Plus, new endowed professorship named for ENG’s Ed Damiano
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COMMUNITY

Boston University Alums Uncover a Glitch Enabling Free MBTA Rides

The transit system’s tap-to-pay technology saves time, but it has a bug

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Photo: Beta Bionic’s Ed Damiano (left) with his son, David Damiano. A white man silver grey hair and wearing a black shirt and grey pants sits and poses next to a younger man with dark brown hair who is wearing a blue shirt and black pants. Both smile and pose in fornt of a blue
wall. Silver letters on wall read "Beta Bionic".
Engineering

New Professorship Honors Innovator Behind the iLet Bionic Pancreas

 
 
Photo: A woman with short hair leans against a blue wall in this posed formal portrait
DEAF STUDIES

Making the World More Accessible for Sign Language Users

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Ice Cream Flavors We Wish We Had in Stock

We heard it was National Ice Cream Day, so naturally we whipped up a few BU-inspired flavors we wish we could actually scoop. P.S. Humanely sourced, no AI used.

 
 
 
 

BU in the News.

 
 
 

Researchers studied AI layoffs. Here’s their warning. BBC Global, July 20

 
 
 
 
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