Commencement Speaker: Embrace Your Fear of the Unknown Future
Former CBS executive Nina Tassler says life took her to unexpected joys Commencement speaker Nina Tassler (CFA’79, Hon.’16) told BU graduates not to be afraid to edit their dreams and rewrite the story of what they want to do in life during the University’s 143rd Commencement Sunday. Video by BU Productions. Photo by Dana J. […]
US Secretary of Energy Moniz to Receive Honorary Degree
Focuses on clean energy, nuclear issues Ernest Moniz. Photo (left) courtesy of the Department of Energy. Engineering a clean-energy future is very much on Ernest J. Moniz’s mind these days, as the world tries to turn the Paris Agreement on climate into action to reduce global warming. As US Secretary of Energy, Moniz directs the […]
University Commits $50 Million for CFA
New spaces for theater and production, makeover of 855 Comm Ave An artist’s rendering of planned renovations to the façade of the College of Fine Arts, 855 Comm Ave. Image courtesy of Wilson Butler Architects, Inc. Over the next few years, BU’s Charles River Campus will see some invigorating changes along the stretch of Commonwealth […]
BUSTI Program Aims a Spotlight Offstage
Summer Theatre Institute for high-schoolers adds design track The students in BUSTI’s design class use a basic model kit to create their own production designs. Photos by Cydney Scott. Lindsey Walko remembers back in the sixth grade, when she saved the day while playing one of the orphans in a production of Annie. “During the […]
Charles River Campus Has 21 New Full Professors
Movin’ on up in five colleges Faculty from five BU schools on the Charles River Campus have been promoted to full professor. Photo by Robert Dolan. Beholding creation, Christopher Schneider longs to understand the forces—evolution, environment, history—that have woven the astounding tapestry of living things. He researches how animal ecology acts with those forces in […]
Queen Anne Reconsidered
James Winn’s book examines flowering of arts during short 18th-century reign As a young man, James A. Winn was often advised that he would have to choose. He could be a serious literary scholar or a professional flutist; it was not possible to be both. Winn proved them wrong. He is now a William Fairfield Warren […]