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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

‘A Modern Farewell’ had me cry-laughing all over again

Samantha Genzer March 31, 2025
The documentary reminds us that this show was not just about comedy. It was about relationships, the memories and the beautifully chaotic love that makes a family feel real. 
Gianna Horcher | Graphic Artist

What’s love got to do with it? Unconventional romance movies for Valentine’s Day

Ruby Voge February 12, 2025
Sometimes, we’re looking for something a little different that breaks outside of the mold of the traditional boy-meets-girl tropes and plot beats. So, here are five — actually, seven — Valentine’s Day movies that range from slightly unique to unequivocally odd. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

‘Nerdy Prudes Must Die!’ is StarKid’s newest horror-comedy masterpiece | You Had Me At ‘It’s Gay’

Kal Hawley November 12, 2023
“Nerdy Prudes Must Die” is just as outspoken and hilarious as its name suggests. It’s the fifth installment of the Hatchetfield series from StarKid Productions. Like its predecessors, it’s a horror-comedy musical set in the fictional town of Hatchetfield, except this time it’s a parody of 90s’ teen-slashers, complete with the high school stereotypes and questionable horniness.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

‘Lessons in Chemistry’: The science of sexism

Daniela Cejudo Curiel October 17, 2023
Cooking, battling sexism and a host of perplexing chemistry terms are just a few phrases to describe the first episode of the Apple TV+ series, “Lessons in Chemistry.”
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: How we reward ‘peace’ efforts can be problematic

Max Ferrandino February 10, 2021
Peace is hard to define and even harder to celebrate. Giving a prize for peace is difficult regardless of what criteria you use.
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...

Boston University professors are administering exams online this semester in accordance with the Learn from Anywhere model. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students and faculty reflect on online assessments under LfA

Juncheng Quan December 4, 2020
With the Fall semester nearing its end, Boston University students and faculty are reflecting on the ways academics have changed since the pandemic began earlier this year. One of the biggest differences for BU students was the implementation of Learn from Anywhere, which greatly changed how tests and quizzes can be taken.
Boston’s first income-tiered electric vehicle car share program will launch in Roxbury soon led by an E4TheFuture initiative. COURTESY OF MIKESPHOTOS VIA PIXABAY

Electric car-share program to launch in Roxbury

Allison Pirog September 29, 2020
The program is expected to launch before the end of the year, said Susan Buchan, director of energy projects at E4TheFuture. The grant covers four cars, and E4TheFuture hopes to add three or four more.
Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences. In an email to CAS department chairs, Joseph Bizup, associate dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies, discouraged professors from discussing the pandemic with students when communicating about their course formats for the Fall. BRITTANY CHANG/ DFP FILE

CAS professors asked to self-censor in communications with students

Katarzyna Jezak August 3, 2020
A memo sent to CAS department chairs asked professors to avoid references to the ongoing pandemic and to treat LfA as the optimal learning model for BU.
Chegg, an online student services platform that rents students textbooks and other study materials, is cooperating with professors in Boston University’s chemistry and physics departments after it was discovered students were using the platform to cheat on online exams. ILLUSTRATION BY AUSMA PALMER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Chemistry and physics departments looking to limit cheating

Allison Pirog April 28, 2020
BU professors in the Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics professors are working with Chegg, an online student services platform where users can rent textbooks and get tutoring help, to crack down on students using the site to cheat on quizzes after evidence surfaced last week.
Naomi Caines (CAS 23) and Ying Chu (CAS 23) cheer during the 2019 Matriculation ceremony. The 2019 Matriculation Ceremony celebrating the incoming class of 2023 was held on Sunday afternoon at Agganis Arena. COURTESY OF JACKIE RICCIARDI/BOSTON UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHY

Speakers welcome new students to BU at 2019 Matriculation Ceremony

Nyah Jordan September 3, 2019
BU officially welcomed the class of 2023, along with transfer students starting their first semester at BU, at the university’s annual Matriculation Ceremony in Agganis Arena on Sunday.
Weike Wang, pictured above, is a BU alumna. Wang was one of the 10 writers to win the 2018 Whiting Award, which includes a $50,000 prize, on Wednesday. PHOTO COURTESY SAAVEDRA PHOTOGRAPHY/ THE WHITING FOUNDATION

GRS alumna Weike Wang recognized for novel with $50,000

Armand Manoukian March 25, 2018
Boston University alumna Weike Wang has received the 2018 Whiting Award for fiction for her 2017 novel “Chemistry.”
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