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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)

November 18, 2022

Photo: A large piece of butternut squash manicotti topped with Brussels sprouts, pickled apple, and almonds is shown on a white plate. A slight sprinkling of Parmesan cheese tops the dish.

recipe

VIDEO: What’s for Thanksgiving? Try This Fall-Themed Manicotti with Squash and Brussels Sprouts

November 18, 2022

Lydia Moland (UNI’97,’97, GRS’02) says abolitionist Lydia Maria Child was “a devastatingly good arguer…. She was a very, very powerful thinker and writer.” Photo by James Johnson

Alumni

Profiling a 19th-Century Woman’s “Radical American Life”

November 14, 2022

Photo of Daniel Fredholm posing for the camera. stands and poses ext to a large palm tree in a large, green wildlife park. Fredholm wears a grey collared shirt and khaki pants as he stands and poses with hands in pockets.

Earth & Environment

As a Clinical Veterinarian for the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Daniel Fredholm Treats All Creatures Great and Small

November 4, 2022

A composite image with photos of Liz Patrick, and a background of the NYC skyline in black and white

TV & Film

Saturday Night Live’s New Director Talks Sketch Comedy, MTV, and Ellen DeGeneres

November 3, 2022

Concept image with 5 stars cut out of a paper cartoon bubble symbolising customer feedback. Photo by MicroStockHub/iStock

Feedback

Readers Weigh In on the Science of Sleep, Systemic Racism, a New Campus Building

November 2, 2022

Photo: Jenn Lindsay poses for a photo. A white woman with wavy brown hair and wearing a white collared shirt and yellow jacket poses in front of a blue wall and looks to the left.

Diverse Film & TV

Opening Doors: Jenn Lindsay (GRS’18), Founder of So Fare Films

October 25, 2022

Japanese American cellist Leo Eguchi (CFA’02). Photo by Justine Cooper

Arts & Culture

Don’t Miss This Powerful Cello Performance Saturday in Chinatown

October 20, 2022

Education

My Big Idea: Anti-Bullying Software for the Classroom

October 12, 2022

Photo: Alums Les Gordon (left) and Dafna Krouk-Gordon sit in an empty theater and pose for the camera. An older white man wearing glasses and a black long sleeved shirt sits tot he left of an older white woman wearing a white top. They both sit in an empty theater with red seats and smile for the camera.

TV & Film

Keeping a Small-Town Movie House Alive

October 11, 2022

Photo of Trevor Rozier-Byrd (LAW'10) posing for a photo. A dark, tan man wearing a blue blazer and pants and white collared shirt holds his black cell phone in hand as he looks to the camera.

Entrepreneurship

Opening Doors: Trevor Rozier-Byrd (LAW’10)

October 4, 2022

Photo of Josh Fairchild standing in front of an Orange line train with its doors open for boarding. a white man wearing a blue plaid shirt and grey puffer vest poses with arms crossed in front of an Orange and silver train.

Urban Health

The MBTA Has Problems. This Alum’s Advocacy Group Has Answers

October 3, 2022

Keshawn Young (COM’23) (from left), Allison Davis (CGS’73, COM’75), Faith Rynda (CAS’22), and Joel Christian Gill (CFA’04) at the 2021 BU Alumni Weekend wine and cheese event hosted by the Black Alumni Council. Photo by Cydney Scott

Alumni Weekend

Six Events to Check Out at Alumni Weekend 2022

September 28, 2022

Photo of Michael Russell Gunn (COM’07) and Tristan Roche (COM’20) visiting the set of Thai Cave Rescue in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in northern Thailand. The two stand in a cave giving one armed hugs as they wear helmets with head flashlights on them and smile for the camera.

TV & Film

Thai Cave Rescue Re-creates a Harrowing Story

September 21, 2022

Innovation

My Big Idea: Clean Body Care Products

September 20, 2022

Image: screenshot of Julian Shapiro-Barnum, a young white man wearing glasses and a light blue sweater over a white collared shirt, interviewing a small child eating ice cream. Julian holds a black microphone to the child.

CFA Alum

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

September 16, 2022

Collage: Photo of Gus D’Angelo. He leans against a tree and wears a black cowboy hat and dark blue plaid shirt. Next to image of cartoon field mouse in a wheel chair dressed in hiking gear.

Books

Introducing Young Readers to the Beauty and Wonder of Our National Parks

August 17, 2022

Photo of Deidra Somerville. A black woman with dreadlocks and glasses leans against a burnt yellow pillar and smiles for the camera. She wears a brown collared shirt and a yellow shawl with a Ghanaian adinkra pattern.

Mental Health

Making Psychedelic Therapy Accessible to Underserved Communities

August 2, 2022

Photo of Stewart O’Nan, a middle age white man, who wears a dark gray short-sleeve button-down shirt and stands at the shore of a beach. He looks off to his left, and has short white hair and facial hair. The sky behind him is light blue with gray clouds.

Books

In Alum Stewart O’Nan’s Ocean State, Teenage Passion Turns Deadly

August 2, 2022

Joe Wardwell (CFA’99) (right) and artist assistant Quayshaun Owens installing Gotta Go to Work, Gotta Go to Work, Gotta Get a Job at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Watershed in East Boston. Photo by Kris Wilton, courtesy of the ICA

Alumni

Words on Labor, Writ Large at the ICA Watershed

July 25, 2022

Words on Labor, Writ Large at the ICA Watershed