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Student encampments on Marsh Plaza. Enshrined in student protest, Boston University saw some of the largest anti-war protests in the 1960s and ‘70s, followed by anti-apartheid protests in the 1980s and similar campus activism remains prevalent at BU. MATTHEW EADIE/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

‘Decades of activism’: BU community leaders reflect on history of campus protests, coverage

Mary Goetz April 4, 2025
Boston University has a history of protests and student-led activism. Community leaders, professors and former students reflect on their experiences.
Stephen Grossberg

Neuroscience pioneer Stephen Grossberg’s most recent book cements revolutionary career at BU

Gia Shin October 25, 2023
In 2021, Stephen Grossberg, professor of cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, released his "magnum opus," "Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind."
Mayor Michelle Wu at City Hall Pavilion.

Boston joins program to reduce gun violence within the next few years

Xiaoya Shao April 13, 2023
Mayor Michelle Wu announced last Tuesday that the city of Boston aims to reduce homicide rates by participating in a new program that is designed to create Boston-specific strategies to address gun violence in the city.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Don’t be a Hypocrite: What we should have already known about domestic violence

Viktoria Popovska October 3, 2021
After the Gabby Petito case, the current system of domestic violence response needs to be reevaluated.
In a Thursday panel hosted by the Boston University School of Public Health, health experts discussed public policy issues that affected the U.S. coronavirus response. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

School of Public Health hosts panel discussing health care under Biden administration

Connor Allen February 8, 2021
BU's School of Public Health hosted experts in sociology, medicine and public health in a panel last Thursday to discuss potential policy changes the Biden Administration could adopt to improve health care in the United States for all.
Beacon Hill residents wrote an open letter requesting gas lamps in the neighborhood be replaced with electric bulbs to protect trees harmed by gas leaks. COURTESY OF IAN HOWARD VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Beacon Hill residents push to replace gas lamps with LED lighting

Katarzyna Jezak December 4, 2020
Those trees were planted in 1977 — the same year the gas lamps were installed. Roughly more than two-thirds of the trees have since died, while the remaining five are in bad health, according to the letter.
Terrier field hockey looks to bounce back against Ivy League foe

Terrier field hockey looks to bounce back against Ivy League foe

Emily Phillips October 4, 2018
The Boston University field hockey team comes back home Sunday to face off against Harvard University at New Balance Field.
Senior Ally Hammel posted one assist and three shots over the weekend in the series against American University and Penn State. PHOTO BY JUSTIN HAWK/ DFP FILE PHOTO

Field hockey splits weekend, wins conference opener against American 2-1

Josh Rothstein September 16, 2018
The No. 21 Boston University field hockey split a pair of games over the weekend, defeating American University Saturday 2-1 but falling to No. 6 Pennsylvania State University 4-0 a day later.
Sen. Ed Markey looks on during the "Net Neutrality: The Path Forward" panel on Thursday evening. Markey held the event to discuss his efforts to repeal the net neutrality ban. PHOTO BY JENNA MANTO/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Markey explains his push to save net neutrality at MIT

Michal Shvimer April 20, 2018
Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey spoke about his recent efforts to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's decision to repeal net neutrality to a crowd of over 500 people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Wong Auditorium Thursday night.
Stick to Sports: Nontraditional sports receive broadcasting limelight

Stick to Sports: Nontraditional sports receive broadcasting limelight

Marisa Ingemi September 29, 2016

For most of the past century, four sports have reigned supreme for American viewers: baseball, football, basketball and hockey. Whether at the professional or collegiate level, those sports, primarily...

Wencen Wu, engineering professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, speaks during the “Bio-inspired Distributed Sensing with Mobile Sensor Networks” talk on Friday. PHOTO BY RACHEL MCLEAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Engineer Wencen Wu mobilizes robots with innovative sensory technology

Kaitlyn Locke October 22, 2015

Revealing the latest on her research with mobile sensor networks, Wencen Wu, an engineering professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presented a lecture at Boston University on Friday. BU’s...

EDITORIAL: Rape Culture Thrives on Campus

EDITORIAL: Rape Culture Thrives on Campus

Editors April 30, 2015

Due to an egregious oversight, Budweiser’s “Up for Whatever” campaign has come toppling down. As part of the campaign, the company put catchy phrases on Bud Light bottles. One of the catch phrases?...

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