By Lauren Albano, Editor-in-Chief
• February 28, 2025
Donations made by the Musk Foundation to a BU rocketry team uncovered by The Daily Free Press are igniting debates over private donorship and revealing intra-University tensions over the funding it receives.
As colleges across the nation are shrouded in uncertainty over how to proceed in the Fall, BU is among those that have demonstrated a commitment to returning its students to campus.
BU earned a top ten spot in the 2020 rankings of colleges and universities by the Consortium of Social Science Associations. BU came in ninth out of more than 500 institutions considered in the ranking, which allocates positions based on the funding gifted to research and development in the social sciences.
Faculty from across Boston University joined together in October 2018 to share their findings on urban climates as part of a new research program, called the Urban Climate Initiative.
Of all the major academic disciplines, history saw the steepest decline in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the 2016-2017 academic year, according to the 2018 American Historical Association...
Marchant Glacier in Antarctica, originally named for Boston University Earth and environment professor David Marchant, has been renamed in wake of findings that Marchant sexually harassed students.
An award of almost $1 million from the National Science Foundation was recently granted to Boston University College of Engineering professors Kamal Sen and Xue Han to study the cocktail party effect and eventually map out circuits in the brain that contribute to it.
Optimus Ride, a Boston-based self-driving vehicle startup, released a quarterly report that identified inefficient snow removal as an obstacle to self-driving cars in the city.
Rocket manufacturing company SpaceX announced that its new giant rocket, Falcon Heavy, will launch next week — but it won’t be the only launch happening in the next few months. A micro-satellite built...
Scientists are increasingly omitting the term “climate change” in public grant proposals to avoid funding cuts from the Trump administration, according to a recent NPR analysis — a trend some...
By Elise Takahama, Caroline Smith and Solange Hackshaw
The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology has started a bipartisan investigation Thursday on the sexual harassment allegations...
