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Fine Arts

Photo: A girl in a leather jacket smiling in front of textiles

Art History

From Wedding Attire to Living Room Curtains: A BU Scholar Is Unraveling the History of Brocade Weaving in Morocco

May 31, 2025

Photo: A closeup shot of Prof. Michael Quintero playing on a xylophone

Music

Liberation through Rhythm: BU Ethnomusicologist Studies History and Present of African Beats

August 20, 2024

Photo: Lucy Kim, an ?Asian woman wearing glasses, a white lab coat, and purple gloves, works on spreading substance on a large pink screen print with large white squiggles on it. She works in a small lab area.

art and science

Video: Screen Printing with Melanin

September 28, 2023

Photo of green and orange gliding tree frogs swarming on leaves against a black background.

Research in Photos

From Lovesick Frogs to Music-Making to Mouse Memories, Photo Contest Shows Stunning Breadth of BU Research

September 27, 2022

photo of André de Quadros, choir director and teacher of music in the BU prison education program, looking at the camera with a stoic expression. He wears black, rectangular glasses and a light blue collared shirt.

Social Justice

Human Rights Activist and Music Educator André de Quadros Recognized for Career Dedicated to Justice and the Arts

November 29, 2021

A photo of André de Quadros standing in front of Suffolk County House of Corrections

Music Education

How One BU Researcher Is Empowering Prisoners with Music

August 26, 2020

A photo of an empty lab in BU’s Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering

Return to Campus Labs

BU Unveils First Phase of Campuswide Research Recovery Plan

May 6, 2020

Humanities

How the Japanese Imperial Family, the World’s Oldest Royal Line, Transcends Time

July 9, 2019

Portrait of James Uden, Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Boston University College of Arts & Sciences

Accolades

Drawing Modern Inspiration from Ancient Texts

April 1, 2019

Boston University student decorates a chemistry-themed street piano for Street Pianos Boston 2016

Chemistry

Chemistry-Themed Piano Synthesizes Science and Art

September 28, 2016

Don Draper

Arts

Allure of the Antihero

April 26, 2016

Africa

Johannesburg: Works in Progress

December 3, 2015

Africa

Into Africa

December 3, 2015

Samuel Hammer, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Boston University College of General Studies, and Meg Tyler, poet and associate professor of humanities at Boston University College of General Studies

Accolades

Two CGS Professors Win Fulbright Awards

July 30, 2015

CFA Music Chair Jeremy Yudkin

Arts

A CFA Center for All Things Beethoven

July 20, 2015

Queen Anne by James A. Winn

Humanities

Queen Anne Reconsidered

February 6, 2015

Arts

Travels with Titian

October 28, 2014

Ethnomusicology

Squeezebox Diaspora

August 7, 2014

Squeezebox Diaspora