Bostonia: The Alumni Magazine of Boston University

Professor Jim Collins Genius at Work
By Tricia Brick
Biomedical Engineering Professor Jim Collins brings a frenetic energy to the classroom and the laboratory, following his imagination to scientific discoveries.

Image of the MET The Future of Museums
By Cynthia K. Buccini
Museums face tough times raising money and attracting visitors, but some museum leaders are keeping their institutions strong — and relevant — in a changing world.

Photograph  by Larry Hirshowitz/CORBIS Baby Talk
By Chris Berdik

Infants can understand words long before they can speak, and Sargent College scientists are learning how they do it.

Professor Emeritus Roman Totenberg Inside the Music
By Jean Hennelly Keith
At ninety-five, Professor Emeritus Roman Totenberg has played the violin for more than eight decades and performed with the major orchestras of the Western world — and he's still teaching students at BU, as he has since 1961.

Howard Gotleib Howard Gotlieb: An Appreciation
By Natalie Jacobson McCracken

Gardner Read Romantic Craftsman: Gardner Read, 1913-2005
By Michael B. Shavelson (CAS'83, COM'83)
Josiah Johnson Hawes, House of Dr. Buckminster Brown, 1860, albumen print. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Print Department Photographic Portrait of Boston
By Taylor McNeil
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