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The Daily Free Press

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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.
A LGBTQ flag hangs on a Boston University student’s wall. A Boston University task force released a report in 2018 with recommendations to make the University safer for its LGBTQ faculty and stuff. Three years later, several of the recommendations have yet to be implemented. LIBBY MCCLELLAND/DFP STAFF

Nearly three years later, many recommendations from BU LGBTQIA+ Task Force report have yet to be implemented

Tara Dave February 28, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed the work of the task force down, but the Q-Center has been launched since.
BUMC C3 Center

Graduate Medical Sciences launches Community Catalyst Center to foster community amongst graduate students

Claire Law September 15, 2021
C3 offers affinity groups for POC, first-gen students, veteran students, LGBTQIA+ students and international students.
doctor holding a stethoscope

BU community discusses impact of socioeconomic status on STEM pursuits

Divya Sood April 21, 2021
At a BU event, topics ranged from financial literacy and loans to first-gen students and income.
facilities management truck at boston university

BU mourns custodians’ deaths in the wake of COVID-19

Nick Kolev March 11, 2021
When Boston University custodians Juber Lopez and José Ferreira died in January due to complications from COVID-19, it was a loss for the whole BU community.
Boston University hosted the second installment in this Fall’s “Remote and Hybrid Teaching and Learning Lightning Talks,” allowing professors to share their experiences under the University’s hybrid learning model. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Professors share experiences with LfA environment, voice positive outcomes

Madeline Humphrey December 10, 2020

While college campuses would normally be bustling during the fall, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything from the way students communicate to the way they learn. At Boston University, that’s no...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health gave Vermont a “restricted” designation Saturday after COVID-19 cases in the state increased. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Vermont becomes last continental state to lose ‘lower-risk’ travel status in Massachusetts

Rin Velasco December 3, 2020
Travelers from Hawaii are the only ones remaining who can enter Massachusetts without a mandatory 14-day quarantine or a negative test result within 72 hours before arrival.
Boston University’s Atmospheric Remote Sensing Lab in the Department of Earth and Environment in the College of Arts and Sciences. Undergraduate students at BU are finding it difficult to get research experience due to limited lab occupancy. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Fewer new awards for UROP as researchers adjust to lab limits, remote work

Anne Jonas October 14, 2020
Undergraduate students at BU are finding difficulty obtaining research experience this semester with fewer positions available due to limited lab occupancy.
Boston University’s School of Medicine. BU students in programs with lab components are concerned about the quality of the University's remote lab experiences. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Health and medical students express concern over quality of remote lab experiences

Erin Regan October 7, 2020
As BU's instructors adapt to the restrictions of hybrid learning, some health and pre-medical students say they are no longer getting the hands-on experience they need to feel prepared for their careers.
Director of the Boston University Precision Diagnostics Center Catherine Klapperich demonstrates how to self-administer a nasal swab test for COVID-19 in a video posted on TikTok. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Frequent COVID-19 testing to occur through Fall

Julia Ermi July 29, 2020
All students learning in person at BU this Fall will be tested for COVID-19 twice a week and will be required to adhere to the new Massachusetts travel guidance, the University announced Monday in an email to the BU community.
Boston University’s School of Law. In an effort to diversify its applicant pool, BU’s graduate schools are participating in a movement entitled “Ban the Box,” which removes the criminal history question from the schools’ applications. RACHEL SHARPLES/ DFP FILE

BU grad schools remove criminal history question from application

Inyeong Kim July 25, 2020
Applicants to BU’s graduate programs will now no longer need to disclose their criminal history.
A member of the National Guard prepares COVID-19 test samples in Cheyenne, Wyoming. COURTESY OF JACQUELINE MARSHALL VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

How various BU departments are tackling the pandemic

Cameron Morsberger June 12, 2020
Boston University researchers are hard at work in the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories while others develop data collection technology to ensure students can return safely and stay healthy on campus in the coming months.
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