After a week of open polls, the Boston University student body elected Build BU to be next year’s Student Government executive board. SG representatives and the Student Election Commission convened for a dinner Tuesday night for the announcement of the winning slate.
A team of graduate students from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business won the first-place prize of $25,000 in The Grand Business Challenge in Digital Health last Friday.
Starting in the fall of 2018, Wheelock College students will transition into the Boston University community as part of a merger announced in in October. In order to make the transition process go smoothly, BU and Wheelock faculty members are providing specialized academic advising to transitioning Wheelock students.
Boston University’s Student Government discussed the funding of Cabinet events and reviewed the Community Student Fee allocation process at its meeting Monday night.
A wave of controversy erupted Thursday afternoon following the announcement that a writing professor’s memoir assignment was being canceled by the Boston University College of Communication administration in light of complaints regarding the nature of the prompt.
In an effort to share resources and collaborate on upcoming research projects, Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future has established a partnership with Beijing Normal University. The two institutions will focus on interdisciplinary research with the goal of learning about the problems of the future and the ways in which they should be managed.
Boston University’s Student Government noted in last Monday’s meeting that roughly $15,000 of their remaining budget of $21,257.41 is reserved for Cabinet events. The funding of these events is meant to foster a greater sense of community on campus and empower student groups to fulfill their missions.
Several Boston University schools have risen in the U.S. News and World Report annual national graduate school rankings, which were released Tuesday. The Questrom School of Business, the School of Medicine, the School of Education, the School of Social Work and the School of Law all rose in rank.
Efforts to rename Yawkey Way, a street along the Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park, have raised questions at Boston University about whether the Yawkey Center for Student Services should also be renamed.
