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A group of men stand in a dark room with a bright white light on Michael Chiklis portraying Red Auerbach

Alum

Dream Role for Alum Michael Chiklis: Celtics Legend Red Auerbach

March 1, 2022

Roger Wellington stands in front of the Pine Street Inn

diverse initiative

Opening Doors: Roger Wellington (SHA’94)

February 16, 2022

Photo of MET alum Leon Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer at the Museum of African American History (MAAH) sitting in a pew at the meeting house on November 18, 2021. Wilson is an older Black man with short, graying hair and large black-rimmed glasses, who smiles, wears a suit and rests his right arm on the wooden, painted pews.

Alumni

Museum of African American History President Leon Wilson is Preserving a Vital Part of Boston’s Past

January 31, 2022

Artistic rendering of The Embrace MLK monument in Boston by Hank Willis Thomas with MASS Design Group

Visual Arts

Realizing MLK’s Vision in Boston

January 13, 2022

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

Nancy Schon's Make Way for the Ducklings sculpture in Boston decorated with all ducks wearing Boston Red Sox jerseys to celebrate winning the World Series.

Books

Sculptor Nancy Schön Pays Tribute to the Public in Her New Book, Ducks on Parade!

July 27, 2021

A photo of the Old State House in Boston

Books

City Archaeologist Joe Bagley’s New Book Digs Deep into Boston’s Oldest Buildings

June 9, 2021

A photo of the crime scene at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Alumni

Stephen Kurkjian Featured in This Is a Robbery Netflix Series on Gardner Museum Heist

April 13, 2021

Photo of Flagg (left) and her boyfriend, Aaron Bourget, picking up a donation from Bagelsaurus in Cambridge during a volunteer shift for Rescuing Leftover Cuisine in August. Both wear masks, Lizy carries a tub with brown bags.

Food Rescue

2020 ENG Grad Fighting Waste and Food Insecurity

September 15, 2020

Composite image of Boston restauranteurs and alumni: Andrew Holden (SHA’04), Ali Fong (CAS’01), Michael Lombardi, and Fernanda Tapia (MET’09). Video play button is overlayed.

Restaurants

Can Boston’s Restaurant Scene Survive the Pandemic?

August 4, 2020

A photo of Whitey Bulger and Kevin Weeks walking

Books

COM Alum Casey Sherman’s Book Has New Details on Whitey Bulger

July 27, 2020

Image of Boston City Councilor and BU alum, Annissa Essaibi-George, who has started sew face masks for the Boston University Police Department at the Stitch House, a shop in Dorchester which she founded. Two BU PD officers stand at her left and right; the wall behind them is filled with skeins of yarn.

Community Service

Inside BU Alum’s Stitch House, a Business for the Times

April 16, 2020

Colin Rose poses for a portrait in a school hallway

Public Education

Working for Equity in Boston Public Schools

February 18, 2020

Taylor Cain (GRS’20), director of the Housing Innovation Lab, meets members of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. Housing Innovation Lab intern Rebecca Christner pictured at right.

Housing

Boston, You’re Our Home. Taylor Cain Wants to Keep It That Way

February 13, 2020

Nicholas Chen (CFA’17) poses for a photo inside his Board game café Tavern of Tales.

In the City

CFA Alum Opens Board Game Café in Mission Hill

February 5, 2020

Portrait of Ryan Lotz, Beverage DIrector at Shore Leave Boston tiki bar, sitting in a green banquette surrounded by tropical wallpaper and tiki culture decoration. Photo by Chris McIntosh

Food & Drink

Alum Ryan Lotz Celebrates His Love of Tiki Culture at Boston’s Shore Leave Cocktail Bar

November 11, 2019

Joe bagley holding a Chinese lantern artifact found in an archaeological dig of Boston's Chinatown neighborhood.

Archaeology

The Alum Digging Up Chinatown’s Archaeological Treasures

October 9, 2019

Haas conducts a tour of the exhibition

Visual Arts

Reimagining Ansel Adams

January 30, 2019

Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr, in a graduation robe and mortarboard hat upon receiving an honorary degree from Boston University in 1958

University News

The Ways Boston Helped Shape the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59)

January 22, 2019

Director of Art and Creative Initiatives, HUBWeek, poses for a photo in front of a recycled shipping container transformed into a piece of artwork with the slogan 'We the Future'

Boston

BU Alum Transforms City Hall Plaza for HUBweek

October 10, 2018

BU Alum Transforms City Hall Plaza for HUBweek