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Giving

Giving Tuesday: an Opportunity to Help Build a Better World

December 2, 2024

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Academics

Undergraduate Research Study Project Explores Do-It-Yourself Extremism

March 26, 2024

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Academics

Many BU Students Study with ChatGPT. A Few Admit Cheating with It

March 18, 2024

Carrie Welter (CAS’23) as Rousseau (from left), Nic Rowe (CAS’23) as Shakespeare, and Bruce Hallgren (CAS’22) as Dido rehearse for a play written by Alexandra Mascarello (CAS’23) that defends humanities studies. Photos by Mohan Ge (COM’22)

Performance

Our STEM Era Needs the Humanities, Undergrad’s Play Argues

April 20, 2022

Photo of a group of students gathered in the MFA in 2018. Behind the students are two large works of art in ornate frames. A semi -circle of students listen as one student presents their work of choice.

Arts & Culture

Visiting Ancient Worlds Virtually through Student-Made Videos

November 20, 2020

Photo of Sabrina Scotti (CFA’20) in a light blue dress holding Katamari Damacy REROLL, one of the children’s video games she studied as part of her an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program–funded research into whether games use diverse music styles to further music education. She smiles and bushes are seen in the background.

Music

Do Children’s Media Serve Up a Properly Diverse Musical Diet?

August 27, 2020

Lev Paasche-Orlow (CAS’22) poses for a photo outside of planned parenthood

UROP

Undergrad’s UROP Project: Local Abortion Protesters Rely on Restraint, and Unexpected Help

December 16, 2019

Kinh Vu drums on a plastic bucket on Comm Ave

Music

Kinh Vu’s Journey from Vietnam Orphan to BU Music Professor

October 23, 2019

Chelsea Bray poses for a portrait with cotton milling machines in the historical Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, MA said to be an inspiration for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

University News

A Christmas Carol: Made in Massachusetts?

December 18, 2018

Student Madeline Bucci and College of Fine Arts professor Karin Hendricks sit back-to-back in front of a blackboard with music notes written in chalk.

Education

Suzuki Method: Respect and Repetition the Best Teachers

December 3, 2018

SheHacks Boston

Employment

SheHacks Boston Student Organizers Are #makingthenewnormal

January 26, 2018

John Celenza, new UROP director. Photo by Cydney Scott

University News

John Celenza Named New UROP Head

October 12, 2017

Professor Hahm and Yujin Kim looking at laptop screen.

UROP

The Problem Parenting Behind Asian Women’s Suicide Rate

December 8, 2016

Research

“Spiritual Resistance” to the Holocaust

October 21, 2016

David Baylies

Arts on Campus

Building a Better Electronic Trumpet

August 4, 2016

Alexander Golob

Arts & Culture

CFA Student Artist Turns Stairwells, Hall into Public Art

March 28, 2016

A UROP student has coded a robot that can "think" on its own, moving about and avoiding obstacles without a human steering it.

Science & Technology

UROP Student’s Project: a Thinking Robot

February 17, 2016

UROP

Does Gender Affect a Person’s Attention to Art?

February 5, 2015

Boston University BU, Victoria Pae, nightmares Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program UROP study,

University News

Research to Keep You Awake: Nightmares

December 2, 2014

Kaymakçı Citadel, Turkey, Christopher Roosevelt, Christina Luke, photogrammetry

Science & Technology

Picturing a Long-Gone Citadel

November 9, 2014

Picturing a Long-Gone Citadel