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Bostonia

Boston University’s Alumni Magazine

A photo of the KCILSE building with Warren Towers in the background on Boston University's campus

Giving

Record-Breaking Year for Giving to BU

November 2, 2022

Left to right, a photo of Pardee's Walter D. Connor, CAS' Paule Verdet and David A. Wagenknecht (CAS'62, GRS'64)

Tributes

Remembering Three Professors Emeriti Who Helped Shape the University

November 1, 2022

Collage: 12 Book covers arranged in two rows of six. Top row covers: "BUILD ME A CITY: SECRETS, LIES, AND LOVE IN BARON HAUSSMANN'S PARIS", "CLASSIC BASEBALL: TIMELESS TALES, IMMORTAL MOMENTS", "DELIBERATELY DIVIDED: INSIDE THE CONTROVERSIAL STUDY OF TWINS AND TRIPLETS ADOPTED APART", "THE DIAMOND EYE", "GIRL IN ICE", and "HEALING: OUR PATH FROM MENTAL ILLNESS TO MENTAL HEALTH". The bottom row contains covers of "KEYA DAS’S SECOND ACT", "KIND LIKE MARSHA: LEARNING FROM LGBTQ+ LEADERS", "THE LUNAR HOUSEWIFE", "SLAYING THE DRAGON: A SECRET HISTORY OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS", "TEN THOUSAND SELVES", and "THE TRAYVON GENERATION".

Books

Reading List Fall 2022: New historical fiction about Joan of Arc, a World War II thriller, and the “secret history” of Dungeons & Dragons

November 1, 2022

Paul Lanzikos (Questrom’80), former state secretary of elder affairs under Governor Michael Dukakis, is cofounder of Dignity Alliance Massachusetts, a healthcare policy coalition focused on nursing home reform. Dignity Alliance has endorsed the establishment of a COVID-19 day of remembrance in the commonwealth. Photo by Cydney Scott

Health & Medicine

BU Alum Calls for a COVID Day of Remembrance in Massachusetts

October 31, 2022

Los Angeles Times executive editor Kevin Merida (COM’79) returns to BU’s College of Communication to speak at a symposium on Black media on Friday. Photo by Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times

Journalism & Media

Alum Kevin Merida Is Reinventing the L.A. Times

October 27, 2022

Photo: Jenn Lindsay poses for a photo. A white woman with wavy brown hair and wearing a white collared shirt and yellow jacket poses in front of a blue wall and looks to the left.

Diverse Film & TV

Opening Doors: Jenn Lindsay (GRS’18), Founder of So Fare Films

October 25, 2022

Bostonia 10-25-2022

October 25, 2022

Japanese American cellist Leo Eguchi (CFA’02). Photo by Justine Cooper

Music

Don’t Miss This Powerful Cello Performance Saturday in Chinatown

October 20, 2022

Cover of the Fall2023 edition of Bostonia. The cover features a photo of BU President Robert Brown looking to the left and smiling. He wears frameless glasses, a red ceremonial graduation robes with black and blue velvet stoles adorned on him. He also wears a golden, ceremonial BU necklace. Background shows a light blue, clear day. The cover reads “Bostonia. End of an Era. President Robert A. Brown to step down after 17 transformative years”. Along the bottom, the cover reads in smaller text “A lifelong friendship, a $100 million gift, and a new name for the school of medicine. SNL's new director is a BU alum. This doctor's patients are wild! The first BU alum in space. Alumni Poems on Gratitude.”

Fall 2022

October 16, 2022

Douglas Brown

October 14, 2022

Edward L. Bell

October 14, 2022

Wendell Smith

October 14, 2022

Norman Newmark

October 14, 2022

Jennifer (Colella) Martelli

October 14, 2022

Patrick Kerr

October 14, 2022

Geoffrey Ginsburg

October 14, 2022

Sandra Dorsainvil

October 14, 2022

Edwin Light

October 14, 2022

Joseph Patrouch

October 14, 2022

Gerald “Jerry” Carozza

October 14, 2022