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Alumni

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Theatre

Hoping for Human Connection in The Band’s Visit

December 4, 2023

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Business & Economics

Opening Doors: Alejandro Garcia-Amaya (CGS’05, Questrom’07)

December 1, 2023

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Accolades

Jazzman Bill Banfield Receives President’s Call to Service Award

November 28, 2023

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Alumni

White House Welcomes Young BU Alum for Climate Change Talk

November 27, 2023

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One Good Deed

One Good Deed: Audry Lynch (Wheelock’67)

November 16, 2023

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TV & Film

Alum’s True-Crime Book Now a Critically Acclaimed HBO Series

November 16, 2023

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Books

Cartoonist Explores Stories of Veterans of the Battlefield—and the COVID ICU

November 16, 2023

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Alumni

Adeena Sussman Releases new Jewish Cookbook, Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours

November 16, 2023

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Genealogy

Genealogy’s Golden Age: Alum D. Brenton Simons Is a Leading Champion

November 16, 2023

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Books

Excerpt from Jonathan Eig’s Acclaimed New Biography, King: A Life

November 16, 2023

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TV & Film

BU Actors Celebrate Hollywood Strike Settlement and Return to Work

November 16, 2023

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Books

Reading List: Baseball, Rock ’n’ Roll, Murder, and Intrigue

November 16, 2023

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Alumni Weekend

Terriers Run, Walk, Cruise, Party, Learn, and Celebrate at Alumni Weekend 2023

November 16, 2023

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Tributes

Jo Farkas, Whose Second Act Was Acting, Dies at 96

November 16, 2023

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Feedback

Feedback: Readers Weigh In on the US and the AR-15, Activism and BU Faculty, and Alum Author David Grann

November 16, 2023

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Accolades

Music Journalist, and BU Alum, Makes Inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 Local Boston List

November 14, 2023

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Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea: Camping Gear Made for Kids, and Their Parents

November 8, 2023

TV & Film

Real-Life Teacher and CFA Alum Ben Ducoff Plays a Teacher in Yaniv, His Debut Feature Film

November 1, 2023

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Alumni

Opening Doors: Fundación ConEducación

October 23, 2023

Photo: Emily Gusse, a young white woman wearing a grey long-sleeved shirt and black puffer vest smiles and poses next to Tess Kohanski, a white woman wearing a grey sweater. They both pose in front of a large brick building with a large sign that reads "Park-9".

Entrepreneurship

BU Alums Open New England’s First Dog Bar

October 18, 2023

BU Alums Open New England’s First Dog Bar