{"id":44387,"date":"2021-10-05T15:32:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?p=44387"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:32:54","slug":"2021-faculty-and-alumni-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/2021\/10\/05\/2021-faculty-and-alumni-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Faculty and Alumni Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Alumni Weekend, the College of General Studies honored this year&#8217;s faculty and alumni award recipients in a virtual ceremony. Dean Natalie McKnight presented the following awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>The Outstanding Service Award, which recognizes service to the college above and beyond the call of duty was awarded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/john-regan\/\">John Regan<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>The Peyton Richter Award, which honors excellence in interdisciplinary teaching, was presented to <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/sal-genovese\/\">Sal Genovese<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/june-grasso\/\">June Grasso<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/karen-guendel\/\">Karen Guendel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>The Dr. Ismail Sensel Award, which recognizes and honors outstanding professors, was awarded to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/sandra-buerger\/\">Sandra Buerger<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/e-thomas-finan\/\">Thomas Finan<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/profile\/joshua-pederson\/\">Joshua Pederson<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Distinguished Alumni Award was presented to Valerie Ford Jacob (CGS\u201973, COM\u201975) in recognition of outstanding achievement and service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch video of the award ceremony:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TKwVJhDk0_Y\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Alumni Weekend, the College of General Studies honored this year&#8217;s faculty and alumni award recipients in a virtual ceremony. Dean Natalie McKnight presented the following awards: The Outstanding Service Award, which recognizes service to the college above and beyond the call of duty was awarded to John Regan The Peyton Richter Award, which honors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4206,4212,4204,4264,4208,334,1,4266,4265],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44389,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44387\/revisions\/44389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}