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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh speaks at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in October. StartHub, a new service for start-up businesses, was highlighted by Walsh in the State of the City address on Jan. 13. PHOTO BY EVAN JONES/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

StartHub initiative promotes start-up innovation

Madeleine O’Keefe January 22, 2015

Just as its residents resolve to lay off fast food and turn off Netflix, Boston itself is making some changes of its own. In his State of the City address on Jan. 13, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced...

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, spoke to School of Management students about concepts from his book, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.” PHOTO BY JACQUI BUSICK/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel lectures on his book at BUzz Lab event Tuesday

Olivia Deng December 11, 2014

Competitive markets are not the best fodder for innovation. Pursuing higher education is a deterministic concept that has been engrained into students’ minds. Those are just some of the unusual ideas...

Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine found that repeated contact, education and individualized feedback from doctors and nurses might increase vaccination rates for human papillomavirus. GRAPHIC BY DANIEL GUAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BUSM study highlights strategies to promote HPV vaccinations

Olivia Deng December 2, 2014

About 79 million Americans are currently infected with human papillomavirus, a commonly overlooked sexually transmitted infection, with an estimated 14 million more infected each year, according to the...

GAGNE-MAYNARD: The Language of Finance

GAGNE-MAYNARD: The Language of Finance

Benjamin Gagne-Maynard December 2, 2014

Maybe it was because I was sick of walking into the Boston University School of Management and feeling like an outsider, or maybe it was because I was sick of trying to figure out what the Occupy Wall...

Massachusetts gas prices have fallen 3 cents this week, which is a trend of decreasing prices at pumps across the country, according to a Monday press release from AAA Southern New England. PHOTO VIA FREEPHOTO.COM

Massachusetts gas prices continue to fall below $3 per gallon

Alexandra DelloStritto November 20, 2014

After years of high gas prices, drivers in Massachusetts will be able to fill up their tanks without breaking the bank. Gas prices in Massachusetts fell 3 cents last week, according to a Monday press...

A poll released Thursday by Gallup suggests that U.S. business majors are the least likely to receive emotional support during college. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MAE DAVIS

Business majors less likely to receive support from professors, study says

Mina Corpuz November 10, 2014

While a recent Gallup poll suggests business majors are less likely to receive mentorship from professors, several students studying business at Boston University agree that there is not a lack of support...

Members of Boston University web development club Open Web discuss their website design plans for the Public Relations Student Society of America. PHOTO COURTESY OF IVAN UVAROV

New BU club aspires to help nonprofits through web development

Ella Torres November 5, 2014

What started out as a motivational bribe helped kick start Boston University’s newest and only web development club, Open Web. Ivan Uvarov, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the co-founder...

The Boston University Bhangra dance team performs at a competition at Ohio State University in February. PHOTO COURTESY OF BU BHANGRA

BU Bhangra dance team to perform at Berklee concert for Oscar-winning composer Friday

Kimberly Rendon October 23, 2014

The Boston University Bhangra dance team will perform alongside Academy Award winning composer A.R. Rahman at the “A.R. Rahman Meets Berklee” concert in conjunction with the Berklee College of Music...

The Mobile Health in Rehabilitation Conference, organized by the Boston Rehabilitation Outcomes Measurement Center, will take place Thursday and is available to students via live streaming on the Boston ROC website. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY ZABOSKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU to hold Mobile Health in Rehabilitation Conference Thursday

Becca DeGregorio October 21, 2014

Wake up. Grab coffee. Go to class. Commute home. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. The hustle and bustle of daily life can serve as one of physical health’s greatest detractors. Fortunately, the growth of mobile health,...

The executive board of the female networking organization Ellevate Boston University Chapter poses at SPLASH in September. PHOTO COURTESY OF ELLEVATE BU CHAPTER

Women InBusiness: Ellevate BU prepares women for professional world

Alexandra DelloStritto October 20, 2014

This is part of a bi-weekly series of profiles about women in business. Of the 500 companies on the 2014 Fortune 500 list, 24 have female CEOs. In 2013, women held 14.6 percent of Fortune 500 executive...

GRAPHIC BY CLINTON NGUYEN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Use of Bitcoin expands in Boston despite reliability, solvency issues

Olivia Deng October 16, 2014

Bitcoin, a digital currency created by a person or group of people under the alias Satoshi Nakamoto, is maturing. BitPay, a Bitcoin payment service provider, has over 40,000 businesses and organizations...

Boston University School of Management sophomores David Szczepankiewicz (left) and Jose Godoy (right) are up-and-coming disc jockeys in the Boston club scene who perform under the monikers of Davvid and Godoii. PHOTO COURTESY OF DAVID SZCZEPANKIEWICZ

BU DJs Godoii, Davvid to headline Crush! University on Thursday

Shannon Zeng October 8, 2014

While a portion of the college population go through penniless internships to earn a decent spot in their career professions, Godoii and Davvid — stage names for Boston University disc jockeys Jose Godoy...

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