Jakob Esterowitz and Jonah Dickson were doubles partners on the Boston University men’s tennis team before they ventured into a new kind of partnership: co-founding a startup.
Esterowitz, a sophomore in the College of Engineering, and Dickson, a master’s student studying global marketing management at the BU Metropolitan College, founded their startup, Orobor, during fall 2024.
In our food, clothes and even bodies exists a threat that is invisible to the naked eye — microplastics. As research on these tiny plastic particles advances, its hazardous nature becomes more apparent.
Nelia Gross, a PhD candidate studying materials science and engineering, began her first year at Boston University in 2022 researching how environmental contaminants influence how our bodies fight off diseases.
During spring break, two Boston University students traveled to Tijuana, Mexico with Associate Professor of the Practice Shannon Dooling to report on the impacts of new immigration policies. The group focused specifically on how the change affected asylum-seeking processes among migrants in Tijuana.
Music has become a powerful voice to express the fight for the environmental crisis. Local Boston music groups have combined performance with activism in an effort to empower younger generations.
Ever since they were kids, brothers Charlie Silver, a freshman in Boston University’s College of Engineering, and Jack Silver, a sophomore majoring in writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College, listened to the lyrics and guitar sounds of artists like Bob Dylan, The Strokes and Leonard Cohen.
Between browsing job postings, internship announcements and networking events, scrolling on LinkedIn is as common for college students as scrolling on social media.
LinkedIn, an online employment-focused professional platform launched in 2003, helps people connect with others and further their career development.
George Mendes, executive chef of Amar restaurant in Back Bay, joined his two passions — cooking and giving back — to host a fundraiser dinner for Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island Feb. 25.
As the second of three panels about U.S. immigration policy came to a close Feb. 28, the audience laughed at the moderator’s question.
“Maybe we can end this on a positive note?”
In a political environment with increased tensions over immigration, “positive notes” are welcome.
The Boston University Law Review’s spring 2025 Symposium invited law professors and activists from around the country to discuss resistance against active immigration restrictions that are causing tens of thousands of arrests and deportations.
While Newbury Street is known for drawing in large crowds on weekends, a line of shoppers took over the sidewalk as they waited for Vivant Vintage’s new location to officially open March 1.
Justin Pomerleau, owner and CEO of Vivant Vintage, opened the business’s flagship store in Lower Allston in 2014. Opening a location on Newbury Street has always been a dream of his.
The famous “Peanuts World” was brought to life by Boston University’s Stage Troupe’s exquisite adaptation of the 1967 Broadway musical production “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” which ran from Feb. 27 to March 1 in the Student Theater at Agganis Arena.
Performing a stand up comedy puppet show sounded unreal before attending “WHAT THE DUCK?!?” — but what was more unreal was having a puppet deliver political satire on the United States.
