By Brian Chan, Business & Science Editor
• March 27, 2026
At first glance, baby boomers and payphones may seem like things of the past. But on Boston University’s campus, you can now interact with both.
Outside Pavement Coffeehouse, a plaque on a phonebox installed during the first week of March invites people to “call a boomer” as part of a social experiment.
When someone makes a call, a similar phone labeled “Call a Zoomer” located in a senior housing complex in Reno, Nevada rings, initiating a conversation spanning nearly 3,000 miles and multiple generations.
By Jack Schwed, Managing Co-Editor
• February 7, 2025
During the week of Nov. 11, a camera crew from National Geographic came to BU’s Cognitive Neuroimaging Center — a Magnetic Resonance Image center used by researchers to conduct experiments on undergraduate students and non-patient populations to study topics like memory and vision — to capture footage for this segment.
Canvassers from across the country headed to New Hampshire for this year’s first-in-the-nation primary to make a stand for their chosen candidates on Tuesday.
Securing that first job out of college can be a tough nut to crack. Planters' 26-foot-long "NUTmobile" visited Boston University last week, seeking BU applicants to drive the nutty vehicle across the country after graduation.
It has now been months since BU and other universities first instituted remote learning and reduced capacity in classrooms, and research opportunities for undergraduates this semester have been no exception to such changes.
Forge Design Studios, which launched last Fall, has brought learning resources and a cohesive design community to BU since its foundation. The group rebranded itself this Spring to help students of all backgrounds begin working with real clients and create design work for their portfolios.
This may mean that much of the purpose of a college education is to begin the process of taking back your worldview from your genes, and that the first step to critical thinking is to learn to disenfranchise your DNA.
On Monday, Lin Tian, Ph.D., professor at UC Davis, and Michael Bruchas, Ph.D., professor at Washington University, spoke at the “Watching the Brain in Action: Creating Tools for Functional Analysis of Neural Circuitry” seminar at the Boston University Photonics Center.
