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Tributes

side by side photos of trailblazer Esther Hopkins and artist Peri Schwartz. Hopkins smiles and looks at camera as Schwartz looks to left and smiles to someone off camera.

Tributes

Remembering a Painter, a Poet, a Trailblazer, and a Former Olympian

November 16, 2021

Black and white photo of Louis Armstrong, center, joins in his own joke over an old jazz story with trumpeter Bobby Hackett and Newport Jazz Festival impresario George Wein, at left, at Newport, Rhode Island on July 10, 1970. Hackett holds a trumpet, Armstrong is mid-laugh, and all the men smile.

Obituaries

BU Alum George Wein, Founder of Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, Dies at 95

September 14, 2021

Fashion designer Jessica McClintock sits with arms crossed watching a presentation.

Tributes

Fashion Designer and Alum Jessica McClintock Built an Empire

July 28, 2021

Black and white portrait of Gaylen Kelley at Boston University in 1963.

Tributes

Tributes: Wheelock’s Gaylen B. Kelley, Miriam A. Marecek, CAS’ James D. Purvis, and SDM’s David A. Russell

July 27, 2021

Tributes

Tributes: COM’s Christopher Cakebread (COM’82, Wheelock’00) and Norman Moyes, CFA’s Wilbur D. Fullbright (GRS’60)

March 25, 2021

Photo of William A. Anthony sitting in a chair in a suit and tie and smiling.

Tributes

“Father of Psychiatric Rehabilitation”

November 19, 2020

Photo of Robert Burdick (LAW’72), a School of Law clinical professor who directed the Civil Litigation & Justice Program for more than 40 years, standing in a suit, looking off into the middle distance. Bright blue skies are seen in a window behind him.

Tributes

A Quiet Legal Giant: LAW’s Robert Burdick

November 19, 2020

Composite image, at left, a photo of Rev. Gil Galdwell (GRS’55, Hon.’59) speaking at a podium in what looks like a church, and a black and white photo of Robert Trump (DGE’68, CAS’72) holding a soccer ball as a young man at BU.

Tributes

Tributes: Rev. Gil Caldwell (GRS’55, Hon.’59), Robert Trump (DGE’68, CAS’72)

November 19, 2020

Black and white portrait of Joachim Maître in a checkered suit in front of a bookshelf.

Tributes

Joachim Maître Taught at BU for 30 Years

November 18, 2020

Photo of Travis Roy on Monday, October 6, 2015 at center ice of the Agganis Arena. He wears a grey sweater and his retired jersey number, 24, is seen hanging from the ceiling.

Tributes

Travis Roy, Terrier Hockey Player Paralyzed in 1995, Dies at 45.

October 29, 2020

Obituaries

A Sports Pioneer and BU Hall of Famer Dies

July 7, 2020

A photo of Sir Hans Kornberg in his lab

Tributes

Tributes: Sir Hans Kornberg, Anton Mavretic

July 7, 2020

Tributes

Acclaimed Sculptor Lloyd Lillie Dies

June 16, 2020

A photo of Nancy Livingston (COM’69) with her husband, Fred Levin, and Robert Pinsky, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of English.

Alumni

Robert Pinsky Pays Tribute to Nancy Livingston

April 13, 2020

A black and white portrait of Edwin J. Delattre

Tributes

Tributes: Edwin J. Delattre, Betsy Dickinson (Welch) Bate, Murray L. Cohen, Charles R. Willis, Robert Zelnick

January 30, 2020

1958 portrait of Julia Pratt in her office.

Tributes

Tributes: Julia C. Pratt, Andrew Dibner, George O. Zimmerman

October 23, 2019

Pardee School of Global Studies

Augustus Richard Norton Helped Shape Pardee School

July 9, 2019

Faculty

Tributes: CFA’s Susan Wharton Conkling, Pardee’s Michael T. Corgan, ENG’s Eric Schwartz, CAS’ Jacqueline Liederman

July 9, 2019

Tributes

The “Gift of Lightness”

February 19, 2019

Photography

Renowned Photographer Peter Simon Dies

February 19, 2019

Renowned Photographer Peter Simon Dies