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Seven-Year Liberal Arts and Medical Education Program stops accepting applicants

Ava Berger September 25, 2022
Boston University Seven-Year Liberal Arts/Medical Education program has stopped admitting students for the 2022-2023 application cycle, final decision regarding dissolution planned to be made this within a month.
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BU medical student creates online space to discuss mental health

Emma Hagert March 25, 2022
Kendall Jenkins, a BUSM student, started the new BU chapter of “If You’re Reading This.”
The Boston Medical Center. Three Boston University School of Medicine students began a campaign and published a petition Feb. 5 to end the universal shackling of incarcerated patients at the Boston Medical Center, as well as other hospitals. BAYLE VINES/DFP STAFF

BU medical students call on Boston Medical Center to humanize care, stop universal shackling of incarcerated patients

Eden Mor March 15, 2022
Students at BUSM created a campaign and petition to put an end to the universal shackling of incarcerated patients at BMC.
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BU hosts symposium on immigrant health care, advocates health equity for all

Yiran Yu April 16, 2021
For World Chagas Day, BU experts spoke at a symposium on the importance of immigrant health care.
cancerous skin cell

BU researchers discover potential therapeutic agent for melanoma

Caroline Bowden March 9, 2021
BU researchers from the School of Medicine published a paper on the drug YK-4-279 — which could have the potential to treat melanoma in patients.
New England Female Medical College. The City of Boston celebrated Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day Monday to honor the first Black female physician in the U.S. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston honors Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day — first Black woman in the US to receive medical degree

Anne Jonas February 9, 2021
Crumpler, an alumna of BUSM, became the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States in 1864. She went on to publish the first medical book written by a Black physician in the country.
Boston Medical Center. The BMC received its first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 14. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Boston Medical Center receives its first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

Juncheng Quan December 20, 2020
The vaccine arrived at BMC, which is affiliated with BU's School of Medicine, on Dec. 14.
Boston University hosted the second installment in this Fall’s “Remote and Hybrid Teaching and Learning Lightning Talks,” allowing professors to share their experiences under the University’s hybrid learning model. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Professors share experiences with LfA environment, voice positive outcomes

Madeline Humphrey December 10, 2020

While college campuses would normally be bustling during the fall, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything from the way students communicate to the way they learn. At Boston University, that’s no...

Applications to the Boston University School of Medicine increased by 26 percent this year. JINGYI LIN/ DFP FILE

BU graduate schools of medicine, public health, dentistry see spike in applications

Emily Stevenson November 3, 2020
BUSM saw a 26-percent increase in applications this year in a phenomenon likely related to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Kristen Goodell, associate dean of Admissions at BUSM.
The Boston Red Cloaks, a group of women who dress as handmaids and advocate for abortion rights, gathered on the steps of the Massachusetts State House Sunday to condemn Amy Coney Barrett’s expected confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. SHANNON DAMIANO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Red Cloaks protest for abortion rights, against Barrett’s confirmation

Daniel Kool October 26, 2020
Speakers called for the swift passage of the Act to Remove Obstacles and Expand Abortion Access, or ROE Act, in Massachusetts. Behind them stood a wall of women dressed as Supreme Court justices, Lady Liberty and — most prominently — handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel and series “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University began researching the novel coronavirus in mid-March in order to develop a vaccine and analyze how the virus is spread. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

BU labs, researchers and students fight COVID-19

Ellie Yeo April 29, 2020
The BU research community have committed themselves to combating the coronavirus since the campus shutdown announced on March 17. Medical students, lab technicians and professors have joined an international movement of private institutions dedicating their resources and expertise to pandemic response.
As people are sleeping more in quarantine, they are reporting experiencing more vivid dreams, which experts attribute to higher cortisol levels and emotion-associated neurotransmitters. FALON MORAN/ DFP FILE

Coronavirus brings unseen effects even when sleeping

Daily Free Press Staff April 28, 2020
BU experts share that the information people take in during the day often then appears in their dreams, allowing their fears and stresses to be communicated in sleep.
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