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Aerial shot of Marsh Plaza and Comm Ave. Drone footage vividly capturing how BU has been transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Video shot by Above Summit, edited by Chris Palmer, BU Productions

Campus Life

It Looked Like the Apocalypse: Drone Video Captured How COVID Emptied BU Campuses

March 12, 2025

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Student Life

Photos from 2020: A Reminder of How COVID Transformed BU

March 11, 2025

Photo: Mackenzie Fallon of Student Health Services gives a vaccine to Alexander Bade, a white man with blonde hair and a black shirt, during an immunization clinic.

University News

BU Will Provide COVID Boosters, Flu Shots to Students, Faculty, and Staff

September 19, 2024

Photo: Schoolchildren running into the school building wearing backpacks.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Is It OK to Stop Worrying about COVID?

September 3, 2024

Photo: A stock image of a individual taking a COVID test.

University News

Boston University Drops Five-Day Isolation Requirement for COVID

March 28, 2024

Photo: Sandro Galea, a man with stubble, wears a white button up with a dark tie in an office-setting with books lining the wall behind him. He poses for the photo with a serious face.

Public Health

Lessons for Public Health from the Pandemic

January 12, 2024

Photo: A person in a mask and glasses raises the sleeve of their shirt to receive a shot from a healthcare professional

University News

BU Will Offer COVID Vaccine Boosters to Students, Faculty, and Staff

September 19, 2023

Photo: A young woman wearing a long-sleeved red shirt and a white KN95 mask, gesticulates as she talks in a classroom.

University News

COVID Is on the Rise Again—What You Need to Know

August 29, 2023

Photo: Two men who appear to be in their mid-30's talk and hold beers at a recent corporate event. The men are wearing business casual attire.

Things To Do

The Week Ahead: April 24 to 30

April 21, 2023

Photo: Jay Eddy (CGS’23) (left), the writer, composer and performer of Alligator-A-Phobia in 3D!, clowning around with director Shamus (CFA’23) on set. A woman with red hair and wearing a purple jump suit is shown mid-air as she jumps with a large, blow-up alligator in her arms. To he right, a man with dark brown curly hair and wearing a teal shirt and jeans peaks out from behind a set piece window. He has puppet alligators on his hands as looks to the woman to his left.

Theatre

Alligator-a-Phobia in 3-D! at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Chomps on Our Anxieties

April 6, 2023

Collection site specialist Jessica Sandberg, a white woman wearing a surgical mask and blue gloves, guides a masked visitor through the COVID test collection process at the Rajen Kilachand Center.

University News

BU to Drop COVID Vaccine Requirement for Most Beginning This Summer

April 4, 2023

Photo: A red background with Boston University and Public Health text. Two people sit down on a stage, one a white man in a black suit and a white woman in a black outfit with a neon pink blazer. They sit between a small table with a black tablecloth over it.

Coronavirus

CDC’s Rochelle Walensky Visits BU’s School of Public Health

March 31, 2023

Photo: Two people, both masked, handle an orange and white, sickly-looking chicken. the person on the right is in full protective gear including hair net and holds a testing kit in their hands. The other stands by and watches as the chicken is handled.

Infectious Diseases

Bird Flu Is Making Headlines but Doesn’t Threaten a Pandemic…Yet

March 14, 2023

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

Public Health

Are You a Novid—Someone Who’s Never Had COVID? Science Has Some Clues Why

January 23, 2023

Photo of Uwe Beffert’s cell biology class September 2, 2021 in Morse Auditorium. Mask are required indoors, but distancing is not. Students sit in the rows with their notebooks open and look towards Beffert who wears a black jacket and jeans.

University News

Masking “Strongly Recommended” in Crowded Indoor Spaces as COVID, Flu, Other Viruses Surge

January 12, 2023

Nurses wait for patients outside Boston Medical Center during the early days of the pandemic, March 20, 2020. The staff inside the triage tent assessed patients’ symptoms and determined whether they could receive care through BMC’s influenza-like illness clinic (ILI) for more moderate symptoms, or if they needed to go to the Emergency Department for more serious conditions. The COVID-positive patient census at BMC skyrocketed from 22 patients on March 24, 2020, to 121 patients in just eight days, and reached 219 by April 9.

Coronavirus

Addressing the Ethical Issues at the Heart of the COVID-19 Pandemic

December 15, 2022

A child taking a math test. Photo by Greg Rosenke/Unsplash

Voices & Opinion

POV: Plummeting Math Achievement Scores Confirm Pandemic’s Impact on US Public School Students

November 17, 2022

Portrait of Asian mother checking her sick sons temperature, looking at thermometer and touching forehead of her son.

Health & Medicine

BU Will Hold Flu and COVID Clinics Next Week, While Bracing for RSV

November 8, 2022

Photo of pedestrian traffic. Students come and go, some masked and some unmasked, on Comm Ave.

Campus Life

Video: To Mask or Not to Mask

September 21, 2022

Photo of students moving back to BU's campus . A blurry overhead action shot shows students moving a large yellow cart and bed supplies as they move into a dorm building.

Move-in

Move-in 2022: What You Need to Know

August 23, 2022

Move-in 2022: What You Need to Know