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Awards

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Design

Reimagining Public Spaces

February 14, 2025

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Music

Composer Valerie Coleman Explores the Dark Side of Jubilation

January 30, 2025

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Alumni Weekend

Celebrate Alumni Weekend 2024 with These Six Community Events

September 26, 2024

Accolades

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Welcomes Five BU Members

April 26, 2024

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University News

William Fairfield Warren Society Inducts New Members

March 22, 2024

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Accolades

Alum Composer Is Up for Two Grammys Sunday

February 1, 2024

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Accolades

BU’s Most Powerful Women, and Other Forbes Influencers

January 25, 2024

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Accolades

Jazzman Bill Banfield Receives President’s Call to Service Award

November 28, 2023

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Accolades

Music Journalist, and BU Alum, Makes Inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 Local Boston List

November 14, 2023

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Alumni Weekend

Make the Most of a Packed Alumni Weekend 2023 with These Events

September 20, 2023

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Alumni

Pulitzer Prize–Winning Poet Carl Phillips Finds Inspiration in Mundanity

June 5, 2023

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Accolades

Young Alum Wins Prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship

May 9, 2023

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TV & Film

Fighting for Equity

March 27, 2023

The cast of A Strange Loop, the acclaimed musical by Michael R. Jackson, is nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including best sound design of a musical for Drew Levy (CFA’03,’04). The show, which won the Pulitzer Prize for best drama, explores sexuality, race, and gender. Here the cast is pictured in full costume, standing in a line looking at the camera. Photo by Marc J. Franklin

Theatre

Terriers Heading to the Tonys Sunday

June 7, 2022

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FILM

Updated: David Dinerstein (COM’84) Takes Home Oscar for Best Documentary

March 24, 2022

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Alumni

Meet the Four Alums Who Made the Forbes “30 Under 30” and New “50 Over 50” Lists

March 15, 2022

Bass Morris Robinson (CFA’01) says he’s happy to be performing live again after a year and a half singing mainly on Zoom. Photo by Lawrence Brownlee

Music

Opera Singer Morris Robinson (CFA’01) on Working with Acclaimed Conductor Gustavo Dudamel

January 28, 2022

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Accolades

Trio of BU Alums Makes the Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen List

December 17, 2020

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Alumni

New Scholarship at MET Seeks to Draw More People of Color into the Wine and Beverage Industry

November 19, 2020

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Arts & Culture

Alum Steve Locke Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

July 13, 2020

Alum Steve Locke Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship