Boston University

A tool to help you find the ideal Massachusetts communities for your needs.

Before a teeming crowd of Boston University’s newest alumni, Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp urged graduates of the...

Boston University conferred degrees to thousands of its students today, but singled out two of its students who died before...

Mortar boards will fly at Nickerson Field Sunday, after Boston University’s Class of 2013 morphs from students to graduates....

The dreaded last post. You have to read it. It's kind of a rule.

After 15 seasons on the coaching staff of the Boston University men’s hockey team, associate head coach Mike Bavis...

I sometimes realize that other people exist

With nearly 20,000 parents, faculty, friends, and graduates expected to converge on Boston University’s campus this weekend,...

Part II of Beyond the Flames and Smoke

Local colleges and universities have begun broadcasting live webcasts of commencement services over the past few years, enabling...

Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s acclaimed classic, The Great Gatsby, is exactly what...

This memoir is all about a little girl, a stubborn avocado tree and learning a life lesson.

Modern medicine is wonderful. It truly is. I’ve trudged through so many colds, flus, sprained ankles, broken noses,...

Police officials from BU, Boston, and Brookline are teaming up this week to give away hundreds of free helmets to cyclists...

"Gangnam Style" met the Ivy League on Thursday, May 9 when Korean pop star PSY spoke at Memorial Church in a conversation...

By Edward Donga BU News Service On Nov. 16, 2009, Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, 37, died of heart failure in Moscow’s...

View highlights from live election night special broadcast, Decision 2012.

On a day that’s normally joyous as runners cross the Boston Marathon finish line, BU News Service switched from chronicling...

A team of 100 students, faculty and staff produced unprecedented team coverage of the 2012 presidential election. Here’s...

A Boston University school official confirmed that the Dean of Students and members of the University Council are discussing...

PTC Inc., a Needham company specializing in product lifecycle management and computer-aided design software, has given a...

"Gangnam Style" sensation PSY visited Harvard Thursday, regaling students about what it's like to become an international...

Hello hello blogosphere. I'm here to deliver the much anticipated blog post about the most celebrated Mexican holiday in...

At Senior Breakfast on Friday, President Brown named Wendy Kopp, Founder and Chair of the Board of the national teaching...

It’s here–that ephemeral time of year when things begin to grow, when the air starts to smell sweet and fresh,...

Ben Thompson views climate change as a slow apocalypse. The issue is dire enough to the soft-spoken math grad student that...

Investigators have determined that the Allston fire that killed a Boston University student last week was caused by the careless...

If you were to move to any Massachusetts community, where should you go? We analyzed and ranked each towns crime rateincluding violent and property crime,the number of public transit...

Here's a slideshow of the 10 towns with the cheapest home values in Massachusetts. Towns are ranked based on their assessed value for single family homes for the 2013 fiscal year. Data...

How fun is your town? We ranked the top 10 most fun communities in Massachusetts by analyzing the number of restaurants, theaters, and museums, using Tripadvisor and other online sources,...

Calculate your ideal Massachusetts community using our Dreamtown Finder. To determine the best cities and towns with the best schools, The Boston Globe analyzed SAT scores and student-teacher...

Calculate your ideal Massachusetts community using our Dreamtown Finder. Don your black-rimmed glasses and skinny jeans. Drink up that latte from an indie coffee shop. Head over to...

Are you looking for schedule details on college commencements in Massachusetts or around Boston? This database will be updated as more colleges release their commencement information.