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.
Boston University Alumna Fiona Whittington co-created "TechTogether" to host hackathons that are an inclusive, safe space for individuals of all marginalized genders.
The Boston Ujima Project kicked off its 2021 Citywide Assembly, “We Be Knowin’: A Boston Ujima Project Celebration of Everyday Democracy” Sunday — a series of cultural events and collective community planning designed to honor local communities.
To prioritize disenfranchised communities — who have faced disproportionate harm from marijuana enforcement and prohibition — the CCC limited delivery licenses to economic empowerment and social equity applicants for three years.
If we can foster participation over assimilation, then we may be able to provide immigrants a system that prioritizes individuality over commonality and allows them to fully realize their potential as individuals and as Americans.
In the business world, women receive a reported 7 percent of venture funds for their startups, according to a Fundera statistic, even as more are pursuing entrepreneurial success in the United States.
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When graduate and postgraduate students run into trouble turning their ideas into businesses, they can now look to a new workshop series by Boston University that aims to guide these hopeful entrepreneurs...
The LfA system plans to drastically change the way students and faculty interact with one another. However, The New Normal Challenge encourages students themselves to envision ways to improve other areas of campus life, such as student wellness, on-campus transport and social life.
Boston students traveled across the city to converge at Questrom School of Business Sept. 11 to discuss the power of color-coded assignment pads and scheduling highs. Boston University’s Black Business Student Association partnered with the Iota Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. to present the “Saved By the Bell Prioritization Workshop.”
Eight percent of tech industry employees are Hispanic and almost 7 percent are black, according to the census bureau’s American Community Survey. Hack.Diversity and the Startup Institute want to...
Dave Spandorfer, co-founder of the running apparel brand Janji, spoke at Boston University Tuesday night about the experiences and difficulties of starting his company and answered students’ questions about their own ventures.
