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1 month ago | 
bu.edu | Joel Brown |Jackie Ricciardi
Students learn best when schools and teachers understand and honor their diversity, her research shows Accolades Students learn best when schools and teachers understand and honor their diversity, her research shows Twitter Facebook Students bring their abilities, hopes, and dreams to class, says Tina Durand, “but there are other dimensions of our identities that are going to influence our experience. How we are perceived, how we feel about ourselves, how we understand ourselves and all of...
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2 months ago | 
bu.edu | Alene Bouranova |Jackie Ricciardi
A Sargent student shares her journey, her struggles, and how she helped create a support group on campus.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
bu.edu | Joel Brown |Jackie Ricciardi
Journalism & Media Students have already written stories for more than a dozen community and nonprofit news publications Twitter Facebook BU’s College of Communication journalism department took a big swing this semester, and it’s already paying off for students—and for nonprofit community news outlets in the Boston area. A new COM initiative paired students with various news outlets in the region. Students reported and wrote stories that were edited by their professor before being sent to...
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
bu.edu | Joel Brown |Jackie Ricciardi
Journalism & Media The mother of Boston University’s president, and the first Black woman journalist at the Washington Post, donates her papers toHoward Gotlieb Archival Research Center Twitter Facebook Dorothy Butler Gilliam’s 2019 memoir was titled Trailblazer for good reason. As the first Black woman reporter for the Washington Post, in 1961, she helped open a path for many journalists to follow. At the Post, she went from a young reporter covering the civil rights dramas of the early...
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
bu.edu | Joel Brown |Jackie Ricciardi
BU professor: what’s behind the renaissance Arts & Culture BU professor: what’s behind the renaissance Twitter Facebook Yoon Sun Yang remembers smelling tear gas on her junior high school playground in Seoul back in the late 1980s, as the South Korean people rose up against decades of military dictatorship. Three decades later, Gisele Sanchez was in high school, down in San Antonio, Tex., in the late 2010s, when she fell for the K-pop hits of the Korean boy band BTS. They are two chapters of...
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
bu.edu | Joel Brown |Jackie Ricciardi
Everybody’s got a story about BU’s Campus Planning & Operations area manager, who began as a part-time employee at the former Wheelock College Campus Life Everybody’s got a story about BU’s Campus Planning & Operations area manager, who began as a part-time employee at the former Wheelock College Twitter Facebook Franklin Romero was in high school when he started working part-time at what was then Wheelock College, now the Fenway Campus of Boston University. Mostly moving furniture at first,...
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
bu.edu | Jackie Ricciardi
School of Law careers director spends her days baking, throwing pottery, teaching yoga, and more, all between advising students—and, oh yeah, getting her MBA STAFF School of Law careers director spends her days baking, throwing pottery, teaching yoga, and more, all between advising students—and, oh yeah, getting her MBA Twitter Facebook Glazing and firing a ceramic fortune cookie here, baking a custom birthday cake there, keeping up with coursework for her part-time MBA program, serving as...
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
bu.edu | Devin Hahn |Andrew Thurston |Jackie Ricciardi
What If You Could Use Light to Monitor Blood Pressure? What If You Could Use Light to Monitor Blood Pressure? BU student Natalie Lett explains the science and engineering behind researcher Darren Roblyer’s medical device inventionsAlmost every visit to the doctor starts with a series of quick tests—weight, oxygen levels, blood pressure. Most are pretty straightforward, but one can be a little uncomfortable: the tight squeezing of the blood pressure cuff.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Jessica Colarossi |Jackie Ricciardi
Bucking national trend, new lesbian bar opens in Back Bay LGBTQ+ Nightlife Bucking national trend, new lesbian bar opens in Back Bay Twitter Facebook It wasn’t any Saturday night when I arrived at Dani’s Queer Bar—it was Sapphic Saturday. By 10 pm, the line to enter under the pink-lettered sign stretched down the sidewalk. Once inside, the front room was bustling. Downstairs, the DJ hadn’t started playing, but that didn’t stop patrons from dancing and singing the pop hits blaring over...
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Jackie Ricciardi
Student Life By balancing a love for leadership and for conservation, Ria McGuire is transforming the coffee shop into a space for growth—from reusable cups to student partnerships Twitter Facebook Ria McGuire didn’t always picture herself running a coffee shop. But the Boston University senior’s love for coffee and building communities? That’s always been there. Growing up in the small town of Woodland Park, Colo., McGuire’s formative years were defined by her love of nature and a natural...
