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Japanese American cellist Leo Eguchi (CFA’02). Photo by Justine Cooper

Arts & Culture

Don’t Miss This Powerful Cello Performance Saturday in Chinatown

October 20, 2022

Photo: Alums Les Gordon (left) and Dafna Krouk-Gordon sit in an empty theater and pose for the camera. An older white man wearing glasses and a black long sleeved shirt sits tot he left of an older white woman wearing a white top. They both sit in an empty theater with red seats and smile for the camera.

TV & Film

Keeping a Small-Town Movie House Alive

October 11, 2022

a person wearing jeans and a sweater with their legs crossed writes in a journal outside on a sunny day

Arts & Culture

Alums Submit Original Poems

September 29, 2022

Photo of Michael Russell Gunn (COM’07) and Tristan Roche (COM’20) visiting the set of Thai Cave Rescue in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in northern Thailand. The two stand in a cave giving one armed hugs as they wear helmets with head flashlights on them and smile for the camera.

TV & Film

Thai Cave Rescue Re-creates a Harrowing Story

September 21, 2022

Closeup photo of Eric Jackson. An older, lighter-skinned Black man smiles for the camera.

Obituaries

Eric Jackson, Dean of Boston Jazz Radio, Dies at 72

September 19, 2022

Image: screenshot of Julian Shapiro-Barnum, a young white man wearing glasses and a light blue sweater over a white collared shirt, interviewing a small child eating ice cream. Julian holds a black microphone to the child.

CFA Alum

Julian Shapiro-Barnum (CFA’21) Heads to the Playground for Some Recess Therapy

September 16, 2022

Collage: Photo of Gus D’Angelo. He leans against a tree and wears a black cowboy hat and dark blue plaid shirt. Next to image of cartoon field mouse in a wheel chair dressed in hiking gear.

Books

Introducing Young Readers to the Beauty and Wonder of Our National Parks

August 17, 2022

Photo of Stewart O’Nan, a middle age white man, who wears a dark gray short-sleeve button-down shirt and stands at the shore of a beach. He looks off to his left, and has short white hair and facial hair. The sky behind him is light blue with gray clouds.

Books

In Alum Stewart O’Nan’s Ocean State, Teenage Passion Turns Deadly

August 2, 2022

Joe Wardwell (CFA’99) (right) and artist assistant Quayshaun Owens installing Gotta Go to Work, Gotta Go to Work, Gotta Get a Job at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Watershed in East Boston. Photo by Kris Wilton, courtesy of the ICA

Arts & Culture

Words on Labor, Writ Large at the ICA Watershed

July 25, 2022

SOUTH YARMOUTH, MA - MARCH 5: Sgt. Robert Bolduc, right, leads away Antone C. Costa, 24, of Provincetown, MA after his arrest in Boston and charges of the murders of two Rhode Island women at the Yarmouth Barracks, Massachusetts State Police Headquarters in South Yarmouth, MA on March 5, 1969. Three bodies of young women were discovered on Cape Cod in Truro's woods. Costa was arrested in a Marlboro St. apartment in Boston's Back Bay and arraigned the following day in Provincetown. (Photo by Bill Brett/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Books

Casey Sherman’s New Crime Thriller Revisits Cape Cod Serial Killer

July 19, 2022

At right: Photo of Morel, smiling, while wearing a blue button down shirt and sitting on what looks like a porch, as gray siding can be seen behind him. He is a young person of color, and has short hair, trim at the sides and curly on top. At left: Collage of two people of color, presumably a woman, seated, and a man, standing at right. The woman looks like she's getting ready and has her left leg out towards the man, who holds it by the ankle; perhaps he is helping her put something on. The collage is made from fabric and painted paper. Some lines, such as the legs and faces, are drawn or painted in brown. The back wall is covered with pieces of paper and fabric of various colors and patterns.

Visual Arts

From Art School Star to Art World’s Rising Star

July 13, 2022

Photo of Sumit Sharma (right, in red) and his brother Vanit Sharma (at left, in blue) posing with four packs of Rupee beer at Dorchester Brewing Company. The brothers are Indian American, have dark hair, and smile as they pose. Sumit sits on a metal stool and Vanit stands. A wooden bar and taps are seen behind them.

Entrepreneurial Alum

The Beer to Have When You’re Having More Than One…Curry

July 7, 2022

Janet Lewin helps filmmakers develop the special effects technology needed to bring characters—like the Star Wars droid BB-8—to life on screen. Here Lewin and BB-8 sit in a cinema

TV & Film

Lucasfilm’s Janet Lewin Talks Star Wars and Technology

June 6, 2022

Sci-fi looking computer illustration of a bright blue light coming from somewhere in a dark sky and shining down a technicolor plant that is in bloom. A few swirling clouds are in the sky and there are a few snowflakes around the plant sprout.

Special Issue: BU Research

Can This Interdisciplinary Team Measure Human Flourishing?

May 16, 2022

An illustrated image of a head with a path coming out of the ear, and many vibrant colors and shapes exploding in a large aesthetic design

SPECIAL ISSUE: BU RESEARCH

“When People Don’t Have Resources, They Still Have Imagination”

May 16, 2022

Photo of Weike Wang (GRS’15), a young Asian American woman with shoulder length brown hair and turtle glass. She wears a black blouse and spotted green and yellow skirt and sits with her hands folded as she slightly smiles.

Books

In Alum Weike Wang’s New Novel, Joan Is Okay, a Chinese American Doctor Navigates Job and Family

May 16, 2022

A composite image with the book covers of The Art Of Revision: The Last Word, The Artist And The Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander Vii, And The Making Of Rome, Banned In Boston, The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, And Boston’s Struggle For Justice, Flame In A Stable, The Legendary Toad’s Place: Stories From New Haven’s Famed Music Venue, Music Is Murder, Payback’s A Witch, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, And The Global Battle For Cultural Supremacy, and They Called Us Girls: Stories Of Female Ambition From Suffrage To Mad Men

Books

Reading List: New Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by BU Alums Peter Ho Davies, Daniel M. Kimmel, Jan Brogan, and Others

May 16, 2022

Photo of Melanee Harvey, an assistant professor of art history at Howard University. She is a youngish Black woman, with shoulder-length locs, large cat-eye glasses, who wears a blue floral blouse and a blue knit skirt. She smiles, and clasps her hands on her lap. She sits on a bench in the middle of a gallery. Art hangs on the walls around her.

Alumni

Opening Doors: Melanee C. Harvey (GRS ‘17)

May 12, 2022

two works of art by Nate Ethier. The works are patterned and colorful with greens, blues, reds, and purples

Visual Arts

Gallery: Nate Ethier (CFA’05) Exhibits New Works

April 25, 2022

Photo of Roberto Mighty, an older black man with dark grey hair wearing a navy sweater vest over a white collared shirt, with a brown blazer and jeans, stands with hands on hips in front of a cemetery.

TV & Film

BU Alum Explores World’s Greatest Cemeteries in New PBS Series

April 14, 2022

BU Alum Explores World’s Greatest Cemeteries in New PBS Series