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Innovate@BU hosts 21st New Venture Competition for social impacts

Divya Sood April 15, 2021
Twelve student ventures will compete Friday for grant money to fund their innovative ventures.
Boston University’s school of Theology hosted the webinar “The Queer Art of Reading and Resilience: Uplifting BIPOC Trans Life and Spirit” Thursday, which included six BIPOC transgender panelists. COURTESY OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

STH celebrates resilience of transgender communities

Julia Furnari November 6, 2020

LGBTQ individuals experience higher rates of violence and death than their heterosexual peers, and this reality can take a toll. To celebrate trans resilience and address topics such as transphobia...

Damariz Itzel Posadas Aparicio, a Master of Theological Studies candidate at Boston University’s School of Theology and recipient of the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals or “DACA” program, spoke at a virtual panel on Tuesday hosted by the Latin American Studies Department on immigration reform. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU professors host ‘DACA’ panel, call for immigration reform

Yiran Yu November 2, 2020
Millions of Americans will have decided the next president by Tuesday night, and in an election as heavily contested as this year’s, a number of socio-political issues prevail on voters’ minds, including that of DACA.
Boston University's Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism (CGSA) submitted a proposal to the BU's administration in February pushing for gender-neutral bathrooms on campus. PHOTO BY RACHEL SHARPLES/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Gender-inclusive bathrooms to be constructed in the GSU

Lillian Ilsley-Greene September 6, 2018
An independent architecture firm specializing in installing gender-inclusive bathrooms in pre-existing spaces will break ground on Boston University’s first, specifically gender-inclusive bathroom in October.
Boston University School of Theology alumnus Don Messer speaks about taking students to the marches in Selma, Alabama in 1965 at “Selma at 50, Ferguson Today” on Tuesday. PHOTO BY ERIN BILLINGS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Panel discusses Selma 50th anniversary, Ferguson

Stephanie Pagones March 4, 2015

A panel of theologians convened Tuesday in Boston University’s School of Theology to reflect on the history of the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama on its 50th anniversary in conjunction with...

The Ferguson forum held at Marsh Chapel Wednesday evening addressed student and faculty perspectives on the August 9 shooting of Michael Brown that happened in Ferguson, Missouri. PHOTO BY KYRA LOUIE/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Panelists at Marsh Chapel address Ferguson shooting

Mina Corpuz September 4, 2014

University Chaplain Brother Larry Whitney hosted a forum Wednesday night at Marsh Chapel to open dialogue on campus about the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, a national controversy that has sparked...

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