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Emma Johnson BU Alum

Boston University alumni business ventures

Daily Free Press Staff June 8, 2022
Three recent graduates share BU's impact on their recent projects, ranging from bracelets to orchestras.
The City of Boston and New England Conservatory’s 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
Guest speakers and members of the Boston University community honored King by giving speeches, while Conservatory musicians performed musical tributes. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU Howard Thurman Center virtually honors Martin Luther King Jr.

Rachel Do January 21, 2021
Boston University celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory in a virtual event on Monday. For King, the university is close to home — it’s where he earned his doctorate degree and the city where he met the woman he would marry.
Music for Food Boston is an musician-based initiative aimed toward raising resources and awareness to fight hunger at a local level through fundraising at concerts. COURTESY OF TIMOTHY PAEK

Concert to raise money for women’s shelter

Mia Cathell April 4, 2019
Music for Food Boston is hosting a concert at the New England Conservatory Sunday and will donate the proceeds to The Women’s Lunch Place, a nonprofit that helps women experiencing homelessness or poverty in Boston through services such as providing meals, laundry services and access to showers.
“The Embrace,” pictured in a rendition above, was chosen by the King Boston art committee as the winning design for a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King in the Boston Common. The committee announced the winner Monday. COURTESY OF KING BOSTON

Winning design for Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King memorial revealed

Joel Lau March 8, 2019
A 22-foot tall bronze statue titled “The Embrace” will be built on the Boston Common as a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
SooBeen Lee performs Monday at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Calderwood Hall. COURTESY OF KAITLYN RIGGIO

Violin prodigy SooBeen Lee makes Boston debut with performance at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Kaitlyn Riggio February 1, 2019
“Korea’s hottest violin prodigy” made her Boston debut Sunday with a performance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Music director Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in March. A new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help classical music groups, like the Boston Symphony Orchestra, across Boston. COURTESY OF MARCO BORGGREVE

$2.5 million granted to improve classical music early education programs

Kylie Tomasiak October 2, 2018
The New England Conservatory announced Thursday that local non-profit, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has awarded a $2.5 million grant to launch a new initiative aimed at helping aspiring middle and high school musicians from underrepresented communities.
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project performs Under the Dome, the first piece from their Joan Tower Celebration concert at the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on February 9. PHOTO BY LEXI PLINE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Joan Tower celebrates over five decades of composition, 80th birthday

Marissa Wu February 15, 2018

The silent hall is awoken by the clear notes of a flute. Delicate violin strings rise to join it, the suspense builds as the notes race along, and the music rises and falls in tone and rhythm. All...

‘Women in Leadership’ advances dialogue around sexism in music industry

Avery Carlisle February 13, 2018

Female composers made up 1.8 percent of the works performed during the 2014-2015 orchestral season in the 22 largest American orchestras, according to a survey by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The...

Boston College cancels event with CFA professor accused of sexual harassment

Amanda Kaufman February 1, 2018

  A Boston College concert scheduled for Monday night was canceled, allegedly due to the allegations of sexual harassment against Eric Ruske, a Boston University professor who was slated to perform....

Louise Kennedy moderates a panel called "Demystifying Islam" at the First Church in Roxbury Sunday afternoon. PHOTO BY ANU SAWHNEY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Panel discussion addresses stereotypes, misconceptions of Islam

Anu Sawhney November 13, 2017

A panel Sunday afternoon at the First Church in Roxbury focused on discussing some of the current myths and stereotypes surrounding Islam in the United States — especially because these stereotypes...

A look at BU’s past: 1939-2017

A look at BU’s past: 1939-2017

Andres Picon June 7, 2017

In less than two centuries, a countryside theological seminary blossomed into a leading global research university. Here is a walk down memory lane, BU edition.

Maria Currie, a former Boston University student, speaks at a press conference Wednesday afternoon regarding a sexual harassment case that she and another student filed against a university professor in April. PHOTO BY BRIANNA BURNS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Court denies CFA professor’s request to dismiss sexual harassment charges

Alana Levene March 16, 2017

A federal judge denied Boston University and a College of Fine Arts professor’s request to dismiss five of 10 claims related to a sexual harassment case that CFA students brought against them, according...

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