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5-Minute Major: Trevor Zegras is no longer a golden child

Annika Morris April 3, 2024

Trevor Zegras has fallen from grace. The star center on the Anaheim Ducks was the ninth overall draft pick in 2019, so the expectations were always high for him. Zegras quickly proved his ability...

Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

5-Minute Major: NHL All-Star Game draft still needs fixing

Annika Morris February 8, 2024
No one wants to be picked last for their middle school dodgeball team. Even if you’re an NHL all star, you don’t want to be drafted last. After years of simply dividing the all stars by their respective divisions — Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and Pacific — to play in a four-team bracket to decide the winning team, the NHL decided to mix up the format and return to a draft format.
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.
Senior Makinna Akers been a workhorse for the BU pitching staff, and her play has kept her team close in games against top offensive squads. PHOTO BY ALEXANDRA WIMLEY/DFP FILE PHOTO

Softball struggles in California tournaments

Nick DiBona March 14, 2017

After starting off the season 5-4, the Boston University softball team struggled in its two most recent tournaments in California: the San Diego Classic and the Long Beach State Tournament. The Terriers...

VALLUVAR: Farewell is such sweet sorrow

VALLUVAR: Farewell is such sweet sorrow

Revathi Valluvar December 8, 2016

As the semester comes to an end, so does my journey here in Boston. Honestly, I didn’t think it would hurt this much to say goodbye. In the short time I have spent here, I have fallen in love with Boston,...

Harvard program Open Humans, a research database that allows users to share their health data with various studies, launched March 24. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY L.E. CHARLES/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

New research initiative lets patients give Big Data their digits

Dagny Crepeau April 2, 2015

Sharing information is commonly associated with posting to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Now, thanks to researchers from the Harvard Personal Genome Project, people can...

Boston makes short list to host 2024 Olympics

Daily Free Press Admin June 13, 2014

Following the Tuesday meeting where the United States Olympic Committee announced that they completed an official short list of cities to host the 2024 Summer Olympics but declined to name them, an anonymous...

San Diego surf rock makes big Wavves at the Sinclair

Daily Free Press Admin October 6, 2013

On a cool autumn night in Cambridge, the audience at The Sinclair was transported to a never-ending California summer when Wavves performed their set. As the clock struck 11 p.m. Tuesday, the large crowd...

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