Laura Lowery Boston University Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion currently represents the Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Boston Medical Center as a member of the Anti-Racism Committee.
Laura Lowery PhD is a Scientist and Faculty Member at Boston University. She currently represents Boston University as the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the section of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Boston Medical Center. As a member of the Anti-Racism Committee, Lowery is responsible for ensuring that racial and cultural equity is maintained individually within her own department, as well as upheld across Boston University and Boston Medical Center faculty groups. As a scientist, Lowery conducts biomedical studies within Chobanian Avedisian School of Medicine (BU Department of Medicine).
Laura Lowery is the founder of Art by Academics, a creative project launched by the BU faculty member and scientist in 2021. In 2003, Lowery took a watercolor class on a whim in graduate school. A more technically and scientifically minded individual, she didn’t envision painting becoming a large part of her life. And although she did enjoy the class, she went without painting for nearly two decades, until a creative spark reintroduced her to watercolor. Lowery now embraces the artform as active meditation, as she finds freedom and a therapeutic outlet in painting abstract and repetitive designs. Her creative project, Art by Academics, encourages watercolor painting by people who might not normally consider themselves to be artistically inclined.