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Boston University alum Todd Shalom leads participants through a walk on campus Saturday. ZOE ADES/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Artist Todd Shalom transforms walk down Commonwealth Avenue into artistic performance

Samantha Drysdale October 2, 2018
Todd Shalom led an audience down Boston University's campus with the steps of a performance art of his own invention: the participatory.
Arikana Chihombori-Quao, African Union Ambassador to the United States, speaks at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PARDEE SCHOOL OF GLOBAL STUDIES

African Union ambassador to US speaks at Pardee, discusses future of continent’s politics

Samantha Drysdale September 13, 2018
Arikana Chihombori-Quao, African Union Ambassador to the United States, was invited to Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies as part of the Policy Leaders Forum speaker series.
"We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85" examines the lives of women of color during a critical time for the feminist movement. Pictured here: Faith Rinngold, Early Works #25: Self Portrait, 1965. Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Elizabeth A. Sackler, 2013.96. Photo by Sarah DeSantis, Brooklyn Museum. © Faith Ringgold. PHOTO COURTESY OF ICA BOSTON

ICA exhibit displays lives of black women in the ‘60s, BU grad featured

Samantha Drysdale September 4, 2018
Small dots appear in painted canvases hanging on walls in a new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Though inconspicuous at first glance, the little circles shine light into painful times in the artist’s past.
Luong Ung speaks after a screening of “First They Killed My Father.” The event was hosted by the BU Asian Student Union in CAS Thursday evening.  PHOTO BY FELIX PHILLIPS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Asian Student Union screens documentary, hosts acclaimed director and author

Samantha Drysdale April 3, 2018

Loung Ung stood in the College of Arts and Sciences Thursday and told her story of surviving the Cambodian genocide. By the end, she had moved students to tears. BU’s Asian Student Union hosted...

Elon Musk plans to get humans on Mars by 2022. PHOTO COURTESY NASA

Elon Musk announces plans to land on Mars in 7 years amidst skepticism

Samantha Drysdale October 12, 2017

In 1969, we put a man on the moon. In 2024, will we put someone on Mars? Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, thinks we can and will. This feat is planned to be accomplished by SpaceX’s BFR, which...

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