Alumni Weekend 2024 Celebrates Terriers and Marks a Historic Occasion

Event coincides with inauguration of Melissa L. Gilliam as BU president

The BU Alumni Association presented its highest honors to five outstanding alumni during Alumni Weekend. The 2024 Young Alumni Award went to Em Nguyen (COM’15) (from left), vice president of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association; and Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented to Uzo Aduba (CFA’05), an Emmy-winning and Tony-nominated actor; Daniel Levy (CAMED’80), a professor of epidemiology and preventive medicine at the BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and director of the Framingham Heart Study, the nation’s longest-running study of heart disease; Kate Barrand (Questrom’85), president and CEO of the nonprofit Horizons for Homeless Children; and Michelle Hurd (CFA’88), an actor and activist who has twice been honored as a distinguished alum of the BU College of Fine Arts. Photo by Ana J. Quigley, DJQ Media LLC

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Alumni Weekend 2024 Celebrates Terriers and Marks a Historic Occasion

Event coincides with inauguration of Melissa L. Gilliam as BU president

December 3, 2024
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Alumni Weekend 2024 boasted 50 on- and off-campus events celebrating BU’s alumni community and coincided with a historic chapter for the University: the installation of Melissa L. Gilliam as 11th president of BU. The Boston University Alumni Association conferred its most prestigious honors: the Distinguished Alumni and Young Alumni Awards, which recognize Terriers for their accomplishments and their impact on their communities and the world. The weekend featured the Back to BU Beach Festival, BU Night at Fenway Park, receptions, awards ceremonies, an arts exhibition, a trivia night, a campus tour—and lots of selfie opportunities with the new president.

 Justin Flynn (CGS’16, Questrom’18) toasts BU President Melissa L. Gilliam at the Black Alumni Celebration in the George Sherman Union’s Ziskind Lounge.
Angela Pitter (ENG’85, MET’93) (from left), Alyson Clinkscales (ENG’84), and Keith Clinkscales (ENG’84) at a reception for international alumni, held in the Center for Computing & Data Sciences.
The weather was just right for playing a game of oversized checkers at the Back to BU Beach Festival.
BU President Melissa L. Gilliam (from left) with Marcia Levine (Questrom’63, Wheelock’71) and Jyotirmaya Patro (Questrom’25,’25).
Ritika Dinesh (CAS’23, Sargent’23) (left) and Rea Pittie (CAS’23) at the Back to BU Beach Festival.
Newly minted Golden Terriers—from the Class of 1974—celebrate at a brunch in their honor at the Wightman Mansion near BU’s Fenway Campus in Brookline.

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