"Citrus slices" self care WellBeing x BU Libraries poster

WellBeing and BU Libraries created the posters to encourage students to practice self-care through healthy habits

CinemAfriq "The Train of Salt and Sugar" posters

These posters were created to promote a showing of the "The Train of Salt and Sugar" through CinemAfrique at BU Libraries

"Winter Cottage in the Snow" Winter Break Posters

These posters were created to encourage students to relax and read over winter break

Banned Books Week "Stacked books" Banned in Boston poster

These posters were created to raise awareness about censorship by looking at books that have historically been banned in Boston

"?! Research Help" Posters

These posters were created to encourage students to ask a librarian for help and to utilize other library resources

"Ghost Twins" Ask a librarian poster

These posters were created to encourage students to ask a librarian for help with research or another assignment

Get Out of the BU Bubble "Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum" Poster

These posters were created to encourage students to explore Boston

"Red background" @BULIBRARIES posters

These stickers were made to encourage BU students to utilize resources available to them at BU Libraries

Promoting breast cancer screening among Chinese American women through young children\u27s theatrical performance

Research has revealed that underutilization of breast cancer screening by ethnic minorities often is related to language difficulties and cultural values and beliefs about cancer. The problem addressed in this secondary data analysis was the late diagnosis of breast cancer in the Chinese immigrant community. The purpose of the quasi-experimental study was to test the efficacy of a theatrical preschool performance, guided by the diffusion of innovation theory, in educating Chinese American women about breast cancer detection. The research questions sought to determine whether the performance increased the participants\u27 knowledge of breast cancer screening guidelines and whether country of origin, length of stay in the United States, and self-reported attentiveness were associated with knowledge gain of breast cancer screening guidelines. The preschool performance was performed by Chinese children ages 3 to 5 who displayed breast health guidelines from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure. One hundred and seventy-seven pre- and postperformance surveys were collected from a sample of Chinese women (84% foreign born). The secondary data were analyzed using standard linear regression analyses and bivariate logistic regressions. The findings demonstrated that promoting breast health screening guidelines among Chinese American women through a preschool theatrical performance significantly increased the participants\u27 knowledge of the guidelines. However, no major impact was detected between knowledge score and attentiveness to the theatrical performance and any of the demographic variables. Health care professionals can foster social change by adapting a preschool theatrical performance to educate ethnic communities on cancer control guidelines for early detection

The Values of Architecture

Why does architecture matter? Since the Western art tradition classifies architecture as a fine art alongside painting, sculpture, music, and literature, questions about architectural value are typically subsumed under more general questions about artistic value. Architecture, however, is fundamentally unlike the other fine arts. It is public, site-specific, functional, and immersed in everyday life, characteristics that challenge the applicability of a unified framework of art to architecture. My thesis examines the philosophical implications that arise when architecture is considered in isolation from the broader arts. I advance a theory of architectural value distinct from artistic value, which—with its emphasis on disinterestedness and contemplative attention—cannot account for all value-making features of architecture. I proceed to investigate two specific features of architecture that distinguish it from the other fine arts. First, I address architecture’s functionality, and explain how knowing a building’s function can alter the aesthetic qualities we perceive it to have. Second, I evaluate the moral questions that arise from architecture’s status as a public art, addressing the obligations that publicness creates for architects and for members of architecture’s audience. Ultimately, my thesis aims to bring architecture to the foreground of aesthetics—a field within which it has largely neglected—and introduce new perspectives on what architecture is and what makes it valuable