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Boston University campus reacts to the announcement of President Robert A. Brown’s retirement at the end of the school year.

This year’s event marked the largest indoor campus gathering since COVID began, and students were urged to do their part to keep everyone safe.

Twitter Facebook As BU scrambled to build a COVID-19 testing lab from the ground up last spring, its scientific director, Catherine Klapperich, tapped trusted help for an endeavor fraught with unknown safety risk: her former student and current colleague Lena Landaverde (ENG’13,’17), assistant director of the College of Engineering’s Precision Diagnostics Center. “Since May 2020, Lena has been my equal partner” in the Charles River Campus Clinical Testing Laboratory, wrote Klapperich, an ENG professor and vice chair of biomedical engineering. “She is my hands in the lab and ...

Twitter Facebook One year after the fast-spreading worldwide COVID-19 pandemic forced Boston University to shut down its campuses and move to remote teaching and learning to help contain the deadly virus, President Robert A. Brown announced plans on Friday to return to a far more normal campus life next fall.  In letters sent to the Boston University community (one to faculty and staff, a separate one to students and parents), Brown wrote that current guidance suggests that the ongoing widespread and accelerating national vaccination, and the diminishing presence of the virus, should m...

In this special edition of BU’s weekly COVID-19 report, The Brink asked Gloria Waters and Judy Platt to explain why variant sequencing is important and whether it will impact people at BU.