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BU’s Campus Hunger Challenge invited student teams to dream up solutions to fight hunger in 19- to 26-year-olds. The winning team was selected Tuesday night and will receive $10,000 to advance their proposed solution for addressing the problem.
One Million BU COVID Tests Reached—and Counting BU surpassed one million COVID-19 tests the week of April 26, 2021. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi Public Health One Million BU COVID Tests Reached—and Counting Milestone seen as critical for why the University was able to maintain some on-campus learning and activity April 28, 2021 Twitter Facebook What started with a pilot test program back in summer 2020, when no positive results for the coronavirus were detected among 287 samples, reached a huge milestone on Tuesday: Boston University’s Cl...
Twitter Facebook A year ago this week, Boston University made the unprecedented announcement that it was shutting down dorms and sending students home as the COVID-19 pandemic surged in Boston. As the one-year anniversary of that historic move approached, we invited members of the BU community to tell us their unsung heroes of the pandemic—a teacher, student, staff person, or alum who made a difference in their life, and the life of the University. We heard from dozens of you, giving shout-outs across the University, from BU’s Facilities staff to some of the many COVID collection ...
Twitter Facebook When 2020 began, no one could have imagined it would end with a world turned upside down by a virus no one had ever heard of, a virus that has now claimed the lives of close to two million people, more than 300,000 in the United States alone. Social distancing, mask wearing, and hand sanitizing took on a new urgency. Here at BU, COVID-19 forced the University to quickly adapt to a remote learning model immediately following spring break in March. A massive testing and contact tracing system implemented by the University this summer allowed students to return to campus f...
Twitter Facebook As the BU community approaches a holiday season where the combination of rising COVID-19 numbers and family gatherings is likely to bring as much anxiety as good cheer, the University is hoping to ease some of that angst by making available, on a temporary basis, coronavirus tests for BU community members who are not ordinarily tested: regular full- and part-time faculty and staff and graduate students who are assigned to category 4. The tests, which are funded by the University, are available for those in category 4 at the University’s four asymptomatic collection si...