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New This Year: Post Photos, Social Media Messages to Nickerson Videoboard

May 19, 2017

Student taking selfies with mascot Rhett

BU Pub Closing for Renovations

May 19, 2017

Svea Schreiner, Kasey Schultz, Adrienne Lotoski, Magdalena Buczek, and Ian Quillen on steps of Marsh Chapel

University News

Graduating Students Share Their Spiritual Journey

May 18, 2017

Some 20,000 people will be on campus this weekend to celebrate with the Class of 2017. On Sunday, graduates and their families gather on Nickerson Field for the 144th Annual All-University Commencement ceremony.

University News

A Guide to This Year’s Commencement Weekend

May 18, 2017

Bonnie Hammer, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group

Commencement

Alum Bonnie Hammer Isn’t Afraid of Change

May 18, 2017

Jason Taylor set up blower test to find drafts

Earth House

May 18, 2017

Since the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, security at BU’s Commencement has intensified, as attendees at last year’s event discovered.

University News

Security Dos and Don’ts

May 18, 2017

LAW’s Naomi Mann was inspired to seek social justice by her late father, a prominent doctor combating AIDS in the 1980s.

Commencement

2017 Metcalf Cup and Prize Goes to LAW’s Naomi Mann

May 17, 2017

Freddy Franco of Wilder Painting refreshes the paint on Nickerson Field

Commencement Preparations

May 17, 2017

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Business & Law

POV: Now Is Not the Time to Cut Funding for Public Broadcasting

May 17, 2017

Mario J. Molina, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winner, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California San Diego

Public Health

Nobel Winner Mario Molina Is Baccalaureate Speaker

May 17, 2017

Marsh Chapel Choral Scholars and staff (top row, from left) Patrick T. Waters, Douglas Dodson, Ethan DePuy, and Sean Watland, conducting fellow; (middle row, from left) Justin Thomas Blackwell, Marsh Chapel associate director of music, Carey Shunskis, Kim Leeds, and Scott Allen Jarrett, Marsh Chapel director of music; (bottom row, from left) Junhan Choi and MaryRuth Lown.

University News

Marsh Chapel Program Grooms Vocalists for International Careers

May 16, 2017

Facilities ground crew members planting flowers

Planting

May 16, 2017

David Ortiz aka Big Papi

Red Sox

Thank You, Big Papi

May 16, 2017

Gary Lawson, Philip S. Beck Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, and winner of the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching

University News

A Very Different Path to Excellence

May 16, 2017

Yuanhao Zhang drumming

Drum Circle

May 15, 2017

Sophie Godley, winner of one of this year’s Metcalf Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Commencement

SPH’s Sophie Godley to Receive a 2017 Metcalf Award

May 15, 2017

Robert and Jeanne Knox have given more than three decades of collective service, and two children, to BU.

Alumni

Honorary Degrees Being Given to Robert A. and Jeanne Knox

May 15, 2017

BU students with elementary school music students

Making Music Program

May 15, 2017

Samantha Zipper packing up car

Moving Out

May 12, 2017