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When Boston University officials suspended University contributions to the BU Retirement Plan on July 1, 2020, citing the financial impact from the coronavirus pandemic, it seemed straightforward. It was not, and now those contributions are being restarted, with a few changes.
Effort will connect policy with research, and use lessons from Ebola and COVID to prepare lawmakers, institutions and public for next crisis.
Moderna Therapeutics, Inc., cofounder and chairman Noubar Afeyan (Hon.’21) told graduates at BU’s advanced degree ceremony May 16 that their COVID-19 experience should drive them to innovate.
BU Adds Juneteenth as an Annual Holiday in University Calendar Antiracist Makeover An African American band at an Emancipation Day celebration on June 19, 1900, in Austin, Tex. The event marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. Starting this year, it will become an official University holiday. Photo courtesy of Mrs. Charles (Grace Murray) Stephenson/Austin History Center General Collection Photographs/The Portal to Texas History University News And Columbus Day will be renamed Indigenous Peoples’ Day May 13, 2021 Twitt...
Benefits, problems of remote work are the main topics Administration will make final decision on committee recommendations Work from home? Spend a full week at the office? Or split the difference? The Committee on the Future of Staff Work is trying to determine what role remote work can or should play for more than 5,000 of Boston University’s nonfaculty employees, as a well-vaccinated BU returns to a more normal life this fall after more than a year of historic impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. All staff will receive an email from the Office of the Provost today, Monday, May 3, announci...