With a Big Purpose in Mind
Bonnie T. Feld (CAS’73) heads Arts & Sciences fund drive.
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How We Make Financial Decisions
The Slater family endows a chair to explore the psychology of financial decision making
The Bootblack, the President, and the Lawyer
In his will, Chester Parasco included a bequest of $150,000 to establish and endow the Chester and Loretta Parasco Scholarship Fund, to support students selected by the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.
The Advocate and the Activist
To honor Zinn’s memory, CAS has established the Howard Zinn Graduate Fund for Studies of Democracy. The fund will support graduate students in the political science PhD program who are researching all aspects of democracy.
Gallerist and art historian Warren Adelson’s love affair with America’s paintings
“My time at Boston University taught me about art history and drew me to the areas of art that I found to be the most interesting, which were really Renaissance and Baroque painting,” says Adelson (CAS’63, GRS’64). Alongside the established showrooms of Vose, Childs, and Castano, 22-year-old Warren Adelson founded his own salon, Adelson Galleries, in a walk-down storefront at 167 Newbury Street where paintings by Boston impressionists like John J. Enneking and Charles Woodbury could be bought for $100 or so.
Literacy & Culture Beyond Our Borders: Overseer Robert Hildreth Advances Creative Writing Internationally
Robert Hildreth has challenged all supporters, admirers, and friends of Professor Leslie Epstein to join him in building the endowment for the Leslie Epstein International Visiting Professorship. Hildreth will match each gift, dollar for dollar, up to a total of $1 million.