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Accolades

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Accolades

STH’s Walter Fluker Honored by Roosevelt Institute

March 22, 2024

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Five Trailblazing Alums to Celebrate during Women’s History Month

March 13, 2024

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Accolades

BU’s Most Powerful Women, and Other Forbes Influencers

January 25, 2024

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Accolades

Music Journalist, and BU Alum, Makes Inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 Local Boston List

November 14, 2023

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Accolades

BU Alum Drew Weissman Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for Breakthrough mRNA Technology That Led to COVID Vaccines

October 2, 2023

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Accolades

Young Alum Wins Highly Competitive Schwarzman Scholarship

July 11, 2023

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Accolades

Young Alum Wins Prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship

May 9, 2023

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Government & Law

Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox Scaled the Blue Wall of Silence

March 27, 2023

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Accolades

Two Alums Make Time’s List of Most Influential People of 2022

June 6, 2022

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AAPI Heritage Month

These 10 Asian American and Pacific Islander Alums Are Changing the World

April 29, 2022

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Alumni in Politics

Meet 16 BU Alums in the Biden Administration

March 2, 2021

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University Appointments

Trustee and Alum Endows New Antiracism Professorship at the School of Law

February 3, 2021

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Antiracism

In a Turbulent Time, Ibram X. Kendi and BU’s Center for Antiracist Research Will Help Lead the Way Forward

November 19, 2020

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Music

CFA Alum Named Classical Woman of the Year

July 7, 2020

CFA Alum Named Classical Woman of the Year