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Graduate student Foster Malleck (left) and junior Vera Sjöberg (right) pose with their NCAA trophies. Malleck and Sjöberg will compete at the Wold Indoor Athletic Championships in Nanjing, China March 21. COURTESY OF EAMONN RYAN/BU ATHLETICS

Running around the world: Sjöberg and Malleck to compete at World Indoor Athletic Championships

Toby Moses March 21, 2025
The last time Boston University track and field athletes were named First Team All-American in Indoor Track and Field was in 2014 when Rich Peters and Monica Adler were given the nod in the mile. More than a decade later, two Terriers did it again, and then some.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

5-Minute Major: The 4 Nations Face-Off is an all-star game with a lack of all-stars

Annika Morris January 29, 2025
The NHL’s nation-based tournament is not the Olympics, and it isn’t really an all-star game either. Instead of the typical all-star format used by nearly every other professional sports league, the NHL opted to create the 4 Nations Face-Off, featuring teams of players from Canada, the United States, Finland and Sweden.
Kara Chen/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: A reckless transition to a cashless society will harm marginalized communities

Editors October 6, 2020
We are on the path to a cashless society. However, this futuristic utopia could quickly abandon marginalized communities if we are not delicate with the transition.
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibit “The Visitors” reopened for Institute of Contemporary Art members on Wednesday. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Reinstalled, Ragnar Kjartansson’s exhibit takes on new meaning after COVID-19

Chloe McKim Jepsen October 1, 2020
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors” will appear again at the Institute of Contemporary Art, where it was exhibited earlier this year before the pandemic.
Consul General of Sweden in New York Leif Pagrotsky and other Nordic ambassadors meet with the New England Council Thursday afternoon. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Nordic ambassadors discuss benefits of trade, sustainability

Sabrina Schnur November 10, 2017

The New England Council hosted a luncheon Thursday on the economic relationships between New England and Nordic countries to discuss what factors have made Nordic economies so successful. Sixty-five...

Sarah Prager speaks about her novel “Queer, There and Everywhere” Oct. 17 at Simmons College. PHOTO BY ALEX MASSET/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Author Sarah Prager highlights LGBTQ history in new book

Samantha Drysdale October 25, 2017

The LGBTQ community has a history of being been oppressed, ostracized and abused. Only recently have various sexualities and identities been embraced on a larger scale, starting with the first pride...

The Boston Univeristy men's soccer team has players from eight states and nine countries. PHOTO COURTESY STEVE BABINEAU

Finding strength in differences: the diversity of BU men’s soccer

Kaitlyn Olivier September 7, 2017

Thirty-five men. Ten countries. One squad. This season, Nickerson Field will showcase talent brought to the Boston University men’s soccer team from nations around the world. Representing eight states...

BHATIA: Sweden hasn’t achieved gender equality

BHATIA: Sweden hasn’t achieved gender equality

Jahnavi Bhatia February 23, 2017

The term “feminist” has been extremely politicized in the United States, with strong support and strong opposition to it. In Sweden, however, a majority of people self-identify as feminist. Three out...

The Blue Line: Beware Canada in World Cup of Hockey

The Blue Line: Beware Canada in World Cup of Hockey

Mike Benedykciuk September 15, 2016

  The biggest news in the world of American sports right now is the start of the NFL season. Six Week 1 matchups were decided by two points or less, which shows that the level of competition...

Hope Solo, two-time Olympic gold medalist, was recently suspended from U.S. Women's Soccer for outlandish comments. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Why We Play: Hope Solo, trash talking and the importance of sportsmanship

Simon Kienitz Kincade September 8, 2016

  After 16 years, 202 international appearances, two Olympic Gold Medals and one World Cup victory, Hope Solo’s tenure as the goalie for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team has almost...

20 Questions with…BU hockey’s Oskar Andrén and Erik Udahl

Sarah Kirkpatrick January 13, 2016

Responses have been edited for brevity and clarity. The No. 10 Boston University men’s hockey team added two new freshman forwards for the second semester during winter break: Oskar Andrén, a Stockholm...

A Lund University study released Friday found that rudeness in the workplace is contagious if no action is taken to stop it. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Rudeness the latest bug going around offices, study says

Ashli Molina December 10, 2015

Consider the many times colleagues speak to one another in a day. You may want to be mindful next time you utter some sly comment — it turns out that rudeness in the workplace is contagious. Three...

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