BU Arts & Sciences faculty and students are deeply connected with the city through scholarship, collaboration, and outreach. Our courses take students into the city, our programs bring students from throughout Greater Boston to our Charles River Campus, and our faculty study the people, places, and environments of Boston and beyond, solving problems and creating solutions to challenges facing communities throughout the world. They do this in partnership with the communities that we work in.
Women Making History Today Give Voice to Past Trailblazers at Boston Women’s Memorial
It’s the most powerful cast Megan Sandberg-Zakian has ever directed, and there’s not Tony Award–winner in the bunch. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell.
A BU Class Tackles the Massachusetts Housing Crisis
Katherine Levine Einstein’s students partnered with nonprofit and public planners to brainstorm subsidized housing policy, as part of MetroBridge, a BU program that turns Terriers loose on real-life municipal problems.
Guren Tapped for Economics Expertise by the City of Boston
Adam Guren, an associate professor of economics at the BU College of Arts & Sciences, didn’t expect to end up in housing economics. An active researcher in the fields of macroeconomics and real estate, Guren’s research landed him a role on a team authoring a report for Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, evaluating property tax abatement in Boston.
Boston Archaeology Center honors CAS Professor
The City of Boston’s Archaeology Lab, housed in the city of Boston Archival Center in West Roxbury, recently reopened to the public after a three-year renovation lab. It is now renamed the Mary C. Beaudry Community Archaeology Center, in honor of a Mary Beaudry, a professor of archaeology and of anthropology who was involved in some of the city’s most important archaeological finds, including digs and analysis of objects found at the Paul Revere House in the North End, the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, and the Boston Common.
What the History of Boston’s Harbor Can Teach Us about Its Uncertain Future
Genna Kane (CAS`27), a PhD candidate in BU’s American & New England Studies Program, is researching the history of the Boston waterfront, from its early days as a busy mercantile harbor, through its decades as an industrial center, to its present as a magnet for tourists, high-end housing, and biotech firms. She’s also surveying how the city made itself so vulnerable to sea level changes. Kane’s work was given a boost this spring when she won an Alice Ross Carey Fellowship, which comes with funding and access to the University of California, Berkeley’s Environmental Design Archives.
New BU MetroBridge Class Studies the Impact of Gentrification
Professor of Sociology Loretta Lees’ new Gentrification Studies seminar examines how gentrification extends beyond housing. Lees, who serves as faculty director of BU’s Initiative on Cities, came to BU from the University of Leicester and King’s College London. She also chaired the London Housing Panel, an initiative that recruits community groups for input on housing policy and practice in the city.