Lapidus, Blakely Receive Top COM Faculty Awards for 2024
Sherrod Blakely, recipient of this year’s Lyndon Baines Johnson Student Advising Award and Adam Lapidus, recipient of this year’s Becker Family Teacher-of-the-Year Award.
Adam Lapidus and A. Sherrod Blakely received this year’s top faculty awards from Boston University’s College of Communication, honoring their work in instruction and advising, respectively.
Lapidus, assistant professor of film and television, is the recipient of this year’s Becker Family Teacher-of-the-Year Award, considered the highest honor presented by COM to its professors. The award was established in memory of David Brudnoy, a legend in Boston broadcasting and a professor at COM.
Before coming to Boston University, Lapidus was a writer for such popular television series as “The Simpsons,” “Who’s The Boss,” and “Full House,” and later wrote and produced for Disney and Netflix.
Recent Teacher-of-the-Year Award recipients include Justin Joseph, associate professor of the practice in public relations; Noelle Graves, senior lecturer for journalism; and Gary Sheffer, the Sandra A. Frazier Professor of Public Relations.
Blakely, a COM lecturer in journalism, is the recipient of this year’s Lyndon Baines Johnson Student Advising Award, nominated by COM students for excellence in student advising.
This award is made possible through a fund established at the College of Communication by Luci Baines Johnson, a friend and Trustee Emeriti of Boston University, in honor of Johnson’s father, President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
In addition to teaching at COM, Blakely is an NBA writer for Bleacher Report and an NBA columnist for Ebony.com and Bet.com. He also is the creator and co-host of The A-List Podcast with Kwani Lunis and Gary Washburn, nominated for Best Basketball podcast in 2023.
Recent Advising Award recipients include Maura Smith, master lecturer for film; Steve Quigley, now professor emeritus for public relations; and Doug Gould, professor of the practice in advertising.
