{"id":75584,"date":"2023-11-09T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?post_type=r_cas_magazine&#038;p=75584"},"modified":"2023-11-17T13:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T18:41:49","slug":"a-150th-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"r_cas_magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/arts-sciences\/2023\/a-150th-anniversary-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"A 150th Anniversary Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"banner-caption\">The 150th celebration culminated at Alumni Weekend 2023 with more than 40 events. Photo by Andrew Burke-Stevenson<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container a-150th-anniversary-celebration autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-75578\" data-slideshow-name=\"a-150th-anniversary-celebration\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-75578\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-75578_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/cas\/files\/2023\/11\/23-1065-BDAY-032.jpg\" alt=\"Dean Stan Sclaroff speaking at the CAS 150th Anniversary party\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Dean Stan Sclaroff spoke at a CAS 150th birthday party in the CAS Think Tank on March 16, 2023. Photo by Cydney Scott<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-75578_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/cas\/files\/2023\/11\/23-1065-BDAY-046.jpg\" alt=\"Seun Ademiloye taking a selfie with Rhett outside the CAS 150th Anniversary party\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Seun Ademiloye (CDS\u201926) snapped a selfie with Rhett outside the 150th birthday party. Photo by Cydney Scott<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-75578_2\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/cas\/files\/2023\/11\/0717a36d63d53d5c4a98671e6cf507a-scaled-e1682957371611.jpg\" alt=\"Three students crouching next to a &#039;150&#039; made out of Lego\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">On March 19, 2023, Wenqi Luo (CAS\u201923) (pictured on the far right) and a group of friends set the Guinness World Record for largest LEGO number, building a red \u201c150\u201d with 13,379 LEGO bricks. Photo courtesy of Wenqi Luo<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-75578_3\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/cas\/files\/2023\/11\/burkestevenson_alumni_230923_10.jpg\" alt=\"Four past and present deans of CAS sitting on stage during a retrospective panel\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Alumni Weekend included an Arts &amp; Sciences retrospective panel featuring in-person appearances from four past and present deans\u2014(left to right) Jeffrey Henderson (2002\u20132007), Dennis Berkey (1987\u20132002), Stephen Trachtenberg (1973\u20131975), and Stan Sclaroff (2019\u2013present)\u2014plus video messages from Gina Sapiro (2007\u20132015) and Ann Cudd (2015\u20132018). Arianne Chernock, a professor of history and associate dean of the faculty of social sciences, moderated the event. Photo by Andrew Burke-Stevenson<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-75578_4\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/cas\/files\/2023\/11\/150th-CAS.jpg\" alt=\"Historical photo of the Class of 1877\u2014the college\u2019s first graduating class\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">A photo album, discovered in 2022 in a CAS conference room, includes the only known photograph of the Class of 1877\u2014the college\u2019s first graduating class. Photo courtesy of CAS<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-75578_5\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/cas\/files\/2023\/11\/burkestevenson_alumni_230923_18.jpg\" alt=\"Daryl Healea standing on a sidewalk with a small group during a walking tour of former CAS locations\" \/><div class=\"bu-slide-caption caption-bottom-right\"><p class=\"bu-slide-caption-text\">Daryl Healea, assistant dean for curriculum and enrollment services, led a walking tour of  former CAS locations on Beacon Hill and Copley Square. Photo by Andrew Burke-Stevenson<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-75578\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-3\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>3<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-4\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>4<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-5\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>5<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-6\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>6<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/arts-sciences\/2023\/\" class=\"button-primary\">Back to full issue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Arts &#038; Sciences celebrated its sesquicentennial throughout 2022\u201323.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75577,"template":"","department":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-articles\/75584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/r_cas_magazine"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-articles\/75584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75996,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/magazine-articles\/75584\/revisions\/75996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"r_cas_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=75584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}