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Education

Why We Need More MLK in Schools, Not Less

As states like Virginia propose cutting Black and indigenous histories from school curricula, STH’s James McCarty makes a case for learning the whole truth about the BU alum’s message

November 29, 2022

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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

Can Elon Musk Fix the Twitter Chaos That He Created?

Questrom’s William Kahn puts the social media giant in crisis and its controversial new owner in perspective

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Birth Control

A New Breed of Nonhormonal Birth Control

A dissolvable patch that uses antibodies grown from tobacco plants could prevent unwanted pregnancies and HIV—at a time when reproductive health is under attack

November 30, 2022

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Determined? Divisive? Misunderstood? John Silber, Seen through His Daughter’s Eyes

Her new book, Snapshots of My Father, John Silber, looks back at BU’s controversial seventh president

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November 23, 2022

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COM Student among Inaugural Cohort of Obama Foundation Voyager Scholarship Winners

Katarina “Kat” Quach (COM’24) is one of 100 college students recognized for their commitment to public service

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November 16, 2022

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BU Astrophysicist Joins NASA Team to Study UFOs

Over the next nine months, Joshua Semeter will study footage of unidentified flying objects to help figure out their origin

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November 21, 2022

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Modest Fashion Gets a Refresh

Ameera Hammouda (Questrom’18) has launched a clothing brand that redefines modesty as vibrant and chic

November 28, 2022

Cover of the Fall2023 edition of Bostonia. The cover features a photo of BU President Robert Brown looking to the left and smiling. He wears frameless glasses, a red ceremonial graduation robes with black and blue velvet stoles adorned on him. He also wears a golden, ceremonial BU necklace. Background shows a light blue, clear day. The cover reads “Bostonia. End of an Era. President Robert A. Brown to step down after 17 transformative years”. Along the bottom, the cover reads in smaller text “A lifelong friendship, a $100 million gift, and a new name for the school of medicine. SNL's new director is a BU alum. This doctor's patients are wild! The first BU alum in space. Alumni Poems on Gratitude.”

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Lauren Graves

Lauren Graves (GRS’21) of Jamaica Plain, Mass., was appointed Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture for a two-year period by the Boston Athenæum.

Photo: Conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados is shown mid-performance gesturing and conducting with huge arms and movements. She wears a dark green sweater and looks expressive. Masked people sit and play various string instruments in the blurred foreground and background.

Arts & Culture

Opening Doors: Conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados (CFA’20)

Paul Lanzikos (Questrom’80), cofounder of Dignity Alliance Massachusetts, says the occasion could have public health benefits

November 18, 2022

“I had the good luck to be raised among expert joke-tellers, complainers, arguers, schmoozers, boasters, and liars,” Pinsky says in his new memoir, Jersey Breaks. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun. Pinsky stands looking out over an ocean beach on a cloudy day

Books

In His New Memoir, Jersey Breaks, Robert Pinsky Traces His Journey to Becoming a Poet

As states like Virginia propose cutting Black and indigenous histories from school curricula, STH’s James McCarty makes a case for learning the whole truth about the BU alum’s message

Questrom’s William Kahn puts the social media giant in crisis and its controversial new owner in perspective

A dissolvable patch that uses antibodies grown from tobacco plants could prevent unwanted pregnancies and HIV—at a time when reproductive health is under attack

Latest Headlines

Her new book, Snapshots of My Father, John Silber, looks back at BU’s controversial seventh president

Katarina “Kat” Quach (COM’24) is one of 100 college students recognized for their commitment to public service

Over the next nine months, Joshua Semeter will study footage of unidentified flying objects to help figure out their origin

Ameera Hammouda (Questrom’18) has launched a clothing brand that redefines modesty as vibrant and chic

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Fall 2022

Class Notes

2021

Paul Lanzikos (Questrom’80), cofounder of Dignity Alliance Massachusetts, says the occasion could have public health benefits

“I work to produce not marks on paper but something more like a song or a monologue, or both,” he writes

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