Rich Barlow

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Boston University Catholics and experts offer takes on what Pope Leo XIV’s priorities should be Voices & Opinion Boston University Catholics and experts offer takes on what Pope Leo XIV’s priorities should be Twitter Facebook The Roman Catholic Church made history in Rome on Thursday when the College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost pope, the first American to be chosen to head the Church. As Leo XIV, the Chicago native will lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. Now 69,...

1 week ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

Times, places, security, transportation, more University News Times, places, security, transportation, more Twitter Facebook Boston University’s 152nd All-University Commencement, on Sunday, May 18, will mark two firsts. The Class of 2025 will be the first to say farewell to BU under the leadership of President Melissa Gilliam. And for the first time, tickets (which are free) will be required for the Nickerson Field ceremony. Graduating students registered for digital tickets for themselves...

1 week ago | bu.edu | Rich Barlow

Student Life Renowned Cambridge club a perfect venue for students’ final presentations, focused on the highs and lows in the city’s musical heritage Twitter Facebook History, like music, pulses with recurring refrains. Today’s battle over immigrant rights echoes a controversy, aptly, from Boston’s musical history. Boston University students explained that episode last week on an equally apt, if unorthodox, stage: Club Passim, Cambridge’s iconic folk music venue. Beantown’s musical heritage...

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BU experts offer advice for how to protect yourself Health & Medicine BU experts offer advice for how to protect yourself Twitter Facebook With recreational use of marijuana now legal in 24 states, access to cannabis has soared in recent years. So too has its THC content—to potentially dangerous levels. Whereas in the 1990s, cannabis averaged less than 4 percent THC—the main psychoactive ingredient of the cannabis plant—that level quadrupled by 2022, according to the National Institute on...

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Lauren Consalvo, Andrew Abrahamson, and Lori Davis to be honored at annual ceremony celebrating BU community members who have provided distinguished service to the University Accolades Lauren Consalvo, Andrew Abrahamson, and Lori Davis to be honored at annual ceremony celebrating BU community members who have provided distinguished service to the University Twitter Facebook Lauren Consalvo (CAS’09, Wheelock’12, Questrom’18) has weathered several crises during her 20-plus years at Boston...