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 estate of John A. Gerda, MD (GRS’51) contributed $81,000 for the Peter A. Bertocci Scholarship Fund, providing support for PhD students in philosophy.
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.
“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.
An important gift from the Feld Family Foundation will create a new professorship in the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS).
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.
Philanthropist Robert J. Hildreth, vice chair of Boston University’s Board of Overseers, has donated $2 million to Creative Writing Programs at the College of Arts & Sciences, and challenged alumni to raise an additional $1 million,
We are now accepting nominations for the College of Arts & Sciences Collegium of Distinguished Alumni and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Academy of Distinguished Alumni.
Philosophy Professor Charles Griswold, the guest speaker, explored the nature of forgiveness in different circumstances.