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People dance at a Pride month celebration hosted by Boston Pride For The People in June 2023. As Boston residents prepare for the city’s Pride month events, they also acknowledge the performative allyship of companies and organizations. TAYLOR COESTER/DFP FILE

Boston celebrates Pride month while weary of corporate support

Charlie Johnson June 14, 2024
As Boston recognizes Pride month in June, there is a cautious eye on how companies and organizations display support for the celebrations.
Closed MBTA green line B branch tracks and a shuttle bus that replaces train service between Babcock and North Station. Boston University students are struggling to get to class amidst the track maintenance that will last until Jan. 28. BARRETT WALSH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU community affected by another Green Line B closure at the start of the spring semester

Camille Bugayong January 26, 2024
As the semester begins in below freezing temperatures, the Boston University community has been greatly impacted due to suspension of the Green Line B branch once more.
Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, where the Center for Systems Neuroscience is located. CSN is open to multidisciplinary faculty research on a wide range of topics such as Alzheimer’s disease, the brain’s role in memory function and the connection between animal and robotic navigation. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Center for Systems Neuroscience fosters interdisciplinary collaboration

Sara Creato December 8, 2023
Michael Hasselmo, who leads a laboratory at Boston University’s Center for Systems Neuroscience, helped establish the center in 2014.
Edward Avedisian and Aram V. Chobanian

School of Medicine to be renamed Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine

Taylor Hawthorne September 30, 2022
The School of Medicine has been given a $100 million gift by two BU alumni.
BU students wearing masks on campus

BU’s positivity rate drops below one percent for first time this year

Daily Free Press Staff February 11, 2022
The decline in cases comes one week after BU's transition to unobserved testing.
unobserved testing

BU transitions to unobserved testing at Charles River Campus

Daily Free Press Staff February 3, 2022
Observed testing will cease completely at 808 after Feb. 10. Medical campus will transition next week.
BU students want gender-neutral restrooms on campus

Students call for more gender-inclusive bathrooms on BU campus to accommodate transgender, non-binary community

Zoe Tseng January 20, 2022
Difficulties in finding all-gender bathrooms on campus have made transgender students feel unsafe in the past.
Boston University requires COVID-19 booster shot for spring 2022, no more daily symptom attestation

BU mandates COVID-19 booster shot, removes daily symptom check for Spring semester

Daily Free Press Staff December 14, 2021
Protocols such as indoor mask mandate and weekly testing will continue to stay in place.
The Massachusetts Menstrual Equity Coalition home page on a phone screen. The Boston University School of Public Health’s Period Project and student organization Period at BU work to combat period poverty, or inequitable access to menstrual products. ILLUSTRATION BY CONOR KELLEY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU student organizations combat period poverty

Lindsay Shachnow November 12, 2021
Student leaders discuss how period poverty can be combated at Boston University in the greater Boston area.
Boston University sign

BU to lift social distance requirements for summer, keep masks indoors

Emily Stevenson June 12, 2021
Starting June 14, physical distancing requirements will no longer be in place on BU campuses.
The Boston University Arts Initiative collaborated with BU Gaming Club on Friday to host a Minecraft block party DJed by DJ Zander in a virtual replica of the Tsai Performance Center. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU arts, gaming join forces to host Minecraft block party

Molly Farrar December 9, 2020
BU student, "DJ Zander," performed in the Tsai Performance Center on Friday, but the event wasn’t held in a building. Instead, he played in a Minecraft replica of the auditorium.
Boston University students say they feel safe traveling off campus because of the University’s intensive coronavirus testing procedures. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Are students safe traveling off campus? It depends.

Jun Li September 28, 2020
Though the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed college life, many students said they find it safe to still travel off campus thanks to BU’s comprehensive health guidelines.
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