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The City of Boston polling locations webpage. Multiple polling locations in the Boston University area reported low in-person voter turnout on Tuesday. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Lack of in-person voter turnout at state primary prompts questions about uninformed voters, November excitement around Boston

Lauren Albano September 3, 2024
Early in-person and mail-in ballot turnout saw a major increase this year for the Massachusetts State Primary. However, polling locations in the Boston University area saw low in-person voter turnout on primary day.
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BUPD officers tackle alleged suspect, raising concern among students

Vanessa Bartlett April 23, 2021
Several students witnessed and filmed the incident involving the supposed repeat trespasser.
COVID-19 testing site at Boston University’s Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering building. Students who show up to University testing sites during cleaning hours or shift changes instead of their designated testing times have caused lines to form outside. ROBERT BRANNING/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Lines form at BU COVID-19 testing centers during cleaning hours

Emily Stevenson October 22, 2020
Short lines have been forming outside of on-campus COVID-19 testing centers during cleaning hours and shift changes in recent weeks, after students largely started off the semester completing their tests within minutes.
Director of the Boston University Precision Diagnostics Center Catherine Klapperich demonstrates how to self-administer a nasal swab test for COVID-19 in a video posted on TikTok. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Frequent COVID-19 testing to occur through Fall

Julia Ermi July 29, 2020
All students learning in person at BU this Fall will be tested for COVID-19 twice a week and will be required to adhere to the new Massachusetts travel guidance, the University announced Monday in an email to the BU community.
Visitors browse art pieces on display at the NeuroArts Forum hosted at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering on Friday. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston-area professors discuss the brain at annual forum

Joel Herbert October 17, 2019
Questions were posed — and some were even answered — at the annual NeuroArts Forum at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering on Oct. 11. 
Jacqueline Ashmore, executive director for the BU Institute for Sustainable Energy, spoke on the connected nature of water and electric utilities Friday in the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering. CONNYR LU/ DFP STAFF

BU professor explores water, energy innovation as part of symposium series

Julia Maruca April 2, 2019

Gesturing to an image of flowing water on her screen, Jacqueline Ashmore asked audience members to consider where their water came from. Ashmore, the executive director for the Boston University...

Attendees at the one-day Queer and Feminist Research methods workshop on Feb. 22 at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering. Boston University’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Department hosted the conference. RIKI STOUT/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

One-day conference examines feminist and queer research methods

Kaitlyn Riggio February 28, 2019
Boston University’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Department hosted the day of discussions and workshops as an educational opportunity to share feminist and queer research methodology with graduate students who are working toward dissertations on Friday.
Zeynep Soysal, a philosophy professor at the University of Rochester, spoke at talk entitled "Intended Interpretations in Mathematics: Revisiting Putnam's Paradox" Monday in Boston University’s Kilachand Center for Life Sciences and Engineering. COURTESY OF CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Legacy of Harvard philosopher honored in series of lectures

Eli Kramer February 7, 2019
A group of professors from across the globe gathered to discuss the theories of famous philosopher, Hilary Putnam, concerning language, perception and consciousness Sunday
Marian Gilton, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, speaks at an event commemorating the centennial of Emmy Noether’s theorems at CILSE Friday afternoon. COURTESY OF CENTER OF PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Boston science colloquium honors acclaimed 20th century mathematician Emmy Noether

Amelia Murray-Cooper December 6, 2018
A century after mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether created theorems in abstract algebra and theoretical physics, scholars from across the country gathered in Boston to discuss her legacy.
From left to right: Lisbeth Gronlund, Michael Short and David Schumacher speak after a screening of Schumacher’s documentary film “The New Fire.” SERENA YU/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

‘The New Fire’ screening confronts nuclear energy misconceptions to promote eco-friendly technologies

Amelia Murray-Cooper October 18, 2018
Students and Boston University community members gathered to view a screening of “The New Fire,” an independent film directed by David Schumacher, and learned about tools to use in the future that could avoid global catastrophe.
EDITORIAL: BU should fix what’s broken before building new science center

EDITORIAL: BU should fix what’s broken before building new science center

Editors September 30, 2018

In yet another move to expand room for the sciences on campus, Boston University has proposed building a 19-story tower at the heart of campus housing a data sciences center.   Gary Nicksa, senior...

James Sullivan has been promoted to vice president of government and community affairs. The current vice president, Robert Donohue, is retiring on May 1. PHOTO COURTESY JACKIE RICCIARDI

University names new vice president of government and community affairs

JenRacoosin April 24, 2018
Boston University Assistant Vice President of Government and Community Affairs Jake Sullivan has been promoted to vice president of the same office. He will replace current Vice President Robert Donahue, who is retiring after 32 years at BU.
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