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Computers

Andrew Sellars, director of the School of Law’s Technology Law Clinic, seen in a file photo meeting with students (from left) and Luke Sutherland (LAW’19), Courtney Merrill (LAW’19), and former senior program coordinator Jess Martinez.

Law

BU and MIT Renew Partnership on Technology Law

July 16, 2020

Graphic of Project Crane team members Ian Saucy (CAS’21) and Rachael Dier (COM’20), with a screen shot from their project. One screenshot reads "Tracking Racism around COVID-19 on Twitter," the other shows trends graphs and is titled "Frequency of Sinophobic Slurs on Twitter”

Innovation

BU Spark! Hacking COVID-19

July 6, 2020

A composite image of portrait photos of Abbas Attarwala and Matthew Fox

Awards

CAS Computer Scientist and SPH Epidemiologist Win University Teaching Awards

June 1, 2020

Screenshots of the RideFair app demoed at BU Spark!'s demo day. Three phone screenshots demonstrate how users can use the app to get from Warren Towers to Boston Public Library.

Computational Science

BU Spark! Innovation Fellows and X-Lab Practicum Programs Name Best Idea, Tech, and Design Winners

May 18, 2020

Screenshot of a recreation of Boston University’s campus in the popular video game Minecraft. Image shows BU's central campus. Terriers have used Minecraft to create a national, virtual college graduation.

Gaming & Graduation

Terriers Build a Global Commencement and BU’s Campus, All in Minecraft

May 5, 2020

Illustration of a woman working on a laptop at home in bird cage as pathogens of the COVID-19 virus float around. A cat sits on top of the bird cage.

Coronavirus

Coping with Being Cooped Up

March 20, 2020

Portrait of Elizabeth Slade (ENG’20), Cofounder and director of BU chapter of Hack4Impact, sitting with her computer open off to the side.

Student Life

Terriers in Charge: Elizabeth Slade (ENG’20)

March 11, 2020

Portrait of Azer Bestavros who looks through a chain link fence towards the site of BU's new Data Sciences building.

Computational Science

Game Changer: Azer Bestavros’ Journey from Egypt to Cambridge to BU’s Computing Mastermind

March 4, 2020

Portrait of Danielle Citron

Law

Q&A: LAW’s Danielle Citron Warns That Deepfake Videos Could Undermine the 2020 Election

September 11, 2019

Mariette DiChristina

Climate Change

New College of Communication Dean Is Scientific American Editor-in-Chief

June 6, 2019

A portrait of Xin Zhang

Computers

ENG’s Xin Zhang Is BU’s 2018 Innovator of the Year, First Woman Chosen

October 24, 2018

An artistic portrait of the three BU alums who created scriptiation

Arts & Culture

Scriptation Aims to Make Hollywood Paperless

October 4, 2018

Red Hat Presentation

Strategy & Innovation

Open-Source Summer in the Seaport

September 4, 2018

Student director Charles Gagnon

Technology

Ready Camera One

August 1, 2018

smash bros society gathers in the basement

Computers

BU Smash Bros. Society Thrives on Nintendo Mayhem

April 30, 2018

Louis Chude-Sokei

Wellness

Louis Chude-Sokei Wants African American Studies Program to Be a Central Place

April 26, 2018

Science & Technology

BU Cybersecurity Expert on How to Protect Yourself from Internet Scams

April 10, 2018

graphic depicting the rising value of Ripple, Ethereum, and Bitcoin

Economy

Investing in Cryptocurrency: Do or Don’t?

January 30, 2018

SheHacks Boston

Technology

SheHacks Boston Student Organizers Are #makingthenewnormal

January 26, 2018

Participants in the Storytelling with Data Workshops will learn methods for scraping from a web site and new data visualization techniques.

Business & Law

Data Storytelling Is for Everyone

May 30, 2017

Data Storytelling Is for Everyone