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Performance Arts

Photo: A woman at a podium sings an operatic.

Opera

Recording of Long-Lost Opera Rediscovered by BU Researcher Now Available to Stream and Buy

September 11, 2025

Photo: A man in a long-sleeve blue button down woman in a long-sleeve green shirt singing behind a podium with an orchestra sitting behind them

Opera

How a BU Researcher Found and Revived a Long-Lost Operatic Masterpiece

December 3, 2024

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: Maia Gil'Adi, a white woman with short, dark brown hair and wearing a grey suit, makes a zombie pose in front of light in a dim room. Her pose creates a creepy shadow behind her, emphasized by the lighting.

Zombies

Meet the BU Professor Building an Online Zombie Movie Archive

October 27, 2023

Photo: Three young women hold up puppets on their right hand and smile into the camera. From left, she has short brown hair and wears a monochromatic tan outfit. In the middle, a white woman with long brown hair and a stripped shirt. On the right, a Black woman with shoulder length straight hair. She wears an all black outfit.

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Communicating Science and Research—through Puppets

May 16, 2023

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, Bruce Willis attends the "Motherless Brooklyn" premiere during the 57th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, in New York. People in Mississippi’s capital city are being told to expect downtown street closures and explosions for the filming of an action movie that stars Willis. A bank heist movie called “A Day to Die” has been filming in Jackson in April 2021, with Willis shooting scenes in several places, including a street outside the Governor’s Mansion. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Dementia

What Now for Bruce Willis after Actor’s Recent Dementia Diagnosis?

February 17, 2023

Refugee camp where more than 1 million people live Atme camp Idlib Syria. Photo by iStock/Ahmet Akpolat

Forced Displacement

BU’s New Center on Forced Displacement Will Address the Global Refugee Crisis

October 6, 2022

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

Shana Kilcawley (SAR’22), in Felice Amato's puppetry class, "Thinking Through Puppets"

Performance Arts

How Puppeteers Use Performance to Communicate Research

May 10, 2021

A portrait photo of Christine Woodbury Hamel

Performance Arts

Why Policing the Way Voices Sound Has to Stop

September 17, 2020

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

Cambodian musicians perform traditional cambodian music and chant in Cambodia.

Power of Music

How Cambodian Music Recalls Ancestors and Brings Comfort

November 25, 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

Gerald Kidd and Jayaganesh Swaminathan study the cocktail party problem: why it’s so hard to distinguish one voice in a crowd. Can musical training help?

Hearing Sciences

The Cocktail Party Problem

October 5, 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

Ethnomusicology

Squeezebox Diaspora

August 7, 2014

Squeezebox Diaspora