Boston University

Boston University  commonly referred to as BU or otherwise known as is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. 

The university is is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

 BU is categorized as an Research University  in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

 The university counts seven Nobel Laureates,Pulitzer Prize winners, nine Academy Award winners, and several Emmy and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. 

BU is a member of the Boston Consortium for Higher Education and the Association of American Universities.

 The university has more than 3,800 faculty members and 33,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers.

 BU also has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences members among its past and present graduates and faculty.

 It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through eighteen schools and colleges on two urban campuses. 

The main campus is situated along the Charles River in  while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston's South End neighborhood.  

The Boston University Terriers compete in the NCAA's Division I. BU athletic teams compete in the Patriot League, and Hockey East conferences, and their mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. 

Boston University is well known for men's hockey, in which it has won five national championships,     

  He is known for his contributions to , a philosophical branch of liberal theology.The movement he led is often referred to as Boston .
Helen  White, the first woman to receive a.D. from an American university

 After receiving a year's salary advance to allow him to pursue his research in 1875, Alexander Graham Bell, then a professor at the university, invented the telephone in a Boston University laboratory. In 1876, Borden Parker was 

 appointed professor of philosophy. , an important figure in the history of American religious thought, was an American Christian philosopher and theologian in the Methodist tradition.

a degree in theology in the United States, but the Methodist Church would not ordain Robinson who graduated from the university's law school in 1881, became the first woman admitted to the bar in Massachusetts.Solomon Carter Fuller, who graduated from the university's School of Medicine in 1897, became the first black psychiatrist in the United States and would make significant contributions to the study of Alzheimer's disease

 

The university continued its tradition of openness in this period. In 1877, Boston University became the first American university to award  woman when classics scholar Helen White earned hers with a thesis on "The Greek Drama." Then in 1878 Anna Oliver became the first woman to receive