In the wake of pandemic-related safety measures within dining halls, BU faces roadblocks in its progress toward its Zero Waste objective.

Federal authorities announced Tuesday that former Boston University researcher Yanqing Ye was indicted by a grand jury for charges of conspiracy, visa fraud and acting as an agent of a foreign government. Ye was a researcher at BU’s Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering's Center for Polymer Studies from 2017 to 2019.