The Top 10 Most-Read Stories on BU Today in 2023

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2023 IN REVIEW

The Top 10 Most-Read Stories on BU Today in 2023

December 19, 2023

BU Today staff

Janice Checchio

If there is a trend defining BU Today’s most-read stories in 2023, we can’t find it. UFOs? Check. COVID? Check. Crime? Check. The economy, BU’s new president? Check and check. All we do know is that you stuck with us all year, reading our daily email, searching us out on Google, finding us on X or Instagram or LinkedIn or Facebook.

Thanks for reading. These are the top 10 most-read stories BU Today published in 2023.

Photo: Overhead shot of two rapid covid tests laying on a light blue background. One test is positive and the other is negative. — Photo by etorres69/iStock

1

Are You a Novid, or COVID Super-Dodger—Someone Who’s Never Had COVID? Science Has Some Clues Why

Photo: A ufo is shown flying over some trees on a cloudy, foggy day. It is shown as a small shadow hovering over the nature scene. — Photo by ursatii/iStock

2

Is the Government Concealing UFO Craft and Dead Extraterrestrials?

Photo: In the center of the photo, a bouquet of flowers wrapped in plastic and pink paper. They are laying on a dirt ground and are in front of a stone with the number 47 in metal on it. Behind the rock, there is a tree trunk to the right of the photo. — Photo by David L. Ryan/the Boston Globe via Getty Images

3

A Mother Charged with Killing Her Children: A Possible Explanation for the Unthinkable

Photo: A black signs that reads "svb" in lowercase silver letters is shown. — Photo by Boris Roessler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Imagess

4

Why Are Banks Failing and Does That Herald Another Financial Crisis?

Two glasses filled with mixed alcoholic drinks on a wooden bar top — Photo by Susie Burleson via Unsplash

5

Do You Think Your Drink Was Spiked? How to Recognize the Symptoms and Take the Right Steps

A man reaches to touch a detail of the 22-foot-high bronze sculpture, The Embrace, a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, in the Boston Common, January 10. The sculpture, consisting of four intertwined arms, was inspired by a photo of the Kings embracing when MLK learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The statue is to be unveiled during ceremonies Friday, January 13. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) — Photo by Steven Senne via AP

6

The Embrace, a Monument Celebrating MLK, to Be Unveiled on Boston Common

A photo of Stuvi II on Boston University's campus against a sunny sky background — Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

7

StuVi 2 Community Shaken by Jumping Death of Non–BU Affiliated Person

Photo: A black woman with short hair wearing a black blazer over a black shirt with a pearl necklace, smiling for a portrait in front of a blurred out cityscape — Photo by Janice Checchio

8

Boston University Names Melissa L. Gilliam 11th President

Photo of Ibram X. Kendi, a Black man with with long dreadlocks sits in a blue suit looking out a window. — Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

9

As BU Launches Inquiry into Center for Antiracist Research, Interim President Freeman Explains Goal and Reasoning

Photo: David Zaslav gives a speech at a podium at Boston University's 2023 commencement, while a sea of students look on — Photo by Boston University Photography

10

POV: A Lesson from BU’s 150th Commencement

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