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Semester at Sea

BU on deck — ship-based study abroad program allows students to experience the suite life

By Sonya Carson February 16, 2023
The Semester at Sea program provides a unique study abroad experience, as students take classes on a voyage that docks in multiple countries.
Map of Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan

BU students with ties to Israel and Palestine share personal stories, frustrations amid more than 230 deaths in Gaza, 12 in Israel before cease-fire

By Jesús Marrero Suárez May 23, 2021
The 11-day period of violence heightened antisemitism, Islamophobia and division in the region.
globe placed on the ground

BU students help launch educational Content Creation Lab for teens

By Juncheng Quan April 15, 2021
The CCL allows teens to create educational text and videos to share with their peers online.
British rock band Coldplay, shown performing at the 2017 Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, Germany, released eighth studio album “Everyday Life” Friday. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Review: Coldplay’s “Everyday Life” mystifies listeners with latest project

By Maria Estefania Ruiz November 26, 2019
In Coldplay’s latest album “Everyday Life,” lead singer Chris Martin and company single-handedly produced a body of work that marks a new, experimental era for the band. 
Flags of countries around the world hang overhead in the check-in area of Terminal E in Boston’s Logan International Airport. The inaugural William R. Keylor Travel Fund awarded five Boston University students with grants to conduct research in the United States and abroad. SERENA YU/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU students receive grants to research abroad

By Damian Walsh December 6, 2018

Five Boston University undergraduate students will pursue research in the United States and abroad with the help of grants from the inaugural William R. Keylor Undergraduate Travel Fund. The fund...

From left to right: Khadija Noor, external relations director, Yasmin Morais, executive director, and Albert Jimenez, content/communications director created an app, RefEd, to educate refugee children in secondary school. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALBERT JIMENEZ

BU students develop app to educate refugee children

By Lillian Ilsley-Greene September 16, 2018
A team of students from Boston University have created an Android app to help educate displaced children.  
From left, MA student Vicky Kelberer and Professor Noora Lori work with Professor Andrei Lapets and Boston University’s Hariri Institute members Andrei Lapets, San Tran and Frederick Jansen. PHOTO COURTESY ERIKA SIDOR/ MICROSOFT

Student-made app Urban Refuge in development stage

By JenRacoosin March 1, 2018
A team of Boston University students and graduates has created an app called Urban Refuge that helps urban refugees in Amman, Jordan locate resources and non-governmental organizations near them.
KASTRITIS: Legalizing mitochondrial therapy is necessary to save lives

KASTRITIS: Legalizing mitochondrial therapy is necessary to save lives

By Elias Kastritis October 6, 2016

The United States of America has enjoyed a long history of priding itself for its innovative technological and scientific domination. Indeed, the countless academic, scientific, industrial, mathematical,...

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