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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Emma Clement | Graphics Editor, Josephine Kalbfleisch | DFP Photographer, Lauren Albano | Campus Co-Editor

Musk Foundation donations to BU rocketry club launch debate

Lauren Albano February 28, 2025
Donations made by the Musk Foundation to a BU rocketry team uncovered by The Daily Free Press are igniting debates over private donorship and revealing intra-University tensions over the funding it receives.
A letter from Boston University President Melissa Gilliam, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Gloria Waters and Vice President and Associate Provost Ad Interim for Research Thomas Bifano confirming BU’s commitment to research amid the National Institutes of Health funding cuts. The funding cuts are temporarily halted due to lawsuits from three universities, but research departments will have to find a way to cut costs if the policy is implemented. SIENA GLEASON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU, local universities react to NIH research grant funding cuts

Liam Dunne February 19, 2025
Universities and researchers react to research grant funding cuts by the NIH.
Sargent College, where the Aphasia Resource Center is located.

BU’s Aphasia Resource Center serves as a guide to create community and belonging

Ava Berger March 15, 2023
The center hosts events and supports the recovery of people with aphasia: "the most common disorder nobody's ever heard of."
Yvonne Tang

Burning Out: The consequences of being ‘relatable’

Yvonne Tang March 15, 2021
As we collectively exit this pandemic, I hope we can recognize that relatability has become a shallow concept.
Boston University’s School of Medicine received a $1.4 million, five-year grant Friday, which will be used to fund the school’s Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program. JINGYI LIN/ DFP FILE

BUSM professors receive $1.4 million grant

Maya Shrestha March 1, 2020
A grant for $1.4 million going toward student stipends was awarded by The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute for General Medical Sciences to the BU School of Medicine’s Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program Thursday.
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