Adam Lapidus and A. Sherrod Blakely received this year\u2019s top faculty awards from Boston University\u2019s College of Communication, honoring their work in instruction and advising, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lapidus<\/a>, assistant professor of film and television, is the recipient of this year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before coming to Boston University, Lapidus was a writer for such popular television series as \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d \u201cWho\u2019s The Boss,\u201d and \u201cFull House,\u201d and later wrote and produced for Disney and Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recent Teacher-of-the-Year Award recipients include Justin Joseph<\/a>, associate professor of the practice in public relations; Noelle Graves<\/a>, senior lecturer for journalism; and Gary Sheffer<\/a>, the Sandra A. Frazier Professor of Public Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Blakely<\/a>, a COM lecturer in journalism, is the recipient of this year\u2019s Lyndon Baines Johnson Student Advising Award, nominated by COM students for excellence in student advising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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\u2019s father, President Lyndon Baines Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to teaching at COM, Blakely is an NBA writer for Bleacher Report and an NBA columnist for Ebony.com<\/a> and Bet.com<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recent Advising Award recipients include Maura Smith<\/a>, master lecturer for film; Steve Quigley<\/a>, now professor emeritus for public relations; and Doug Gould<\/a>, professor of the practice in advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adam Lapidus and A. Sherrod Blakely received this year\u2019s top faculty awards from Boston University\u2019s College of Communication, honoring their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1654,"featured_media":39111,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[1473],"tags":[433,1403],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/39103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/39103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39104,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/39103\/revisions\/39104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39103"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=39103"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=39103"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=39103"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=39103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}