The College of Engineering is looking to a brighter future after its Engineering Research Center received a $18.5 million grant to conduct a five- to 10-year research project on Smart Lighting, a system that uses light for communication.

Boston University's Biosafety Level-4 laboratory faced more criticism last Friday when opposition group SafetyNet and community members met with city councilors to voice their grievances.

Some people workout to relieve stress, while others clean their rooms obsessively or play music. But Hakim Walker writes poetry - specifically about how Greenpeace members need to peace out of Commonwealth Avenue.

One arrest was all it took for former Seattle Police Department Chief Norm Stamper to go from making regular drug busts for 34 years to advocating for drug legalization as a retiree.

A caller reported his 'dress clothes' stolen from his office in the George Sherman Union at 5:31 p.m. Oct.1.

Boston University associate professor Osamu Shimomura won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday for his work with green fluorescent protein.

Concert pianist Cheol Woong Kim has performed all over the world and in front of several political leaders, but he still gets nervous when he speaks about his past.

Even as the sun sets today on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, members of the Boston University community say the conflict between professors and students over balancing religious observance and academic responsibilities continues.

The university will provide video recordings of classes for Boston University students who miss class for religious holidays as part of a new Office of the Provost initiative.

Six months after the university revealed plans for a university-wide honors program to replace the University Professors Program, administrators have provided few details about the initiative, including what it will be called.

Boston University's Metropolitan College isn't wasting time experimenting with new ways to teach a broader segment of the population, even as an oversight committee works on new ways to improve it.

Students spend long hours each week on everything from online procrastination to cooking up 'extreme' versions of croquet - everything and anything except sleeping.