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Business & Economics

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CFA Alum

Julian Shapiro-Barnum (CFA’21) Heads to the Playground for Some Recess Therapy

September 16, 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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Alumni

Meet the Four Alums Who Made the Forbes “30 Under 30” and New “50 Over 50” Lists

March 15, 2022

Roger Wellington stands in front of the Pine Street Inn

diverse initiative

Opening Doors: Roger Wellington (SHA’94)

February 16, 2022

Social Media

This BU Alum Wants to Take the Toxicity Out of Social Media

February 8, 2022

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Photography

Fetching Success for The Dogist

February 3, 2022

Husband-and-wife team Arsh Kakar (CAS’15) and Jannat Kakar (COM’23) started Tishwish, a company that makes compostable packaging for e-retailers, during summer 2020, prompted by the pandemic. Photo courtesy of Tishwish

Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea: Compostable E-Commerce Packaging

February 1, 2022

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Antidiscrimination Work

Opening Doors: Manjusha Kulkarni

January 27, 2022

Photo of Linda Calhoun (COM’80), a middle-aged Black woman with light brown, curly, shoulder-length hair. She wears a long, yellow, draping blouse and holds a DSLR camera as she stands in what looks like a studio.

Nonprofit Aiding Girls

Opening Doors: Linda Calhoun (COM’80)

December 14, 2021

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Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea: Shaun Chavis

November 22, 2021

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Data Science

Data Science Jobs Are Hot—and with a State-of-the-Art Building, New Faculty, and a New Major, BU Is Ready

November 19, 2021

Paretta Autosport founder and CEO Beth Paretta standing in front of the Paretta Autosport pagoda with the Paretta Autosport sign in the background.

Motorsport

Paretta Autosport Head Beth Paretta’s Drive to Boost the Number of Women in Motorsport

November 18, 2021

Portrait of Questrom alum David R. Jones in New York City. He stands and looks to the left in front of a large patch of pink flowers. He is surrounded by NYC traffic and looming building as backdrop.

Finance

Opening Doors: David R. Jones (CGS’84, Questrom’86), cofounder, president, CEO, CastleOak Securities

November 2, 2021

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Alumni Entrepreneurs

My Big Idea: A Gift for Your Inbox

October 22, 2021

Portrait of Danielle Letayf, founder of the start-up business Badassery, outside with a brick wall in the background.

Alumni Entrepreneurs

My Big Idea: Danielle Letayf, Badassery

September 20, 2021

Photo of Boston journalist and COM alumn Carmen Fields posing outside of WHDH in Boston on June 3, 2021. She wears a colorful sweater with a variety of geometric and organic patterns and leans on a cement wall and smiles.

Alumni

Opening Doors: Carmen Fields (COM’73), Pioneering Journalist

September 15, 2021

Photo of Aaron Rasmussen (COM’06, CAS’06), with a spherical keyboard he made for himself because of a repetitive strain injury, at home in Washington State. He wears a gray suit jacket, glasses, in stands in the bushes which are illuminated by the lights of his keyboard.

Innovation

BU Alum Aaron Rasmussen: Serial Entrepreneur, Inventor, Perpetual Student

July 28, 2021

Concept illustration of a person with ecoanxiety and depression caused by global warming fear. A person with green pants and a blue shirt lays in a bed of smoke stacks.

Climate Change

Communicating Conservation Under Biden Versus Trump

July 28, 2021

A photo of Matt Levin wearing a Worcester Red Sox hat sitting in the stands. The baseball field is in the background.

Business of Baseball

Woosox Matthew Levin Bridges Baseball and Business

May 4, 2021

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Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea: Suits with Pockets, and Now, a New Networking Community for Women

April 21, 2021

My Big Idea: Suits with Pockets, and Now, a New Networking Community for Women

My Big Idea

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