By Emma Clement, Graphics Editor & Layout Co-Editor
• September 19, 2025
Less than 10 minutes from Boston University’s Charles River Campus, between the Back Bay, Kenmore and Fenway neighborhoods, is a small, unassuming park underneath the Bowker Overpass. For years, the space was underutilized — but now, each Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the park comes alive with food, music and community for the Charlesgate Farmers Market.
By Sophie Shatzky, Arts and Community Editor
• September 16, 2025
Between tedious applications, scheduling conflicts and rigid commitments, finding a job to accommodate the average college student can seem impossible — but there may be a solution.
In December 2024, Boston University senior Ryo Nambara and alum Sara Annis created Shiftly, a platform that connects BU students seeking extra income with local restaurants in need of short-term assistance.
By John Tatum, Associate Business Editor
• September 9, 2025
Since 1967, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has funded public media stations across the country, delivering news, educational content, entertainment and emergency alerts to millions. However, the CPB will be shutting down on Sept. 30 due to federal funding cuts.
President Donald Trump signed the Rescissions Act of 2025 on July 24, canceling $1.1 billion of funding for the CPB, which funds National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
With ChatGPT and OpenAI becoming household names over the last few years, educational institutions like Boston University have been faced with a pressing question: Is it time to embrace generative AI in...
By John Tatum, Associate Business Editor
• June 6, 2025
Every year, about 3,000 new students join the Boston University community with over 300 majors ranging from music to chemistry and everything in between. For non-business students, entrepreneurship may seem out of reach.
Innovate@BU, a center located on BU’s Charles River Campus, provides students with resources, funding and mentorship to pursue business ventures — regardless of their academic major or background.
After applying to internships and jobs last summer, Boston University juniors Loup Wang and Luca Piekarski found the process frustrating and inefficient, which inspired them to find a solution.
The two teamed up with Wang’s high school friend, University of Alabama senior Vance Spears, to create their own solution: Ascendia, a web-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to help college students navigate and personalize the internship application process.
Boston University senior Zane Mroue considers his music taste “very niche” compared to his friends. He tried to search for other users online who share his preferences, but he found them difficult to find using Spotify and other existing platforms.
When opening a new browser tab, Shiv Dutt saw an opportunity.
Dutt is the founder and CEO of MeaVana, a fast-growing Google Chrome extension that allows users to customize their dashboard to their needs.
As diseases spread faster across borders, a team of scientists, engineers and public health experts launched a first-of-its-kind, open-source global surveillance platform to detect emerging biothreats.
The Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network, or BEACON, officially launched April 24 during an introductory conference at Boston University Center for Computing and Data Sciences. The platform is based at Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and developed in partnership with the Hariri Institute for Computing and Data Sciences at BU and HealthMap at Boston Children’s Hospital.
While procrastinating for an exam one night, now seniors Rafaele DiMaggio and Axel Bautista-Tienda theorized that they could make money from selling grilled cheeses on Pratt Street, an area known for its fraternity presence.
DiMaggio and Bautista-Tienda decided to bring a modified version of that idea to life for Marathon Monday 2024 by selling grilled cheese and pizza out of the Gardner Court Apartments — locally known as “G-Court.”
Madeleine Brason never planned to open a candy shop — let alone one that would draw lines of people down the street just days after opening.
Two months into running her South End storefront, the 29-year-old founder of Madeleine’s Candy Shop is still catching her breath.
When Jared Pincus was only a few years old, his father, Allan Pincus, fixed up an old computer and gave it to him to play with. Allan was mesmerized by young Jared’s ability to latch onto the mouse and...
