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Arts & Culture

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

Photo of Lynae Vanee Bogues sitting in a dark blue velvet chair in front of small, potted palm trees with a stack of books by Black authors sitting in a neat pile on a white side table next to her. A young black woman with shoulder length faux locs and a multicolored blouse and bright yellow skirt sits with fingers crossed in front of her chin as she poses seriously for the camera.

Arts & Culture

Lynae Vanee Bogues Sheds Light on Often Overlooked Black History in Her IGTV Series Parking Lot Pimpin’

April 11, 2022

Nicholas Brown plays the clarinet as the conductor and orchestra accompany him

Music

My Big Idea: An Orchestra for All

April 5, 2022

Style

My Big Idea: Emma Johnson

March 28, 2022

Candid photo of Fred Zollo as he stands in front of a red "Orphan" movie premiere background. An older white man with gray hair and wearing a grey shirt and black blazer smiles at the camera

Theatre

Five Questions for Broadway Producer Fred Zollo

March 25, 2022

Still from the movie Summer of Soul featuring Fifth Dimension during a performance. They wear orange, yellow and brown outfits, including jackets with fringe and bell bottom pants. The women at right at the microphone raises her hands as she sings. Three men at right sing into one microphone.

FILM

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

March 24, 2022

Photo of Erich Schwartzel (COM’09), a light skinned man with short brown hair. He wears a black polo shirt and leans on a sliding glass door with this right hand.

Books

How China’s Box Office Shapes the Movies Americans See

March 23, 2022

Louis Chude Sokei sits in front of a gray background in a green shirt

African American Studies

University Lecture: Louis Chude-Sokei Aims to Challenge Conventional Narratives about Race and Technology

March 22, 2022

Composite image: at left, Photo of Pastry chef Tie Whittaker (MET’12), owner of dessert company Buttermilk Boutique, holding an award. Whittaker is a young Black woman, wearing a black chef's jacket and cheetah print headband, smiles as she holds the glass award in her hands. At right, a photo of a three-tiered tower of macarons, with bright pink ones in the bottom tier and pale pink ones in the upper two tiers.

Food

Keeping Her Grandmothers’ Recipes Alive

March 21, 2022

Photo of Missy Mazzoli, a white women with long brown hair. She wears a brown dress and is caught mid-turn on a roof with artistic graffiti covering it's walls. A city scene can be seen in the distance.

Classical Music

Opening Doors: Missy Mazzoli (CFA’02)

March 10, 2022

Collage of 5 photos of various women BU alums. Photos from left to right of: Bonnie Hammer, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lucy Wheelock, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Women’s History Month

11 History-Making, History-Shaping Women from Boston University

March 2, 2022

Photo of Christine Riccio (COM’12) sitting on a cement staircase outside and hugging three copies of her book "Better Together." Riccio has long, wavy blonde hair and tilts her head as she smiles. She wears a white blouse with white sleeves and tan corduroy overalls.

Books

Alum Christine Riccio Turned a Love of Reading into a Career as a YouTuber and an Author

March 1, 2022

Photo of an 11-week-old Basset Hound. The hound is held by its owner who wears a tan p-coat with a repeated pattern.

Photography

Fetching Success for The Dogist

February 3, 2022

Fetching Success for The Dogist