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The Boston Women’s Fund promotes women-led, community-driven initiatives that aim to achieve economic, social and racial equality. COURTESY OF BOSTON WOMEN’S FUND

Boston Women’s Fund encourages diverse youth to drive change in local politics

Madeline Humphrey November 13, 2020

In the business world, women receive a reported 7 percent of venture funds for their startups, according to a Fundera statistic, even as more are pursuing entrepreneurial success in the United States. The...

In the third installment of the Boston Playwright Theater’s “BPT Talks” series, BPT playwright Cayenne Douglass took her audience behind the scenes of her thesis play “Beasts.” COURTESY OF BOSTON PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER

Student playwright captures complex familial bonds in thesis project

Molly Farrar November 12, 2020
BU's Boston Playwrights’ Theatre is hosting weekly “BPT Talks,” during which a third-year Master of Fine Arts playwright at BPT discusses their latest work.
The Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program building on Bay State Road. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to constraints on research opportunities and hands-on learning for undergraduate students. CONNYR LU/ DFP FILE

How a pandemic transformed laboratory research at BU

Rachel Do September 9, 2020
It has now been months since BU and other universities first instituted remote learning and reduced capacity in classrooms, and research opportunities for undergraduates this semester have been no exception to such changes.
A participant, running for the Lingzi Foundation, races down Boylston Street Monday during the Boston Marathon. PHOTO BY ALEXANDRA WIMLEY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Lu Lingzi scholarship fund to select first recipients, continue growth

Ellen Cranley April 21, 2015

Following the two-year anniversary of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260, including Boston University graduate student Lu Lingzi, the scholarship fund...

Attendees enter Marsh Chapel Sunday for a memorial service for Daryl Carr, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student who died in February. PHOTO BY BRIAN SONG/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Memorial service remembers Ph.D student Daryl Carr

Hannah Libby April 20, 2015

Boston University students and faculty gathered Sunday afternoon at Marsh Chapel to memorialize Daryl Carr, a student pursuing a sociology doctoral degree in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

A study published Friday by the New Delphi Project from the University of Southern California found a decrease in tenure and tenure-track faculty and an increase in adjunct and temporary faculty. GRAPHIC BY SAMANTHA GROSS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Non-tenure faculty on the increase, study shows

Molly Minniti February 26, 2015

Postsecondary institutions are increasingly hiring more non-tenure, part-time faculty and fewer tenure and tenure-track faculty, according to a Friday study commissioned by the University of Southern...

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