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Stairs leading to Great Pond, one of a few freshwater ponds in Wellfleet. (Photo by Joanne Rathe/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

What if Sharks Scare Cape Cod Beachgoers to the Fragile Kettle Ponds?

April 19, 2019

Pete Siozios with his tennis racket

Sports

Men’s Tennis to Face Bucknell in Conference Quarterfinals Friday

April 19, 2019

School of Theater Director Jim Petosa, at right, and CFA Dean Harvey Young, at center, chat with Mitch Landrieu, mayor of New Orleans April 10, 2019 at Booth Theater.

New Orleans Mayor

April 19, 2019

Photo of a paper copy of the redacted Mueller Report with cover page up front.

Politics

BU Political Analyst Reviews Mueller Report: “Impeachment Is Going to Happen”

April 18, 2019

people milling about near the chowderfest booth

Earth

BU’s Annual Earth Day Festivals Kick Off Today on Medical Campus

April 18, 2019

South Africa is one place where anti-shark netting has been widely deployed. Photo by Stuart Philpott / Alamy Stock Photo

Nets, Smells, Sounds, and Technologies That Might Protect Us from Sharks

April 18, 2019

Director Yo-EL Cassell, a CFA assistant professor of movement, working with sophomore Derek Crosby (CFA) as Chama (far left) and sophomore Michael Valladares (CFA) as Orville (left), in rehearsal for Sunlight Interior

Theatre

Finding the Inner Light in Painter Edward Hopper’s Characters

April 18, 2019

Black Panther in his titular movie, fighting off helicopters

Diversity

Afrofuturism in the Age of Black Panther

April 18, 2019

Co-leader for DivestBU Masha Vernik (CAS'19) speaks during a rally for divestment in Marsh Plaza

Divest BU

April 18, 2019

portrait of Boston University Trustee Marshall Sloane

Tragic Events

Marshall Sloane, BU Trustee Emeritus and Overseer, Dies at 92

April 17, 2019

BU Figure Skating team

BU Figure Skating Club at USFS Nationals

April 17, 2019

Students

The Weekender: April 18 to 21

April 17, 2019

Fine Arts

CFA Student Wins Poster Contest for Zach Braff Movie

April 17, 2019

Global

Around the World with BU

April 17, 2019

Peter Beinart delivering the 2019 Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture for the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies.

University News

BU’s Rabin Lecture Outlines Split among American Jews

April 16, 2019

Brian Weber

Obituaries

University Community Mourns Death of CAS Freshman

April 16, 2019

Fine art students, their friends. family and strangers attend the MFA thesis exhibition at Laconia Gallery on Apr. 5, 2019. College of Fine Arts students Elizabeth Flood, Katherine Gardener, Zak Shiff, Samuel Guy and Gus Wheeler exhibited their graduate thesis projects.

MFA Exhibition

April 16, 2019

portrait of Jessica Stern

Research

University Terrorism Expert Joins Research into Extremist Violence

April 16, 2019

A view of the BU campus at night

Charles River Campus

BU Late at Night, Captured in Photos

April 16, 2019

David Marchant

University News

University Announces Termination of CAS Professor’s Faculty Appointment

April 12, 2019

University Announces Termination of CAS Professor’s Faculty Appointment