Each semester dozens of student teams work on projects across each of the courses in the Cross-College Challenge. Below are just a few examples of the types of final deliverables produced for community partners within and beyond BU.


Unheard Voices

Hidden Curricula podcast

Hear students in the XCC course, Unheard Voices, explore how unspoken expectations, cultural norms, and gender stereotypes shape women’s experiences and leadership opportunities in male-dominated professions.

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Slowing Down to Save Lives: Speed Humps in Boston

Slowing Down to Save Lives: Speed Humps in Boston

Discover how T3AM, comprising students Neha Dsouza, Gabriel Gibin Libman, Cameron Hughes, Jarrett Jou, and Stefan Pretorius, address road safety in Boston. Their project, part of the class “A Story on Every Street: Exploring Walkability in Boston,” focuses on the impact of speed humps on slowing traffic and enhancing pedestrian safety across various Boston streets.

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Boosting BlueBikes Usage on BU Campus

Boosting BlueBikes Usage on BU Campus

This featured project, undertaken by BU students, aimed to increase the awareness and usage of BlueBikes across the BU campus as a sustainable transportation solution. The students conducted a comprehensive survey and launched a social campaign to understand the barriers to bike usage and propose strategic solutions.

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Exploring the Art of Puppetry

Exploring the Art of Puppetry

Join Guinevere Keith, a political science major from the College of Arts & Sciences, as she shares her fascinating journey in the course Thinking Through Puppets and Performing Objects.

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Boston Public Gardens Project

Great cities contain great stories–and Boston has more than its share. In this course we excavated some of those stories and craft short documentary films that bring them to life. Students brought a deep-time perspective to these stories by linking places and buildings to comparable remains from one of the great cities of the classical past, either Athens, Rome, or Istanbul (ancient Constantinople). Films were produced in collaboration with the City of Boston’s Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment, with final versions made available to the city for promotional and instructional projects.