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Boston University Removes the Myles Standish Name from Dorm
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Is AI Biased against Some Groups and Spreading Misinformation and Extreme Views?
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BU Researcher Named a 2024 Hertz Fellow; Award Honors “Innovators with the Greatest Potential”
Biophysicist and recent alum Emmy Blumenthal wins prestigious fellowship that comes with up to $250,000 in funding
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Leading Womanist Ethicist and Theologian Named New MLK Professor of Religion and Black Studies at STH
Emilie Townes says she hopes to foster conversations in an increasingly polarized culture
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Current Issue
Winter-Spring 2024
Commencement
Photo Essay: Behind the Scenes at a BU Commencement
A glimpse of what it takes to pull off more than 150 events for 75,000 people
Commencement 2024
BU Celebrates 7,600 Graduates at Buoyant 151st Commencement
Ceremony includes small student walkout over war in Gaza and a farewell to President ad interim Kenneth Freeman
Best Of
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Aging ReimaginedThe Secrets of Living to 100
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Aging ReimaginedTheir Second Acts
Browse Sections
Arts & Culture
- Reading List: What the Pandemic Revealed
- Spreading Art Appreciation
- Restoring the “Black Angels” to Medical History
Business & Economics
- Opening Doors: Michele Courton Brown (CAS’83)
- COM’s Newest Journalism Grad Took Her Time
- Tuesday’s Snowstorm Was a Bust in Boston. Here’s Why It Was So Hard to Predict
Class Notes
See all storiesEducation & Social Service
- One Good Deed: Christine Kannler (CAS’96, SPH’00, CAMED’00)
- My Big Idea: Blending Wildlife Conservation and Human Welfare
- Opening Doors: Janet Krause Jones (COM’74), cofounder of the Single Mom Project
Feedback
- Feedback: Readers Weigh In on BU’s New President, COM’s New Expert on Misinformation, and What’s Really Dividing the Nation
- Feedback: Readers Weigh In on Boston’s New Police Commissioner, Alum Michael Cox, and BU’s Research and Discovery
- Feedback: “We Are Not Way Past” Systemic Racism
Government & Law
- Could Boston Be the Next City to Impose Congestion Pricing?
- Campus Reacts and Responds to Israel-Hamas War
- Alum Beata Coloyan Is Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s “Eyes and Ears” in Boston Neighborhoods
Health & Medicine
- One Good Deed: Christine Kannler (CAS’96, SPH’00, CAMED’00)
- A Guide to Black Women’s Health
- Fruitful First Year for Center on Forced Displacement
Science & Technology
- Could Boston Be the Next City to Impose Congestion Pricing?
- Alum Has Traveled the World to Witness Total Solar Eclipses
- Opening Doors: Rhonda Harrison (ENG’98,’04, GRS’04)
Sports
- Former Terriers Power New Professional Women’s Hockey League
- Meet Brad Cashew: Pro Wrestler and Local Legend Fans Go Nuts Over
- When an Unknown Coach Named Rick Pitino Helped Lift BU Men’s Basketball to New Heights
Tributes
- Six BU Alums to Remember This Memorial Day
- Remembering COM’s David Anable, CAS’ John Stone
- “Intellectual Brilliance and Brilliant Kindness”
University News
- Campus Reacts and Responds to Israel-Hamas War
- William Fairfield Warren Society Inducts New Members
- STH’s Walter Fluker Honored by Roosevelt Institute