Campus Life
Photo Gallery provides a visual record of how pandemic transformed BU
March 17, 2021
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One year ago, Boston University was transformed, seemingly overnight, by the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were sent home to finish the spring semester remotely, nonessential staff told to work from home, and a bustling campus suddenly eerily quiet.
In the intervening months, the University has managed to return to
some semblance of normalcy, thanks to an aggressive testing and contact tracing program. But it’s been a year unlike any other—marked by social distancing, masks, a hybrid learning system, and now, the advent of vaccines.