During the week of Nov. 11, a camera crew from National Geographic came to BU’s Cognitive Neuroimaging Center — a Magnetic Resonance Image center used by researchers to conduct experiments on undergraduate students and non-patient populations to study topics like memory and vision — to capture footage for this segment.
For five decades, Boston University’s AdLab course has given students the opportunity to gain experience in a full-service advertising agency setting. Founded in 1974 by professors Walter Lubars and Bob Montgomery, AdLab is the largest student-run advertising agency in the country — and this year it is celebrating its 50 year anniversary.
When it comes to ease of living in the United States, our health — and the earth’s — can often pay the price. Convenience shops, big box stores and drive-thrus seem to etch themselves into our lives as we become too absorbed in the more major matters at hand.
The paywall problem requires a delicate, balanced solution. Readers are responsible for financially supporting publications if they are able and publications are responsible for prioritizing public, reliable news over profit — if possible.
Forty-six years after the implementation of the ban on ivory, business is still booming. Once again, humans will use any means necessary to plunder the earth for its few natural resources.
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In this episode of East to West, we cover the effects of the Coronavirus on the BU community, Massachusetts’ new early voting ahead of Super...
A BU alumna of the COM journalism master’s program was unexpectedly required to pay thousands for a required summer internship while studying four years ago, according to the alumna herself.
Space scientists have encountered several huge, unexpected solar flares over a short span of time this past week, one of which even resulted in a coronal mass ejection in the direction of the Earth.
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Several Boston student environmental organizations have unified under the #PutAPriceOnIt campaign in an effort to lobby against carbon pollution. The coalition includes Tufts Climate Action, Emerson...
Do you know which branch of the U.S. government has the constitutional authority to declare war?
This is an example of a question asked to 1,203 surveyed U.S. college students in May. Researchers from...
The platform that is most well known for selfies is becoming increasingly important in another field: reporting breaking news. Instagram is reaching its unique potential as a photo sharing social media...
