Claudia Goldin receiving Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her work on women's role in the work force comes at the perfect time as attitudes about work in general are evolving post-pandemic.
Our real world is too much to bear, so we escape into the fantasy worlds of gacha games — where the underlying pain comes from loss of money, not lives.
Boston University was ranked the 44th best college in the U.S. in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings released on Wednesday, higher than frequent rivals Boston College and Northeastern University.
Every few weeks, a new list of college rankings is released — each with its own criteria for what aspects of colleges and universities are worth considering. Some are based more on research, and others...
Boston University announced Thursday it had recently appointed an ESPN journalist and a public policy expert, both BU alum, to its Board of Trustees and Board of Overseers.
Kevin Merida, senior...
The cliché “it’s better to be safe than sorry” no longer holds true when it comes to cancer screening.
The newest strategy for getting checked up is literally called “wait and see.” It casts...
We used to wake up in the morning to the sound of tweeting birds. Now we wake up to the sounds of different tweets — the ones coming from our phones.
Twitter has become one of the most critical platforms...
There is good news in the cancer world — on Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported about one of the “first cancer vaccines to show a survival benefit.”
Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. is a company...
This year’s United States presidential campaign season has not brought with it many out-of-the-ordinary surprises. From Donald Trump's sexist and racist comments to Hillary Clinton’s email controversy,...
With social media, we are all journalists. Modern technology gives us up-to-the-minute ability to see how drunk Stacy becomes — via her Snapchat story. At the same time, we can be briefed on wars on...
In my column last week, I addressed the rhetoric and policies of Donald Trump, who sits atop the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. Trump professes to speak his mind, and in doing so promises...
