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EDITORIAL: Emerging Boston biotech industries have a responsibility to science — and to their neighbors

Editors November 4, 2021
Given the lack of stringent and uniform federal regulations, Boston's emergent biotech lab industry have the responsibility to ensure they are operating with the safety of their neighbors in mind.
A mosquito. Boston is officially at high risk for receiving the West Nile Virus, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. COURTESY OF WILDTURKEY VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Two new cases of West Nile Virus reported in state following Boston being labeled “high risk”

Daily Free Press Staff September 17, 2021
Boston is raised to risk level "high" for the West Nile Virus, following the emergence of new cases.
East to West: Feb. 12, 2021

East to West: Feb. 12, 2021

Jackson Machesky February 12, 2021

Content Warning: This episode of East to West contains mention of sexual assault. In today’s episode, we cover the university-wide sexual assault protest, a series of break-ins in South Campus,...

Lena Papadakis, a pre-medical senior in Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, founded Preemie to Pre-Med, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting child life departments in New England hospitals. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sargent student’s childhood hospitalization leads her to launch nonprofit

Cameron Morsberger November 3, 2020
Lena Papadakis was born 32 weeks premature. But out of this distress, she is now giving back to the very programs that saved her life.
Boston University faculty members hold mixed views on the University’s academic calendar changes. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Faculty express mixed feelings on academic year calendar changes

Isabella Abraham October 29, 2020
BU is trying to minimize travel for the 2020–2021 academic year in the hopes of limiting the spread of COVID-19.
Cambridge, Newton, Somerville and Watertown were labeled “high-risk” for the West Nile virus by the Massachusetts Department of Health on Thursday. COURTESY OF PIXABAY

Cambridge, Newton, Somerville, Watertown labeled “high risk” for West Nile

Isabella Abraham September 15, 2020
WNV is typically spread when an infected mosquito bites an individual, and can produce a range of reactions, from zero symptoms to severe ones that require hospitalization.
EDITORIAL: Categorizing states as high- or low-risk poses potential danger

EDITORIAL: Categorizing states as high- or low-risk poses potential danger

Editors September 14, 2020
Allowing travelers from states deemed low-risk into the Commonwealth without any quarantine requirements implies a blind trust in all residents of those states to be virus-free if they are to enter Massachusetts. This is an unsafe policy for several reasons.
A sign on the door of Warren Towers showing ways that students can limit the spread of COVID-19. Professors at Boston University have criticized the University for not extending the flexibility of its Learn From Anywhere model to BU staff. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU professors share experiences, openly critique LfA system

Cameron Morsberger September 2, 2020
Through the Learn from Anywhere model, students are given a choice to attend class virtually or on campus, but most professors do not have this option.
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