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Design

Photo: A black and white photo of production designer Wynn Thomas in front of a bookshelf

TV & Film

The “Hidden Figure” Bringing Hollywood scripts to Life: CFA Alum and Production Designer Wynn Thomas

November 25, 2025

Photo: An exhibit from Boston University's MFA thesis exhibition. Thre are many red-toned prints hung on a wall

Fine Arts

Dozens of Dazzling Projects on View in Annual School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions

April 16, 2025

Photo: Sara Zewde a woman with long hair stands in a brightly lit room wearing an elegant and intricately designed outfit with black and white colors

Design

Reimagining Public Spaces

February 14, 2025

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024

Photo: A woman mounts a sensor on a Boston city Blue Bike.

Air Quality

Air Quality Sensors Could Be Coming to a Bicycle Near You

June 4, 2024

Photo: Keith Brown, an ENG associate professor of mechanical engineering, stands with autonomous researching robot, MAMA BEAR, in his lab at BU. Structures like these inform the robot’s search for efficiency, and contribute to the larger mission of autonomous research.

Engineering

3D Printing Robot Uses AI Machine Learning for US Army Research

May 21, 2024

Photo: Photo of student in Jilene Chua's class modeling their creation for the course. A jacket with blue patches on the back.

College of Arts & Sciences

New CAS Class Teaches the History of Empires through Fashion and Beauty

May 14, 2024

Arts & Culture

Kahn Award Will Carry Theater Arts Major Madeline Riddick-Seals Back to Alabama

May 10, 2024

Photo: A picture of a man in a dark plaid suit looking at the camera. There is a reflection of his face on the table he is leaning against

Awards

BU’s Innovator of the Year Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy, Microscopy, Eye Exams

May 7, 2024

Photo: Shaw Hutton (CGS'23, CAS'25), an architectural studies major, spends his spare time making reproductions of 19th and early 20th century women's fashions. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Fashion

Stitching Together the Past

May 3, 2024

Photo: A young man with long hair wearing a black tshirt and jeans, lifts his brush up to paint on a canvas.

Fine Arts

School of Visual Arts Annual BFA Thesis Exhibitions Celebrate Works by 33 BFA Seniors

May 2, 2024

Photo: A photo with a older Black man sitting in a recording studio with the dials and controls behind him.

Venice Biennale

Louis Chude-Sokei Brings BU, Spoken Word, and Dub Reggae Sounds to Venice Biennale

April 16, 2024

Photo: Pictures of women walking while carrying things on their heads

Mechanical Engineering

How Do People Carry Such Heavy Loads on Their Heads?

April 3, 2024

Photo: A colorful sketch of a hospital design with markers laying on top of it

Hospital Design

How the Design of Hospitals Impacts Patient Treatment and Recovery

March 14, 2024

Strategy & Innovation

BU Students Launch New Event and Activity Aggregator Popple

December 1, 2023

Photo: Lucy Kim, an ?Asian woman wearing glasses, a white lab coat, and purple gloves, works on spreading substance on a large pink screen print with large white squiggles on it. She works in a small lab area.

art and science

Video: Screen Printing with Melanin

September 28, 2023

Photo: Three young women hold up puppets on their right hand and smile into the camera. From left, she has short brown hair and wears a monochromatic tan outfit. In the middle, a white woman with long brown hair and a stripped shirt. On the right, a Black woman with shoulder length straight hair. She wears an all black outfit.

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Communicating Science and Research—through Puppets

May 16, 2023

Photo: Mina Chung, a young Asian woman wearing a pink floral blouse and brown pants, stands and works under a green canopy on a table.

Graphic Design

2023 BFA Graphic Design Thesis Show on View at 808 Gallery

May 11, 2023

Photo: A Black man adjusts a small painting on the wall for his MFA thesis exhibition. The painting on his left is a curvy canvas (looks like an outline of the number 8) with a pink background and a nude woman on the front. The top painting is of a landscape with houses in the same form as the one on the left.

Exhibitions

BU Art Galleries Play Host to 2023 MFA Painting and Sculpture, Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition Shows

April 6, 2023

Photo of Cey Adams (center, left) and show curator Liza Quiñonez (center, right) at the opening reception for the first-ever retrospective exhibition of Adams’ work, Cey Adams, Departure: 40 Years of Art and Design at the Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, September 30. In the foreground: Makeeba McCreary (left) and Linda Yang. Four people talk and laugh in an art gallery.

VISUAL ARTS

Cey Adams, Creator of Hip-Hop’s Visual Language, Gets First-Ever Retrospective at Stone Gallery

October 18, 2022

Cey Adams, Creator of Hip-Hop’s Visual Language, Gets First-Ever Retrospective at Stone Gallery