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Video: What Classes Are You Most Excited About?

As the fall semester picks up speed, we hit the streets of Comm Ave to ask students what class they’re most excited to attend

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Safety 101: BUPD Offers Tips for How to Keep You and Your Property Safe

Be aware of your surroundings and never leave items like laptops unattended

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James Johnson Wins Fulbright Scholarship

Boston University history professor heads to Venice for research on Napoleon’s wars

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Two BU Faculty Will Be Honored for Outstanding Teaching Monday

Gitner Award to CAS’ Elizabeth Co, Provost’s Scholar-Teacher Award to ENG’s Lei Tian

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A BU Guide for Parents of International Students

There are lots of people at BU dedicated to helping international students find their way in a new place. And parents, they’re here for you, too

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COM Alum Earns Emmy Nomination for Helming the Season Two Finale of The Penguin

Jennifer Getzinger is up for Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie at Sunday night’s ceremony

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Building a curriculum for teens, by teens: students from a Roxbury school met with researchers all summer to learn about opioid overdose prevention

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Interning at NASA Fulfills a Lifetime Ambition for This CAS Student

Aashi Parikh participated in the agency’s Student Airborne Research Program, learning how NASA scientists conduct research—and performing fieldwork of her own

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This BU Student Spent His Summer Working in a Chinese Garment Factory and Biking Across Mongolia. Here’s What He Learned

Grant Corbett (Questrom’26) wanted an adventure and to learn something new

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Curing Heart Attacks, Replacing Diseased Organs—Christopher Chen Is Engineering a Healthier Future

Healing from a knee injury sent the BU biomedical engineer on a winding road of discovery and innovation

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US Navy Rear Admiral Jacquelyn McClelland (MET’06) Visits BU

US Navy Rear Admiral Jacquelyn McClelland (MET’06) visited campus September 11 to speak to Metropolitan College’s Criminal Justice Administration & Ethics class at the Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, taught by Assistant Professor Shea Cronin. McClelland talked about her Navy career and her experiences with national security and as a special agent in the Internal Revenue Service.

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Two BU experts studying grid solutions and sustainable energy transitions say that tech companies racing to build more AI could make data centers more energy efficient

As the fall semester picks up speed, we hit the streets of Comm Ave to ask students what class they’re most excited to attend

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Be aware of your surroundings and never leave items like laptops unattended

Boston University history professor heads to Venice for research on Napoleon’s wars

Gitner Award to CAS’ Elizabeth Co, Provost’s Scholar-Teacher Award to ENG’s Lei Tian

There are lots of people at BU dedicated to helping international students find their way in a new place. And parents, they’re here for you, too

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Building a curriculum for teens, by teens: students from a Roxbury school met with researchers all summer to learn about opioid overdose prevention

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