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Police Reveal What Could've Prevented 3 BU Deaths

AP | Posted 06.12.2013 | College

ROTORUA, New Zealand -- Three Boston University students who were killed last year in New Zealand when their minivan rolled might have survived if the...

3 Myths About Changing the World

Wendy Kopp | Posted 05.19.2013 | College
Wendy Kopp

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life! I'm sure that doesn't sound at all familiar.

After the Marathon Bombings: A Firsthand Account

Tara Skurtu | Posted 05.01.2013 | Crime
Tara Skurtu

The thing that struck me was the number of spectators who returned to the scene, and I keep hearing about more. That man in the cowboy hat, pinching off someone's exposed artery with his bare hands. The woman who ran back to the site to cradle a child.

Lu Lingzi's America

Kaitlin Solimine | Posted 04.26.2013 | College
Kaitlin Solimine

An inclusiveness of mourning Chinese citizens and the students who flock to these shores would not only bolster faith in U.S. institutions and society, but also remind Americans our tragedies are no longer confined within our borders.

Hundreds Gather To Remember Boston Bombing Victim (PHOTOS)

AP | MICHAEL HILL | Posted 04.23.2013 | College

BOSTON — Lu Lingzi was passionate about the piano, a daughter who always made her father laugh and a standout statistics student. She was killed...

Tyler Kingkade

College Students Run To Help After Boston Marathon Explosions

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.17.2013 | Impact

Monday was the first time Boston College sophomore Corey Leonardi ever participated in a marathon. In previous years, Leonardi, who grew up about 50 m...

Could It Be I Love Boston So Much?

Setareh Sabety | Posted 06.16.2013 | Impact
Setareh Sabety

Boston is not a single event nor even a place; Boston is this goodness, this fairness that has traveled far, fleeing tyranny and arrogance both, to come to these shores and breathe free -- you can't bomb it!

If You Want a Revolution, Just Announce One

Jay Halfond | Posted 05.06.2013 | College
Jay Halfond

The national public is thirsty for simple solutions to the escalating costs of going to school. The global public is in search of in-country means of providing higher learning for their exploding middle class.

Boston University Stylishly Bundles Up

CollegeFashionista | Posted 04.08.2013 | Style
CollegeFashionista

When I think about Boston and fashion, I often talk about Newbury Street, which is only a 20-minute walk away from the core of our campus, as being the ultimate people-watching location for any fashion-lover.

WATCH: Hilarious College Parody Of Les MisƩrables

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 12.27.2012 | College

There's no disputing that the job market for recent college grads is tough. But for some enterprising students at Boston University, the struggle to f...

Boston University Student Killed On Bike Wrote His Own Obit

AP | Posted 12.07.2012 | College

BOSTON -- A Boston University graduate student killed while riding his bicycle described the pivotal moment when he decided he wanted to become a phot...

Boston University's Urban Accelerator Program: Helping Businesses and Social Entrepreneurs

Amy Neumann | Posted 12.30.2012 | Impact
Amy Neumann

The BUBA program accomplishes two objectives. First, it helps local small businesses in underprivileged areas gain the tools and training. Second, it helps create student social entrepreneurs with leadership skills.

11 Ideal Inns For A Northeast College Tour

Malerie Yolen-Cohen | Posted 10.23.2012 | Travel
Malerie Yolen-Cohen

Your kid's future alma mater isn't cookie-cutter, so why should your college tour accommodations be?

String Of BU Armed Robberies Has Students Saying 'Enough'

Posted 10.11.2012 | College

After three armed robberies, one attempted armed robbery and two bodies surfacing near campus in the Charles River, Boston University students say the...

Longtime Boston University President And Mass. Gubernatorial Candidate Dies At 86

Huffington Post | William McGuinness | Posted 09.30.2012 | College

Longtime Boston University president and chancellor John Silber has died, according to a letter released to the BU community from current president Ro...

How To Save Your Movie Night From Certain Disaster

Posted 09.13.2012 | College

It's happened to all of us. Comfy on the couch (or futon) and with popcorn popped, we're leaning in for a little snog time when the DVD starts skippin...

BU Sex Charges Probe Describes Wild Parties, Sex In Penalty Box, Entitlement To Sex

The Huffington Post | William McGuinness | Posted 09.10.2012 | College

"Sexually entitled" could be a soft-core description of a hockey team out of control and drunk on victory and its trappings, according to a report obt...

BU Hockey Team Members Are Sexually Entitled, Says Report

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 09.06.2012 | College

Members of the Boston University hockey team, plagued by recent sexual assault allegations, live in a climate of "sexual entitlement" according to an ...

Top 10 Colleges with the Happiest Students

Unigo | Posted 10.30.2012 | College
Unigo

In today's installment of the 2013 Unigo College Rankings we're highlighting those campuses with students who overwhelmingly voted that they were as happy as could be!

Confessions of an Ex-CONAN Intern

Cody Brotter | Posted 09.05.2012 | College
Cody Brotter

Collegiates and their parents alike should listen up to this success story.

Boston University Student Wins Gig at 'TBS Just For Laughs'

Cody Brotter | Posted 08.19.2012 | College
Cody Brotter

BU is on a roll this summer. First a sophomore gets named the prettiest girl in America and now a rising senior gets named the funniest college kid in the country.

'I Want My Mommy': BU Student Wakes From Coma After Deadly Crash

AP | Posted 05.31.2012 | College

BOSTON -- A Boston University student has come out of a medically induced coma more than two weeks after a car crash that killed three college classma...

Google's Schmidt To College Graduates: 'Take Your Eyes Off That Screen'

Reuters | Posted 07.20.2012 | Technology

By Ross Kerber May 20 (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduates on Sunday to take the radic...

My Affair with/Addiction to Yoga

Marjorie Hope Rothstein | Posted 07.18.2012 | Fifty
Marjorie Hope Rothstein

As a nice Jewish girl from Long Island, the chanting of AOUMMM (OM) was strange to me. Here was my first awareness of the Chinese philosophy of Yin/Yang. Siddartha blew me away.

Boston University Student Charged In Horrific Van Crash

AP | NICK PERRY | Posted 07.18.2012 | College

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand police filed charges Friday against a 20-year-old Boston University student who drove a minivan in a crash...