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Engineers Without Borders President Vittoria Sama, left, Vice President Chaney Finkeldei, center, and International Projects and Fundraising Chair Urvi Chakravarthy, right. EWB is crowdfunding to provide clean drinking water for a displaced community in Kenya. COURTESY OF VITTORIA SAMA, CHANEY FINKELDEI AND URVI CHAKRAVARTHY

BU engineering club to raise money for clean water project in Kenya

Brenda Gonzalez March 29, 2024
Since 2018, Engineers Without Borders, EWB, has partnered with the Ogiek people of Tinet, Kenya on a mission to provide clean and accessible drinking water. This year, EBW’s aims to raise around $8,000 for travel costs, and $20,000 to implement the borehole project in Tinet this summer.
Semester at Sea

BU on deck — ship-based study abroad program allows students to experience the suite life

Sonya Carson February 16, 2023
The Semester at Sea program provides a unique study abroad experience, as students take classes on a voyage that docks in multiple countries.
Luca Becker

I Call Foul Play: Trump has disrupted democratic norms

Luca Becker November 10, 2020
In the end, democracy will persevere, regardless of Trump's egotistical and self-interested actions.
Boston University student Christine Le’s Etsy shop, lilacfinches, where she sells greeting cards and stickers. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students launch innovative projects during COVID-19 imposed lockdown

Daily Free Press Staff October 1, 2020
During this summer's quarantine, BU students got creative and started new projects, including social media platforms, podcasts and online stores.
From left to right: Khadija Noor, external relations director, Yasmin Morais, executive director, and Albert Jimenez, content/communications director created an app, RefEd, to educate refugee children in secondary school. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALBERT JIMENEZ

BU students develop app to educate refugee children

Lillian Ilsley-Greene September 16, 2018
A team of students from Boston University have created an Android app to help educate displaced children.  
GRAPHIC BY SHAUN ROBINSON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University admits students to class of 2022

Armand Manoukian March 22, 2018
Boston University notified students who applied regular decision of their acceptance to the class of 2022 on Saturday. The number of applications received this year was the most in BU’s history, with 64,473 applicants vying for 3,300 spots in the freshman class.
Edna Kiplagat, a Kenyan policewoman, won the women's division, adding to previous victories in London, New York and Los Angeles. PHOTO BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Kenyans win Marathon, Americans perform well

Nicole Havens April 18, 2017

Among more than 30,000 other runners on Monday afternoon, Geoffrey Kirui and Edna Kiplagat, both from Kenya, finished first in the men’s and women’s elite divisions, respectively, in the 121st...

Erika Koss reads a chapter out of her book during a special preview event Saturday in Newton. PHOTO COURTESY KERRY LAVIN

Author Erika Koss ties together political struggle, female labor, coffee

Roshni Kotwani November 3, 2016

Wondering how you’re going to make it through the day? Coffee. Need a way to make your night more productive? Coffee. Trying to find a smooth way to ask someone out? Coffee. Coffee has become...

GAMADES: Helms Amendment repeal central to global abortion rights fight

GAMADES: Helms Amendment repeal central to global abortion rights fight

Lucy Gamades February 18, 2016

While Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have not been asked about abortion much in the primary debates, their campaigns have both pledged to take action against the...

Students hold vigil to honor victims in Kenya

Students hold vigil to honor victims in Kenya

Julianna Narita April 7, 2015

[mediagrid cat="19981"] About 100 students gathered in front of Boston University’s George Sherman Union Monday night to commemorate the deaths of nearly 150 students on a college campus in Garissa,...

INTERVIEW: Natalie Bergman of Wild Belle

Daily Free Press Admin October 20, 2013

Blending soul, jazz and African beats saturated with synth, siblings Elliot and Natalie Bergman are the two people that form Wild Belle. Their debut album Isles, released in March 2013, has the kind...

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