Rosa, Manisha Cole and Jenny (Hyo Jin) Shin (SPH’21).

Accolades

A Token of Gratitude: Student Employees of the Year Celebrated for Their Work

April 12, 2021

Photo of a hand of a student holding a pencil while testing filling out a standardized test answer sheet.

Voices & Opinion

POV: BU Should Join the GRE Exit

November 6, 2020

Members of Boston University administration and former trustees of Newbury College cut the ribbon to officially open the Newbury Center at Boston University which will support first generation students

First-Generation Students

BU to Open New Center to Support First-Generation Students

October 27, 2020

Diane Constantino (Sargent’81), director of BU’s Center for Stuttering Therapy, in her office with client Mason Blake (Wheelock’23). The two stage a therapy session. They both wear masks, Constantino wears a clear mask.

Speech Therapy

Clients Praise Stuttering Treatment at BU’s Center for Stuttering Therapy

October 20, 2020

A portrait photo of Malika Jeffries-EL

Academics

Malika Jeffries-EL: Expanding Graduate Education’s Career Opportunities, and Its Diversity

September 15, 2020

Malika Jeffries-EL: Expanding Graduate Education’s Career Opportunities, and Its Diversity