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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Finding clarity within yourself amidst the chaos

Nino Machavariani March 24, 2025
However, I’ve grown to lean on my ability to sit down and do the work, and that’s the key — to make life feel a little easier, you have to build trust with yourself through habits, hobbies and moments that make you feel safe and loved.
woman meditates on top of a mountain

Manifest it

Maya Frankel April 13, 2021
Go get your journal, yoga or music and start turning your dreams and goals into reality.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The issue of standardized testing must be addressed at lower levels of education

Editors February 3, 2021
The issue of standardized testing is that universities can make it optional, but they can’t get rid of it or the system perpetuating its flaws. We need a fundamental change so all students receive a solid foundational education that starts as early as elementary school.
For Boston University students having difficulties managing school because of COVID-19, the morality of cheating during online exams is far from black-and-white. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In era of online exams, concerns over cheating develop new nuances

Angela Yang December 10, 2020
When Gus Betts-O’Rourke was told his midterm had been uploaded to Chegg, he wasn’t surprised.
Boston residents say the return of students to the city was more manageable than anticipated. ANRAN XIE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston residents say return of students more bearable than expected

Angela Yang December 10, 2020
As the fall semester concludes at schools across the state, data sourced from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health show a steeper rise in the number of new coronavirus cases per day than the number of new tests given per day. Yet some Boston residents said the reality of college students’ return beats the catastrophe they had expected.
I Need The A+ Tutoring, a tutoring platform developed by Boston University student Ben Reydler, matches students with tutors who have taken the specific class that they need help in. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Questrom student’s tutoring service offers help in specific BU courses, not subjects

Toni Baraga November 12, 2020

With the end of each semester inevitably comes final exams, and one Boston University student has created a business opportunity in tutoring peers who seek academic help during these times. A plethora...

Young adults in Boston make up the majority of the city’s COVID-19 cases, according to Mayor Marty Walsh in a press conference Friday. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Young people drive Boston COVID-19 uptick

Allison Pirog October 5, 2020
After Boston entered the COVID-19 red zone Wednesday, Mayor Marty Walsh said in a press conference Friday that younger adults have contributed the most coronavirus cases to the city.
The Boston University School of Medicine’s Center for Regenerative Medicine developed a coronavirus test kit in collaboration with the Boston Medical Center that went into use March 23. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

BU researchers help develop unique COVID-19 test

Ellie Yeo March 29, 2020
BUSM’s Center for Regenerative Medicine partnered with the Boston Medical Center to develop a clinically approved in-house test for COVID-19. The test was developed and approved within the span of one week by a group of over 50 volunteer researchers on BU’s Medical Campus, and went into use at BMC March 23.

HICKENBOTHAM: And so it begins…

Daily Free Press Admin October 1, 2013

                     

NEIDL officials to conduct safety drills on June 12

Daily Free Press Admin June 10, 2013

Boston University officials will conduct tests on emergency responses at the National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories on the morning of June 12, officials said. The drill will take place at NEIDL’s...

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