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Still from the movie Summer of Soul featuring Fifth Dimension during a performance. They wear orange, yellow and brown outfits, including jackets with fringe and bell bottom pants. The women at right at the microphone raises her hands as she sings. Three men at right sing into one microphone.

FILM

Updated: David Dinerstein (COM’84) Takes Home Oscar for Best Documentary

March 24, 2022

Photo of Erich Schwartzel (COM’09), a light skinned man with short brown hair. He wears a black polo shirt and leans on a sliding glass door with this right hand.

Books

How China’s Box Office Shapes the Movies Americans See

March 23, 2022

Composite image: at left, Photo of Pastry chef Tie Whittaker (MET’12), owner of dessert company Buttermilk Boutique, holding an award. Whittaker is a young Black woman, wearing a black chef's jacket and cheetah print headband, smiles as she holds the glass award in her hands. At right, a photo of a three-tiered tower of macarons, with bright pink ones in the bottom tier and pale pink ones in the upper two tiers.

Food

Keeping Her Grandmothers’ Recipes Alive

March 21, 2022

Photo of Jill Shames (COM’82 SSW’83), lighting Shabbat candles and holding a small Israeli flag, after helping Ukrainian refugees from the Russian invasion as they enter neighboring Moldova. She looks solemn, wears a hat, a bright orange vest and stands at a black table.

Ukrainian Refugees

For This BU Alum, Helping Those Fleeing Ukraine Is Personal

March 10, 2022

Photo of Oksana Masters, a white woman and double amputee, on Team USA who skis on a black pair of adaptive skis during an Official Training Session at Zhangjiakou National Biathlon Centre on March 03, 2022 in Beijing, China. She wears sunglasses, looks very concentrated, and two other paralympians are seen skiing behind her.

International Sports

How the Paralympics Are Helping Society Become More Inclusive

March 3, 2022

Collage of 5 photos of various women BU alums. Photos from left to right of: Bonnie Hammer, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lucy Wheelock, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Women’s History Month

11 History-Making, History-Shaping Women from Boston University

March 2, 2022

In this handout photo, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pays a visit to the front line in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, February 17, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP

International Relations

Forced to Evacuate Ukraine, Nicole Jepeal (CAS’11) Worries about Those Left Behind

March 2, 2022

Image: Bottom half of the Give or Take movie poster, featuring actors actors Norbert Leo Butz and Jamie Effros in a still of the film. Words underneath read "Give or Take, You can't choose family"

Film & TV

COM Alums Helm New Indie Dramedy Give or Take

March 2, 2022

Photo of Christine Riccio (COM’12) sitting on a cement staircase outside and hugging three copies of her book "Better Together." Riccio has long, wavy blonde hair and tilts her head as she smiles. She wears a white blouse with white sleeves and tan corduroy overalls.

Books

Alum Christine Riccio Turned a Love of Reading into a Career as a YouTuber and an Author

March 1, 2022

A group of men stand in a dark room with a bright white light on Michael Chiklis portraying Red Auerbach

Alum

Dream Role for Alum Michael Chiklis: Celtics Legend Red Auerbach

March 1, 2022

Emily Lam (ENG'14,'16,'20) and ENG Professor Thomas Little started tech company Rtangent, whose technology provides virtual tours led by a a live interpreter/guide. They were photographed at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, for which they created a tour. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Innovation

My Big Idea: Guided Tours through Virtual and Real Spaces

February 28, 2022

Roger Wellington stands in front of the Pine Street Inn

diverse initiative

Opening Doors: Roger Wellington (SHA’94)

February 16, 2022

photo of a white, heart shaped cloud in a blue sky.

SHARE THE LOVE

For This Valentine’s Day: Messages of Love and Gratitude to Friends

February 14, 2022

Social Media

This BU Alum Wants to Take the Toxicity Out of Social Media

February 8, 2022

Photo of an 11-week-old Basset Hound. The hound is held by its owner who wears a tan p-coat with a repeated pattern.

Photography

Fetching Success for The Dogist

February 3, 2022

Husband-and-wife team Arsh Kakar (CAS’15) and Jannat Kakar (COM’23) started Tishwish, a company that makes compostable packaging for e-retailers, during summer 2020, prompted by the pandemic. Photo courtesy of Tishwish

Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea: Compostable E-Commerce Packaging

February 1, 2022

Photo of MET alum Leon Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer at the Museum of African American History (MAAH) sitting in a pew at the meeting house on November 18, 2021. Wilson is an older Black man with short, graying hair and large black-rimmed glasses, who smiles, wears a suit and rests his right arm on the wooden, painted pews.

Alumni

Museum of African American History President Leon Wilson is Preserving a Vital Part of Boston’s Past

January 31, 2022

photo of Kori Pacyniak giving a sermon. They wear traditional priests robes and don blue hair.

LGBTQIA+ Religion

Kori Pacyniak and the Women Priests Push for Changes in the Church

January 28, 2022

photo of Manjusha Kulkarni, an Indian woman, wearing a blue sweater over a white collared shirt. She stands in front of a bright blue mosaic mural.

Antidiscrimination Work

Opening Doors: Manjusha Kulkarni

January 27, 2022

Artistic rendering of The Embrace MLK monument in Boston by Hank Willis Thomas with MASS Design Group

Visual Arts

Realizing MLK’s Vision in Boston

January 13, 2022

Realizing MLK’s Vision in Boston