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SPECIAL ISSUE: BU RESEARCH

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

May 16, 2022

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Special Issue: BU Research

Observation, Calculation, Imagination

May 16, 2022

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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

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AAPI Heritage Month

These 10 Asian American and Pacific Islander Alums Are Changing the World

April 29, 2022

ROME, ITALY - FEBRUARY 02: Pope Francis leads a mass on the world Day of Consacrated life at St. Peter's Basilica, on February 02, 2022 in Rome, Italy. Pope Francis leads a Holy Mass with the members of the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life to celebrate the 26th World Day For Consecrated Life. (Photo by Eric Vandeville/Vatican Pool - Corbis/Getty Images)

Religion

Should Women Be Ordained Catholic Deacons?

April 26, 2022

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Bostonia Invites Alums to Send Us an Original Poem

April 26, 2022

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Feedback

Feedback: Terriers and the Priesthood; More Thoughts on Ibram X. Kendi; Alum George Wein Remembered; and More

April 25, 2022

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Tributes

CAS’ Seymour M. “Mike” Miller Was an Influential Sociologist

April 25, 2022

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Tributes

Remembering Three Alums and a Pardee Professor Emeritus

April 25, 2022

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Visual Arts

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

April 25, 2022

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School Of Theology

New Associate Dean For Students and Community Life

April 25, 2022

Alum Jane Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Remmie Health holds the ear infection detection device she designed. Photo by Ron Wurzer for Boston University Photography

Innovation

My Big Idea: Helping Parents Avoid Repeated Trips to the Pediatrician’s Office

April 22, 2022

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Space

BU Alum Robert Hines Is on a Mission—to the International Space Station

April 21, 2022

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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

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Music

My Big Idea: An Orchestra for All

April 5, 2022

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Aid for Ukraine

BU Alum and Ukraine Native Organizes Aid for Her Homeland

March 31, 2022

Style

My Big Idea: Emma Johnson

March 28, 2022

My Big Idea: Emma Johnson

My Big Idea

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