COMMENCEMENT 2026
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What Drives Vertex CEO and President Reshma Kewalramani
Alum and BU’s 2026 Commencement speaker has dedicated her career to discovering and developing new medicines that change patients’ lives
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Commencement Speaker, Honorary Degree Recipients, and Metcalf Winners Revealed at Senior Breakfast
Vertex CEO and President Reshma Kewalramani (CAS’98, CAMED’98) to deliver Commencement address May 17
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Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine’s Monica Ann Pessina Named 2026 Metcalf Award Winner
Clinical associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology teaches different students in different ways, sometimes even using clay and construction paper
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LAW’s Julie Dahlstrom Wins 2026 Metcalf Cup and Prize
Honored for her work as director of the school’s Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program
May 11, 2026
Current Issue
Winter–Spring 2026
Alumni
The Shipwreck Hunter
After the diving death of her longtime partner, BU alum Jennifer Sellitti carries on their shared passion to find history’s lost vessels on the floor of the North Atlantic
Special Feature
Being Boston’s University
BU is more than a hub of learning, teaching, and research. It’s firmly rooted in—and engaged with—the city of Boston, partnering with its government, schools, nonprofits, and neighborhoods in so many ways.
Browse Sections
Arts & Culture
- Gallery: Anne Leone (CFA’81)
- Sculptor and Alum Janice Corkin Rudolf Captures “Inner Essence” of Her Subjects
- Tony Award–Winning Producers Pledge $3 Million to CFA
Business & Economics
- New Book Asks: Article or Ad?
- The Shipwreck Hunter: After the Diving Death of Her Partner, BU Alum Jennifer Sellitti Carries on with Their Shared Passion
- BU Alum Named to 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 List
Class Notes
See all storiesEducation & Social Service
- BU Alum Has Created A Sanctuary for Former Workhorses
- An Ipswich Church Rises from the Rubble
- Changing the Equation
Feedback
- Feedback: Readers Remember Beatlemania, Recall Campus Inequalities, Pan Feedback
- Feedback: Readers Weigh In on a Resilient Student
- Feedback: Readers Weigh In on a BU Superager, the Passing of Otto Lerbinger, and Alum’s Book Fat Church
Government & Law
- Amid a Brutal War, a Bright Spot
- The 60-Year-Old Intern
- Alum Oversees the Massachusetts Megaprojects That Will Reshape People’s Lives
Health & Medicine
- What Drives Vertex CEO and President Reshma Kewalramani
- Gift to Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Will Help Fund Early Detection and Treatment
- Alumni Say Military Service Made Them Better Physicians, Leaders
Science & Technology
- Being Boston’s University: The Many Ways BU Partners with the City of Boston
- BU Undergrads Making a Difference Through Research
- What Is Artificial Intelligence? AI at BU, from A to Z
Sports
- They Have the Best Seats in the House—and Possibly the Longest Running Friendship in BU Hockey
- BU Alum Takes On Boston Globe’s Red Sox Beat
- Remembering the Life and Legacy of BU Alum Harry Agganis, 70 Years After His Death
Tributes
- James Brann Made an Impact Few Students Forgot
- Wheelock’s Evelyn Ford-Connors: “Truly a Remarkable Colleague”
- Remembering Wheelock’s Marcia Folsom and Robert Willcutt, CFA’s Robert J. Gartside, Jr., CAS’ Shane Hunt, Questrom’s Gerald Leader
University News
- Who Made Boston Magazine’s “Most Influential Bostonians” List?
- What Drives Vertex CEO and President Reshma Kewalramani
- COM Launches its First Fully Online Master’s Degree