As part of its year-end festivities, the BU College of Communication celebrated many of ts top students Thursday during the annual COM Awards ceremony.

Among them were 18 seniors who received a 2025 Blue Chip Award, the most prestigious student honor for undergraduate students presented by the college.

“These students are among the best, most engaged, and hard-working leaders in the Boston University, College of Communication, Class of 2025,” said William Taylor, associate dean of undergraduate affairs. “I have no doubt they will continue to make a positive impact in their chosen fields and our society. We will be proud to count them among our Boston University alumni and look forward to seeing the ways they will represent COM with distinction in the years ahead.”

Students self-nominate for the award with recommendation letters from faculty and internship advisors. The academic departments choose the recipients. The winners are:

Blue Chips: Journalism

• Avery Berger
• Chloe Cramutola
• Cassandra Dumay

Blue Chips: Film and Television

• Lynn Asare-Bediako
• Maggie Borgen
• Lydia Evans
• Owen Patrick Logan
• Ariel Narayan
• Rachel Neil

Blue Chips: Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations

• Mia Chai
• Sophia Eye
• Sophia Featherstone
• Holly Allison Jones
• Westray Keeler
• Sofia Lee
• Wes Moran
• Monita Ky Seng
• Paige Yoskin

Erin Edwards DEI Award

The evening also celebrated five recipients of the Erin Victoria Edwards Award for Leadership Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The awards are made by COM’s DEI Committee to COM seniors and graduate students for demonstrating strong leadership in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in their “major fields of study, professional activities and internships, in the classroom, or in their communities at large.”

As a symbol of the award, COM presented each recipient with an honor cord, a certificate and a $500 stipend. The award is named in honor of Erin Victoria Edwards, a former COM student who demonstrated outstanding leadership through her DEI initiatives. The winners are:

• Laila Musleh
• Taylor Morales 
• Yuka Masamura
• Lydia Evans
• Lynn Asare-Bediako

Jerome A. Nachman Writing Award

Jerome A. Nachman Writing Award, presented for the quality of their writing as COM journalism students by the College of Communication.

Each award comes with a $5000 prize to help recipients “follow their passion and strive to become better writers,” as described at its founding in 2005. It was named in honor of Jerome Nachman, a former editor in chief of the New York Post and recipient of the George Foster Peabody and Edward R. Murrow awards. The winners are:

• Andrew Botolino
• Chloe Jad