{"id":107437,"date":"2022-09-29T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=107437"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:31:43","slug":"the-lifelong-friendship-behind-astonishing-100-million-gift-to-bus-medical-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2022\/09\/29\/the-lifelong-friendship-behind-astonishing-100-million-gift-to-bus-medical-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lifelong Friendship Behind Astonishing $100 Million Gift to BU\u2019s Medical School"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107443\" style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2022\/09\/Chobanian-and-Avedisian-at-the-Sloane-House-ceremony-on-Aug-15.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Chobanian and Mr. Avedisian at the Slone House ceremony smiling at one another\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107443\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2022\/09\/Chobanian-and-Avedisian-at-the-Sloane-House-ceremony-on-Aug-15.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2022\/09\/Chobanian-and-Avedisian-at-the-Sloane-House-ceremony-on-Aug-15-636x425.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2022\/09\/Chobanian-and-Avedisian-at-the-Sloane-House-ceremony-on-Aug-15-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2022\/09\/Chobanian-and-Avedisian-at-the-Sloane-House-ceremony-on-Aug-15-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2022\/09\/Chobanian-and-Avedisian-at-the-Sloane-House-ceremony-on-Aug-15-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chobanian and Avedisian at the Sloane House ceremony on August 15. Photo by Dave Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two Armenian families finding freedom in America.<\/p>\n<p>Two boys growing up poor a few doors apart in hardscrabble Pawtucket, R.I.<\/p>\n<p>Two successful men\u2014one a renowned cardiologist and former president of Boston University, the other a celebrated clarinetist for the Boston Pops\u2014changing the course of Boston University history.<\/p>\n<p>Lifelong friends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/profile\/aram-chobanian\/\">Aram V. Chobanian<\/a> (Hon.\u201906) and Edward Avedisian (CFA\u201959,\u201961) will now be connected forever as the namesakes of BU\u2019s medical school. Thanks to a $100 million gift from Avedisian that will support scholarships, endowed faculty chairs, and cutting-edge research and teaching, the school is being renamed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/\">Boston University Aram V. Chobanian &amp; Edward Avedisian School of Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/lifelong-friendship-behind-100-million-gift-to-bu-medical-school\/\">Read<\/a> the entire <em>BU Today<\/em> story by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/author\/joel-brown\/\">Joel Brown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni clarinetist\u2019s philanthropy and humility results in the BU Aram V. Chobanian &#038; Edward Avedisian School of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107445,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107437\/revisions\/107445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}