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Bostonia

Boston University’s Alumni Magazine

Photo of the headstones of Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED'1864), reading "the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US." and her husband Arthuer Crumpler. The headstones are at the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park. Bright green grass grows around the headstones.

Historic Alumni

Trailblazing BU Alum Gets a Gravestone 125 Years after Her Death

August 7, 2020

Two Amber Vittoria illustrations on a white background. In the images, women’s contorted limbs stretch the limits of the composition, like Nothing Is Private (left) and one she created for Dope Girls magazine (right). The women's bodies are in pink.

Visual Arts

Designing Women

August 7, 2020

Image of a tiger in the wild. A dry landscape and brush is seen behind it.

Media & Advocacy

The Animal Advocate

August 5, 2020

Bostonia 08-04-20

August 4, 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

Portrait of Jay Roewe (COM’79) in a black suit in a stylish black chair. Behind him, a neon sign reads "HBO"

TV & Film

A Bridge to Hollywood

July 31, 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

BU alum Renee Shepherd, founder of seed company Renee’s Garden, at her test gardens in Felton, California. She stands with a hand on her hip and smiles, with lots of flowers and plants around.

Plants & Gardening

Seed Pioneer Renee Shepherd and the Gardening Life

July 20, 2020

Comedy

Laugh Therapy on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

July 17, 2020

A photo of the season four cast of Vanderpump Rules

Film & TV

Can Vanderpump Rules and Temptation Island Still Exist in a Coronavirus World?

July 17, 2020

Chad William Kidd (’05,’05) (left), directs the Seminary Singers in Marsh Chapel.

Art at STH

Building an Artistic Legacy

July 16, 2020

Photo of Brooke Karzen (CFA’84) with a leather jacket and red shirt on in one of the judge chairs from the show The Voice.

TV & Film

Real TV

July 13, 2020

A portrait photo of Steve Locke in his studio

Arts & Culture

Alum Steve Locke Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

July 13, 2020

A photo of Natalie Guerrero sitting at a table with an open book in front of her

Social Media

BU Alum Turns to Social Media to Raise Funds in Support of #BlackLivesMatter

July 8, 2020

Photo of a computer, haggadah, and candles with a seder plate in the background. On the computer zoom call participants are seen.

Documentary Film

Documenting How Pandemic Lockdown Changed Eternal City’s Religions

July 8, 2020

Center for Regenerative Medicine researchers Aditya Mithal, Claire Burgess, and Andrew McCracken prepare samples collected from Boston Medical Center patients suspected to be infected with the novel coronavirus.

University News

How BU Responded to a Historic Public Health Crisis

July 7, 2020

Summer 2020

July 7, 2020

Cover of the Summer 2020 issue of Bostonia

Summer 2020

July 7, 2020

A composite image of some of the books discussed in the article below including The Real Deal: My Decade Fighting Battles and Winning Wars with Trump, Black Flag, A Clean Heart, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, Geode, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems, and Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

Literature

Reading List: Alumni Books That Caught Our Eye

July 7, 2020

A portrait photograph of Philip Gerdine

University News

Alum Endows Scholarship, Professorship

July 7, 2020

Alum Endows Scholarship, Professorship