Photo of Boston city councillor Kenzie Bok, left, with mural artist Zora Che (CAS’22), standing in front of Che's mural honoring BU alum Priscilla Fairfield Bok on May 13 in CAS. Bok, a middle aged white woman with brown hair, wears a blue formal jacket and smiles. Che is a young AAPI woman with long black hair who wears a pale green dress, square dangling earrings, and smiles. The mural is on a blue teal wall, and features and image of Priscilla Fairfield Bok with a telescope that appears to project an image of the milky way.

May 17, 2022

Hidden HERstories: Priscilla Fairfield Bok (CAS 1917)

A painting of Priscilla Fairfield Bok (CAS 1917), an astronomer who popularized the Milky Way, was dedicated in CAS 502 on May 13, and attending were many of Bok’s descendants, both in person and via Zoom. Among them was Kenzie Bok, a Boston city councilor (left), here with mural artist Zora Che (CAS’22). BU’s ARROWS (Advance, Recruit, Retain & Organize Women in STEM) invited proposals last semester from visual artists for five site-specific projects to be installed in different STEM departmental spaces around campus, organized by a new undertaking called Hidden HERstories. Photo by Cydney Scott

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