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Alumni

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Books

COM Alum Casey Sherman’s Book Has New Details on Whitey Bulger

July 27, 2020

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Politics

AOC’s Response to Ted Yoho: How the Media Covered It

July 24, 2020

BU alum Renee Shepherd, founder of seed company Renee’s Garden, at her test gardens in Felton, California. She stands with a hand on her hip and smiles, with lots of flowers and plants around.

Plants & Gardening

Seed Pioneer Renee Shepherd and the Gardening Life

July 20, 2020

Comedy

Laugh Therapy on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

July 17, 2020

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TV & Film

Real TV

July 13, 2020

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Arts & Culture

Alum Steve Locke Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

July 13, 2020

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Jump-Start Your Job Search

Jump-start Your Job Search: marlo marketing CEO

July 13, 2020

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Social Media

BU Alum Turns to Social Media to Raise Funds in Support of #BlackLivesMatter

July 8, 2020

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Documentary Film

Documenting How Pandemic Lockdown Changed Eternal City’s Religions

July 8, 2020

A composite image of some of the books discussed in the article below including The Real Deal: My Decade Fighting Battles and Winning Wars with Trump, Black Flag, A Clean Heart, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, Geode, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems, and Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History

Books

Reading List: Alumni Books That Caught Our Eye

July 7, 2020

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University News

Alum Endows Scholarship, Professorship

July 7, 2020

Obituaries

A Sports Pioneer and BU Hall of Famer Dies

July 7, 2020

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Books

Lara Ehrlich Finds Inspiration in Fairy Tales in Her Debut Collection, Animal Wife

July 7, 2020

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Tributes

Tributes: Sir Hans Kornberg, Anton Mavretic

July 7, 2020

A portrait photo of Valerie Coleman with her flute

Music

CFA Alum Named Classical Woman of the Year

July 7, 2020

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Endowments

Three New Professorships Endowed

July 7, 2020

A photo of the Class of 1970 Convocation in 2010. A graduate holds up a newspaper that reads "Will I have to go to war?"

Commencement

50 Years Later, Another Delayed Commencement

July 7, 2020

A painting by Amber Vittoria

Visual Arts

Gallery: Amber Vittoria

July 7, 2020

Two illustrations of Billie Jean King standing on a platform raising a medal above her head. Next, is an illustration of Alvin Ailey in a white shirt and dark pants dancing with a dance squad behind them.

LGBTQ+ Literature

New Illustrated Book by CAS Alum Introduces Young Readers to LGBTQ+ History

June 30, 2020

The sunset reflects off the Vertex Pharmaceuticals headquarters building, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017 in Boston's Seaport. A sign on the building reads 'Vertex' in purple. The top dome of a building is seen in the bottom left foreground.

Center for Antiracist Research

Vertex Gives $1.5 Million to New BU Center for Antiracist Research

June 25, 2020

Vertex Gives $1.5 Million to New BU Center for Antiracist Research