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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives at BMC
Boston Medical Center received 1,950 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Monday. Beginning Wednesday, frontline healthcare workers, among them doctors and nurses from the ICU, the emergency department, and patient floors that treat COVID-19 patients, will be the first vaccinated, as well as those in environmental and support services and other crucial positions who work in areas with positive patients.
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2020 Year in Review: Special Presentation
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The COVID-19 Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know
Two Boston University experts discuss how and when the vaccines arrive at BU and explain why COVID-19 health and safety guidelines won’t change for the spring semester
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Ibram Kendi, Azer Bestavros Team Up to Launch Racial Data Lab
Bringing antiracist researchers together with data scientists to expose and eliminate racial inequities
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Optical Pioneer Jerome Mertz Is BU’s 2020 Innovator of the Year
ENG professor is a prolific inventor whose innovations have made leaps and bounds in microscopy
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Arts & Culture
- Talking Set Design With Afsoon Pajoufar (CFA’19)
- Objects of Her Affection
- Muralist Lena McCarthy Transforms Outdoor Spaces with Her Colorful, Organic Style
Business & Economics
- New Scholarship at MET Seeks to Draw More People of Color into the Wine and Beverage Industry
- My Big Idea: A Digital Platform in India That Connects Students with Tutors
- Alum’s Book Recounts Long Overdue Search for Lost World War II Soldiers
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- Tyler Sit, founding pastor, New City Church
- A Leader Emerges
- BU Wheelock College Charts a Revised Mission
Feedback
- Feedback: Netflix Doc Brings Back Memories, the Impact of BU President Harold C. Case, Commencement Delayed
- Feedback: Gender in Media; the Miracle on Ice; Remembering COM’s Betsy Dickinson
- Feedback: Campaign Impact; Timely Research
Government & Law
- In a Turbulent Time, Ibram X. Kendi and BU’s Center for Antiracist Research Will Help Lead the Way Forward
- A Quiet Legal Giant: LAW’s Robert Burdick
- Historic 2020 Election a “Momentous Episode in the Story of American Democracy”
Health & Medicine
- Marcelle Willock, Pioneering Physician and BU Medical School Leader
- 2020 ENG Grad Fighting Waste and Food Insecurity
- A Zombie’s Guide to Healthy Eating: New Picture Book Makes Family Dinnertime Fun
Science & Technology
- Alums’ Green Papers Website, 20 Years On, Is Still Tracking Election Returns
- Could Alum’s New Device Improve Flight Safety for Small Planes?
- 2020 ENG Grad Fighting Waste and Food Insecurity
Sports
- Travis Roy, Terrier Hockey Player Paralyzed in 1995, Dies at 45.
- The BU Alum behind the NBA’s High-Tech Fan Cheers, Chants, and Chatter
- SPH Alum Is Chasing Her Olympic Dream
Tributes
- “Father of Psychiatric Rehabilitation”
- A Quiet Legal Giant: LAW’s Robert Burdick
- Tributes: Rev. Gil Caldwell (GRS’55, Hon.’59), Robert Trump (DGE’68, CAS’72)
University News
- First Virtual Alumni Weekend Brings BU Community Together
- College in the COVID-19 Era
- In a Turbulent Time, Ibram X. Kendi and BU’s Center for Antiracist Research Will Help Lead the Way Forward