Injustices in health care are among the most shocking and inhumane in the world, Partners in Health founder Dr. Paul Farmer told 1,400 people gathered at Boston University for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.

As investigations into Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme continue, two Boston University professors have been working to bring what may prove to be an elaborate fraud to light by contributing their expertise in Ponzi schemes to news outlets and congressional hearings.

Students reported that only two large-dorm burglaries occurred over winter break to police, a decrease in crime over past years.

Journalism professor Dick Lehr overturned a wrongful murder conviction in 2003 through his investigative reporting efforts. Just six years later, he said a lack in newspaper funding has made investigative reporting a concept of the past.

The Tobacco Regulation Amendment which bans tobacco sales on college campuses, has on-campus convenience stores scrambling to comply, but Rohan Arun, who smokes two packs of cigarettes a week, said he does not think the ban will deter him from his vice.

For some Boston University Student Union leaders, success does not equal completion this semester. The projects the Union is pursuing are ambitious,so a lot of work could be done without students seeing many concrete results, Union President Matt Seidel said.

The College of Communication is taking a step into the technological future with the addition of a high-definition television editing lab, COM officials said.

As the most recent wave of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which erupted Dec. 27 with Israeli airstrikes in response to Hamas-sanctioned rocket attacks, continues to escalate with an estimated 1,000 Palestinians dead, members of the Boston University community have expressed conflicting opinions regarding whether Israel's actions are justified.

Witness testimony for a wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed by the family of a Boston University student who died in an apartment fire against her deceased friend's estate and the apartment's owners, must be completed by next month for the case to see trial in 2010, lawyers said.

Carol Shanksy graduated from the College of Fine Arts with her fingers on another kind of keyboard. Shanksy, who graduated in December, became the first and only graduate of CFA's online doctoral of musical arts in music education program, not by pounding out tunes, but by signing online.

The School of Management may seem superior to outsiders with its pristine marble floors and what students fondly call 'the death star,' but management majors in SMG and social sciences majors in the College of Arts and Sciences are in neck-in-neck for the most popular major at Boston University, officials said.

Months after President Robert Brown imposed a staff hiring freeze and delayed capital projects that were not already underway, Boston University will combat a projected $10 million budget gap for the 2010 fiscal year, according to an email Brown sent to BU faculty and staff on Monday.