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At Senior Breakfast on Friday, President Brown named Wendy Kopp, Founder and Chair of the Board of the national teaching corps Teach For America, as BU’s 2013 commencement speaker. “I …
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It’s here–that ephemeral time of year when things begin to grow, when the air starts to smell sweet and fresh, when, suddenly, you find yourself sprawled on the COM lawn …
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Ben Thompson views climate change as a slow apocalypse. The issue is dire enough to the soft-spoken math grad student that he’s travelled across the country to express his support …
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On Friday evening, BU Veg Society’s Rachel Atcheson (CAS ’13) organized the biggest event of her college career: bringing Peter Singer, described by The New Yorker as “the most influential …
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Making an enormous auditorium like the Tsai Performance Center seem intimate may be difficult to imagine, but this was nonetheless achieved by The Crossroads Project at 7:30 p.m. on April 23. …
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Water has set Concord, Massachusetts ablaze. Wednesday night, over 1300 of the 17,668 members of the town streamed into Concord-Carlisle Regional High School for the annual Town Meeting. They filled …
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Say what you will about Tom Cruise, former biggest star in the world and current resident alien/troll of America, but the man has always been able to light up a …
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On Saturday afternoon, Boston University students ran to the new pedestrian mall behind Warren Towers to celebrate Holi. The festival is a traditional Hindu celebration of the renewal of spring …
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For the past 33 years, Linda Wells has served the Boston University community as an educator, administrator, and mentor, making strident contributions to the generations of people who have passed and will pass through Boston University. Last October, BU Provost and Chief Academic Officer Dr. Jean Morrison announced that Linda Wells had informed her and President Brown that she would like to step down as Dean of the College of General Studies at the end of the 2012-13 academic year.
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Most people probably haven’t heard of the Wonderwerk Cave. An enormous 140-meter long tunnel first excavated in the 1970s, the cave lies in Southern Africa and reaches deep enough for …
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After a long, hard winter, yesterday was the first day of real spring. But for most of it, we were trapped inside. Yesterday, Boston University was on lockdown. The Dean’s …
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Since the tragic attack on Monday, people around the world and members of Boston have poured out their support for the victims of the tragedy and the city itself. Sayings …
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