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Boston University’s Alumni Magazine

Bostonia 07-10-2023

July 10, 2023

Photo: A group of engineers stand around a hi-tech toilet seat. They are wearing matching blue uniforms and safety glasses.

Innovation

BU Alums Create a More Hygienic Toilet Seat

July 10, 2023

Image: Cover of the Bostonia Magazine Summer 2023 Edition. Half red and half blue, the silhouette of an AR-15 is shown in the middle. "Bostonia" is shown in large grey letters at very top. Large text in white reads "How the AR-15 Divided a Nation". A small yellow banner under the title reads "BU Historian and alum Cari Babitzke on the way gun ownership came to shape politics in the United States". At the very bottom in small, white text are the titles of other feature stories in the magazine.

Summer 2023

July 9, 2023

Bostonia 07-05-2023

July 5, 2023

Bostonia 06-30-2023

June 30, 2023

Black and white Photo: Rock Hudson, a white man wearing a long-sleeved collared shirt, looks to the right. Waves of large body of water from the beach shore can be seen in the blurred background behind him.

TV & Film

BU Alum Explores the Double Life of Actor Rock Hudson in New HBO Documentary

June 29, 2023

Bostonia 06-28-2023

June 28, 2023

Photo: Kelli O’Hara (left) as Kirsten and Brian D’Arcy James as Joe in the new musical adaptation of "Days of Wine and Roses". A white man wearing business casual wear embraces a white woman with blonde hair and wearing a summer-y floral dress from behind. They stand on a darkened stage illuminated by a spotlight on stage.

Theatre

Turning a Classic Hollywood Film about Alcoholism into an Off-Broadway Musical

June 22, 2023

Bostonia 06-19-2023

June 19, 2023

Bostonia 06-08-2023

June 8, 2023

Photo: Jillian Abby, a white woman with short, brown hair and wearing a white tank top and orange-red casual pants, smiles and poses with one elbow resting on her knee. She sits on a white bed in front of a black, old school typewriter.

LGBTQ+

Alum’s New Memoir Chronicles Her Experience Coming Out at 38

June 7, 2023

Bostonia 06-06-2023

June 6, 2023

Photo: Gina Fiandaca, a white woman wearing a black shirt and light blue blazer, is shown looking at various screens of video footage of various MBTA stations.

Transportation

Gina Fiandaca Commuted to BU on the MBTA. Now, Her Job Is to Fix It

June 6, 2023

Photo: A man in a blue sweater sits on a modern leather couch staring out the window in NYC. Peter Shankman (CGS’92, COM’94), author of a new children's book on neurodiversity. Photo by Chris Sorensen for Boston University Photography.

Books

He Wrote a Book to Help Kids Deal with ADHD Better than He Did

June 6, 2023

Photo: A horizontal portrait shot of a Black man, Carl Phillips, a Pulitzer Prize winner poet. He is bald and wears a thing blue-gray shirt. The setting is a wooden area.

Alumni

Pulitzer Prize–Winning Poet Carl Phillips Finds Inspiration in Mundanity

June 5, 2023

Bostonia 06-05-2023

June 5, 2023

Photo: A composite image of a horizontal shot of a peak on Mt. Everest. Snow covers the ground and the elevated areas while the sun is shining bright in the background. The layered image is of a white woman with a tangerine-colored snow jacket and blue snow pants. She stands with her arms relaxed, smiling for the camera. There is a white border frame around the image.

Alumni

Alum Who Climbed Everest Says She Grappled with “Grief, Loss, Friendship

June 2, 2023

Bostonia 05-31-2023

May 31, 2023

Photo: Jennifer Yen, an Asian woman with long black hair wearing a pink top, stands in front of a generic photo drop and smiles for the camera.

Business & Economics

My Big Idea: Combining Asian Wisdom with Modern Beauty Routines

May 30, 2023

Bostonia 05-30-2023

May 24, 2023