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University News
University Makes New Contract Offer to Graduate Students
Proposal aimed to end strike with increased PhD stipends and childcare support
Business & Law
BU Experts on Boeing’s Legal and Technical Troubles
Crashes, technical problems, and legal scandals have become a nightmare for storied aerospace company
Things-to-do
To Do Today: Get Your Groove on with the Tito Puente Latin Music Series
The six-show music series brings numerous genres of Latin music to parks around Boston
Latest Headlines
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Does It Matter if Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Doesn’t Take Maternity Leave?
Cofounder of the BU Center of Excellence in Maternal & Child Health says the issue of women and maternity leave remains complicated
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Questrom Student Helps Women Artisans in India Become Entrepreneurs
Rising senior Simran Seth comanages the nonprofit Project Meraki, the result of a respected program run by Dior and UNESCO
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BU White Coat Ceremony Welcomes 141 Students to the Profession of Medicine
Members of entering Class of 2028 were born in 18 different countries and hail from 30 states
August 6, 2024
EVERYTHING GUIDE
Your Everything Guide to Studying Abroad at BU
Should I do it? When’s the deadline? What are the most popular programs? (Hints: G’day, how’s your French, and do you like fish and chips?)
Today’s Close-up
An EPIC Task
Working at the Engineering Product Innovation Center July 24 on a tiny segment of a medical device for heart surgeries: College of Engineering second year PhD student Leo Zamora.
Photo by Cydney Scott
Politics
What Does Tim Walz Bring to Kamala Harris’ Ticket?
The “Midwestern dad” joins Harris as a running mate, balancing out key demographics, say BU scholars in political science and history
Dance
Opening Doors: Ellice Patterson (Questrom’17)
Founder and executive director of Abilities Dance Boston
2024 Olympics
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From Comm Ave to Paris—Ally Hammel’s Journey to the Olympics
Former BU field hockey star is set to become the first Terrier to represent Team USA in Olympic field hockey
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COM Alum Will Bring the Summer Olympic Games to Social Media for NBCUniversal
Art director Brian Forte will be in Paris with dozens of creators
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BU Radiologist Heads to the Paris Summer Olympics
Ali Guermazi will join team of physicians treating injured athletes
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BU Alum in Paris Keeping Olympians’ Minds Sharp and Healthy
Karen Lo (Wheelock’13) on how she gives elite athletes a mental edge
July 29, 2024
Aging and Climate
Feeling the Heat? Researchers Say Heat Waves Will Put More Older Adults in Danger
More hot days put an additional 250 million older people at risk as climate change accelerates
Books
An Alum’s New Memoir Recounts Six Decades of Beatlemania
Debbie Gendler got to know each of the Beatles as secretary of the New York fan club chapter in the 1960s and is now an expert on the Fab Four’s early years
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Arts & Culture
- To Do Today: Explore the Boston Lights Show at the Franklin Park Zoo
- What’s Hot in Music August: New Albums, Local Concerts
- To Do Today: Free Outdoor Screening of Godzilla 2000: Millennium on the Rose Kennedy Greenway
Business & Law
- What Does Tim Walz Bring to Kamala Harris’ Ticket?
- BU Experts on Boeing’s Legal and Technical Troubles
- Does It Matter if Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Doesn’t Take Maternity Leave?
Campus Life
- Questrom Student Helps Women Artisans in India Become Entrepreneurs
- BU White Coat Ceremony Welcomes 141 Students to the Profession of Medicine
- Photos of the Month: A Look Back at July at BU
Health & Medicine
- Does It Matter if Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Doesn’t Take Maternity Leave?
- BU Alum in Paris Keeping Olympians’ Minds Sharp and Healthy
- Was the Shooting of Donald Trump “Political Violence” or Something Else?
In the City
- To Do Today: Get Your Groove On with the Tito Puente Latin Music Series
- To Do Today: CLUE: A Walking Mystery
- To Do Today: Boston Parks Movie Nights
Science & Technology
- Vermont Will Charge Big Oil for Past Climate Change. Should Massachusetts Follow?
- Cloud Computing Platform CloudWeaver Wins at Spring 2024 Spark! Demo Day
- Boston Teens Pitch Biotech Concepts to BU “Investors” at Biological Design Center’s STEM Pathways Event
Sports
- BU Alum in Paris Keeping Olympians’ Minds Sharp and Healthy
- From Comm Ave to Paris—Ally Hammel’s Journey to the Olympics
- Artem Dunks Is a BU PhD
University News
- BU White Coat Ceremony Welcomes 141 Students to the Profession of Medicine
- Penny Bishop, Adolescent Development Scholar, Appointed New Dean of Wheelock College
- BU’s Framingham Heart Study Gets New Director
Voices & Opinion
- BU Experts on Boeing’s Legal and Technical Troubles
- POV: What Is the “Right” Population for Earth, and Who Should Decide?
- Has the US Hit the “Soft Landing” of Controlling Inflation without a Recession?