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The Boston University Police Department. This week’s crime logs include breaking and entering, elevator entrapment and larceny. HOLLY GUSTAVSEN/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Campus Crime Logs: Oct. 27-Nov. 1

Mary Goetz November 5, 2024
This week's crime logs include an elevator entrapment, a chemical event and a suspicious person.
President Melissa Gilliam gives her inaugural address. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Melissa Gilliam inaugurated as BU’s 11th president, protestors at ceremony

Crystal Yormick September 27, 2024
Melissa Gilliam has officially been inaugurated as Boston University's 11th President.
Boston University’s 11th President, Melissa Gilliam. Gilliam stated it is important for her to work with student leaders on campus, including those from the BU Graduate Workers Union and ResLife Unions. ZACH SCHWARTZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

New BU president pushes for unity, progress ahead of inauguration

Kayla Baltazar September 13, 2024
BU's new president, Melissa Gilliam, sets goals for the future of the University.
A person prepares to give a COVID-19 vaccine at Boston University’s Fitness and Recreation Center in 2021

New study shows BU’s COVID-19 policies prevented transmission on campus

Bailey Scott November 1, 2023
A new study published by Boston University researchers showed BU’s COVID-19 policies were effective in preventing the spread of the disease when the University returned to in-person in spring 2021.
Justice and Equity: Using Language to Ignite Culture Change

Boston University Medical Campus focuses on language to start combating racial inequities

Ava Berger January 28, 2022
BUMC held a panel and keynote to discuss language usage in the medical community in order to support justice and equity.
Boston University’s West Campus. BU administration wrote in an email Sunday the Charles River Campus would close Monday because of an incoming snowstorm. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Charles River Campus closed due to snow, classes continue online

Vanessa Bartlett February 1, 2021
The Charles River Campus was closed Monday and all classes were held remotely due to an expected 12-18 inches of snow, according to a University email announcing the campus closure.
The Boston University Arts Initiative collaborated with BU Gaming Club on Friday to host a Minecraft block party DJed by DJ Zander in a virtual replica of the Tsai Performance Center. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU arts, gaming join forces to host Minecraft block party

Molly Farrar December 9, 2020
BU student, "DJ Zander," performed in the Tsai Performance Center on Friday, but the event wasn’t held in a building. Instead, he played in a Minecraft replica of the auditorium.
COVID-19 testing site at Boston University’s Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering building. Students who show up to University testing sites during cleaning hours or shift changes instead of their designated testing times have caused lines to form outside. ROBERT BRANNING/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Lines form at BU COVID-19 testing centers during cleaning hours

Emily Stevenson October 22, 2020
Short lines have been forming outside of on-campus COVID-19 testing centers during cleaning hours and shift changes in recent weeks, after students largely started off the semester completing their tests within minutes.
Boston University’s School of Medicine. BU students in programs with lab components are concerned about the quality of the University's remote lab experiences. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Health and medical students express concern over quality of remote lab experiences

Erin Regan October 7, 2020
As BU's instructors adapt to the restrictions of hybrid learning, some health and pre-medical students say they are no longer getting the hands-on experience they need to feel prepared for their careers.
Director of the Boston University Precision Diagnostics Center Catherine Klapperich demonstrates how to self-administer a nasal swab test for COVID-19 in a video posted on TikTok. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Frequent COVID-19 testing to occur through Fall

Julia Ermi July 29, 2020
All students learning in person at BU this Fall will be tested for COVID-19 twice a week and will be required to adhere to the new Massachusetts travel guidance, the University announced Monday in an email to the BU community.
The Boston University School of Medicine will host its Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration and luncheon Thursday, which will aim to contextualize King’s advocacy for better health care in the current medicine landscape. YICHEN MA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Medical Campus to hold MLK celebration

Melissa Ellin January 23, 2020
BUSM will host Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration and luncheon Thursday Jan. 23.
East to West: September 30, 2019

East to West: September 30, 2019

JenRacoosin September 30, 2019

In this episode of “East to West,” we cover a campus free speech forum, Boston’s new initiative on surveillance cameras, and the 50th anniversary of BU’s African American Studies program. This...

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