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People enter the Boston Public Schools headquarters in the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury. During the committee meeting on Wednesday, council members addressed the expansion of the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers and the transportation delays on the first day of school. SEAN YOUNG/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER.

BPS to expand enrollment, improve transportation, provide healthy meals for students

Vivian Ainomugisha September 15, 2024
The Boston Public School Committee discussed expanding enrollment at a health-related vocational school, addressing significant bus transportation delays and rolling out fresh-cooked meals during its Wednesday meeting.
Gov. Maura Healey, Sen. Ed Markey, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Mayor Michelle Wu in Boston Common on Monday. Massachusetts-elected officials gathered alongside members and allies of the Jewish community to show support for Israel following the Hamas attacks earlier this week. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Gov. Maura Healey, elected officials ‘stand with Israel’ amid attacks

Jennifer Lambert October 10, 2023
Thousands gathered in Boston Common to hear Massachusetts elected officials’ support for Israel on Monday, two days after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack that has killed more than 1,000 people. 
indoor dining

Boston to lift indoor mask mandate

Bella Ramirez March 4, 2022
Boston will lift its mask mandate for indoor spaces such as restaurants, gyms, museums and entertainment venues starting March 5.
zinneken's food truck on commonwealth avenue

Boston food trucks take to the streets after a difficult 2020

Daniel Kool April 6, 2021
Thirty vendors participated virtually in the City’s 2021 Food Truck Lottery in March.
President-elect Joe Biden nominated Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Labor secretary Thursday. OLIVIA FALCIGNO/ DFP FILE

Biden taps Walsh for Secretary of Labor

Daniel Kool January 7, 2021
As Labor secretary, Walsh would oversee a range of federal laws including minimum wage and overtime securities, as well as anti-discrimination policies and workplace safety regulations.
A protester dressed as a handmaid stands outside the Massachusetts State House in support of the Act to Remove Obstacles and Expand Abortion Access on Oct. 25. The Massachusetts House of Representatives will vote on a budget amendment this week that, if passed, will expand abortion access. SHANNON DAMIANO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts House votes to expand abortion access

Taylor Brokesh November 13, 2020
The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted Thursday to allow patients 16 years and older to seek an abortion without parental consent and make the procedure legal after 24 weeks for fetuses with a fatal abnormality. 
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.
East to West: Oct. 19, 2020

East to West: Oct. 19, 2020

Justin Tang October 19, 2020

FEATURING: Justin Tang, Jackson Machesky, Sarah Wager WRITTEN BY: Justin Tang, Jackson Machesky, Sarah Wager, Katrina Liu, Nellie Maloney, Mia Parker EDITED BY: Nellie Maloney BASED ON DFP...

Starting in November, Boston Logan International Airport will offer COVID-19 testing in Terminal E. CHLOE GRINBERG/ DFP FILE

Logan Airport to offer COVID-19 testing

Samuele Petruccelli October 16, 2020
Airport health and wellness company XpresSpa announced Oct. 9 it is constructing a testing facility with an anticipated capacity of 400 COVID-19 tests per day. 
The BUild Lab, home to Innovate@BU. Boston University’s Innovate@BU initiative hosted a virtual workshop on Tuesday entitled “Unlocking the Black Box of Business,” which described the different pathways to entrepreneurship for students. SOPHIE PARK/ DFP FILE

Workshop series educates, assists aspiring BU entrepreneurs

Yiran Yu October 5, 2020

When graduate and postgraduate students run into trouble turning their ideas into businesses, they can now look to a new workshop series by Boston University that aims to guide these hopeful entrepreneurs...

The Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program building on Bay State Road. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to constraints on research opportunities and hands-on learning for undergraduate students. CONNYR LU/ DFP FILE

How a pandemic transformed laboratory research at BU

Rachel Do September 9, 2020
It has now been months since BU and other universities first instituted remote learning and reduced capacity in classrooms, and research opportunities for undergraduates this semester have been no exception to such changes.
Boston University’s Wheelock School of Education is collaborating with three institutions to create new spring internship opportunities for students in the Child Life and Family-Centered Care Program. LUWA YIN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Wheelock adds new internship sites

David Hou February 25, 2020
Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development announced three new internship sites for their master’s of science program in child life and family-centered care Friday, according to the Wheelock website.
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