A 38-year-old lecturer at Boston University died in a tragic elevator accident this week. Professor Carrie O’Connor, who had previously taught French at MIT, Tufts, and Northeastern, had just started her second year of full-time teaching at Boston University. She reportedly became trapped between the elevator car and the first-floor door of her building.
Boston University announced this week that students will be suspended if they attend a gathering or party of more than 25 people. The new policy comes as part of a larger plan to mitigate the spread of the Chinese virus on campus. The university has also set up a 24-hour hotline for students to report their peers for breaking the rules.
Boston University announced this week that it will grant posthumous degrees to students that pass away prior to their graduation. However, posthumous degrees will only be awarded to students that completed a substantial amount of coursework in their program prior to their passing.
Professors at universities and colleges around the country continue to express fear over plans to return to campus this fall.
Boston University announced this week that it will be using “specialized robots” to test students for the Chinese virus upon their return to campus this fall. The university also announced that it will utilize contact tracing to mitigate the spread of the virus on campus.
Boston University and Georgia Tech are currently investigating suspected cheating by students in online final exams. The exams, which were recently administrated online, have sparked a conversation in academic about cheating on online exams.
More colleges and universities have announced plans to reopen their campuses in the fall, including Purdue, North Carolina State, and Michigan State. Most American colleges and universities were forced to shut down their campuses in March to mitigate the spread of the Chinese virus, and some, like Boston University, have suggested that campuses would remain closed until 2021.
The Chinese virus may keep some American colleges and universities closed until 2021. Institutions such as Boston University have already told students that campus may remain closed through the upcoming fall semester.
Medical schools in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey are graduating students early so that they can join the front line fight against the coronavirus.
A new public service announcement is taking a direct shot at youth tackle football, by claiming that participating in the sport is “just like smoking.”
Boston University Professor Nathan Phillips was arrested last week during a climate change protest event.
Tuition for Boston University’s new online MBA program is $30,000 cheaper than its on-campus alternative, partially based on the fact that the online MBA program strips away all electives, leaving the five core modules of an MBA degree.
78 per cent of students who identify as trans, non-binary, or “genderqueer” meet the criteria for at least one mental disorder, according to Boston University research.
Boston University Medical Professor: Dentists Should Refuse to Help ICE Determine Migrants’ Ages
A Boston University professor suggests taxing — as well as suspending the social media account — of those who spread “fake news.” The professor insists that he does not want to regulate free speech, but rather, punish people for the damage caused by their free speech.
A study on state-level gun control laws in the U.S. shows that bans on “high-capacity” magazines and “assault weapons” do not lower homicide rates.
A guest lecturer at Boston University last week told students that it is “dangerous” for white students to not see race.
Massachusetts legislators are mulling a ban on tackle football for the state’s children, according to a report.
Democratic-socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Congressional candidate, was unable to explain her claim of “occupation of Palestine” in a PBS interview, although she graduated in 2011 with a degree in economics and international relations.
A study by the Boston University School of Medicine suggests high crime in gun-controlled states may be due to lax laws in states with fewer gun controls.
Attacked as a “white nationalist,” U.S. tennis player Tennys Sandgren vehemently denied the accusation as he sought to continue his rise at the 2018 Australian Open.
A Boston University professor received a public reprimand from his dean and negative attention from the Boston Globe, the Associated Press, and other local and national outlets for writing a negative review of a swank Cambridge, Massachusetts, eatery.
California launch of recreational marijuana sales is about to help the state’s $34 billion wine industry go even “higher” with marijuana-infused varietals.
Boston University alumni are threatening to withhold donations until the institution divests from companies that are exploring fossil fuel reserves.
The death of World War Two concentration camp survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was mourned on Sunday by admirers worldwide who honored his life-long fight for millions of Holocaust victims.
A report by congressional Democrats charging the NFL with tampering in the granting procedures of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has collapsed after revelations that nearly half of the NFL money already allocated by the federal agency went to the group the league supposedly sought to blackball.
On June 19, a man with a long criminal history, who was allegedly armed with a knife near Boston University, was shot and killed by a Massachusetts state trooper.
A “global education” workshop for high school students given by a Boston University group and reportedly compliant with the Common Core standards encourages Jewish students to empathize with Hamas and teaches that the United States’ use of military drones is terrorism.
