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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Boston University’s Global Engineering Brigades, a student organization dedicated to installing water systems in underdeveloped communities, spoke at a guest lecture on Nov. 15 about sustainability and international volunteering. COURTESY OF BU GLOBAL ENGINEERING BRIGADES

International professor’s guest lecture talks sustainability abroad

Yiran Yu November 23, 2020

Sustainability and international activism are more relevant than ever in the 21st century, yet the impact of voluntourism — international volunteering — is less discussed. Global Engineering...

Dr. Ljiljana Rajic speaks at the event “Preventing A Mad Max Future” at the Boston Public Library on March 20. Her talk discussed the global effects of pollution. PHOTO BY HANNAH ROGERS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

‘Preventing a Mad Max Future’ presenter discusses new clean water technology

Samantha Drysdale March 28, 2018

Environmental dystopias of the variety presented in the 2015 blockbuster “Mad Max: Fury Road” — a desert-like world wherein oil is scarce and water is scarcer — are often seen as overly dramatized...

Approximately 11 percent of the 800 million people who live in villages in India do not have access to water purification systems. PHOTO COURTESY NATASHA WRIGHT

MIT researchers develop sustainable method for purifying salt water in India

Becca DeGregorio September 16, 2014

In the search for clean drinking water, scientists and engineers have cycled through filtration, chlorination, oxidation and just about any “-ation” one can think of. Despite these previous efforts,...

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