Commencement 2021
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Popular CAS Master Lecturer David Sullivan a 2021 Metcalf Award Winner
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MED’s Fadie Coleman a 2021 Metcalf Award Winner
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Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez Awarded BU’s 2021 Metcalf Cup and Prize
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Commencement
Student Commencement Speaker Will Talk about “Dreams and Nightmares” and Breonna Taylor
Archelle Thelemaque (COM’21), Posse scholar and Howard Thurman Center student ambassador, addresses undergrads Sunday
Parents
Terrier Parents Send Heartfelt Video Messages to Their 2021 Graduates
In a year where families can’t attend Commencement in person, words of love and pride come long distance
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Arts & Culture
- Stephen Kurkjian Featured in This Is a Robbery Netflix Series on Gardner Museum Heist
- Student Activism Today Is Leaving a Mark on Climate Change, Antiracism, Housing, and More
- Photographer Michael Grecco (COM’81) Caught ’70s Punk and New Wave at Its Crest
Business & Economics
- Woosox Matthew Levin Bridges Baseball and Business
- My Big Idea: Suits with Pockets, and Now, a New Networking Community for Women
- Student Activism Today Is Leaving a Mark on Climate Change, Antiracism, Housing, and More
Class Notes
See all storiesEducation & Social Service
- Opening Doors: Ivanna Solano (Wheelock’16)
- Opening Doors: Ben Hires, Chief Executive Officer, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center
- One of the Last Surviving Tuskegee Airmen on Being Part of Famous All-Black Air Squadron
Feedback
- Readers Weigh In on Ibram X. Kendi and Antiracism, Rhett’s Namesake, BU President Harold Case, and More
- Feedback: Netflix Doc Brings Back Memories, the Impact of BU President Harold C. Case, Commencement Delayed
- Feedback: Gender in Media; the Miracle on Ice; Remembering COM’s Betsy Dickinson
Government & Law
- BU Alumni Invited to Join Biden Administration
- Opening Doors: Sandra Brooks Henriquez (CAS’72), CEO of the Detroit Housing Commission
- Trustee and Alum Endows New Antiracism Professorship at the School of Law
Health & Medicine
- Alcohol Consumption Has Spiked during the Pandemic. Could the Consequences Outlast the Coronavirus?
- Opening Doors: Sandra Brooks Henriquez (CAS’72), CEO of the Detroit Housing Commission
- Marcelle Willock, Pioneering Physician and BU Medical School Leader
Science & Technology
- Five BU Alums Are on Forbes 2021 “30 Under 30” List
- Alums’ Green Papers Website, 20 Years On, Is Still Tracking Election Returns
- Could Alum’s New Device Improve Flight Safety for Small Planes?
Sports
- Woosox Matthew Levin Bridges Baseball and Business
- Miracle on the Track: 50 Years Ago, the Men’s Track Team Made History
- Susanne Lyons, chair of the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee, on Overcoming Recent Crises and What’s Ahead for the Tokyo Olympics
Tributes
- Tributes: COM’s Christopher Cakebread (COM’82, Wheelock’00) and Norman Moyes, CFA’s Wilbur D. Fullbright (GRS’60)
- “Father of Psychiatric Rehabilitation”
- A Quiet Legal Giant: LAW’s Robert Burdick
University News
- BU Alumni Invited to Join Biden Administration
- A Former Student Leader, Alexis Redman (Questrom’14) Now Heads the BU Young Alumni Council
- Opening Doors: Sandra Brooks Henriquez (CAS’72), CEO of the Detroit Housing Commission