{"id":44782,"date":"2025-12-18T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=44782"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:28:23","slug":"amazing-eight-com-graduate-student-awards","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/amazing-eight-com-graduate-student-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Eight: COM Graduate Student Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eight graduate students from Boston University\u2019s College of Communication accepted this year&#8217;s COM Graduate Student Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements, dedication, and contributions by the college\u2019s graduate students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur graduate students play a vital role in shaping the intellectual and creative life of the college,\u201d said Laurie Nichols, assistant dean of graduate affairs. \u201cThe&nbsp;nominees&nbsp;and recipients of this year\u2019s awards stand out for their excellence, generosity, and lasting contributions to our COM community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recipients were selected by a review committee of faculty and staff members at the College of Communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winners of 2025 COM Graduate Student Awards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Graduate Student of the Year: Ananya Swaroop (COM \u201926, MS in Journalism)<\/li><li>Dean&#8217;s Award for Academic Excellence: Yuejiao Di (COM \u201926, MS in Media Science: Marketing Communication Research) and Dongpeng Huang (COM \u201925, PhD in Emerging Media Studies)<\/li><li>Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: Abigail Pritchard (COM \u201926, MS in Journalism) and Britney Kirwan (COM \u201926, MS in Advertising)<\/li><li>COM Global Citizen Award: Syfia Safira Wulandari (COM \u201926, MS in Public Relations) and Zhilan Huang (COM \u201926, MS in Journalism)<\/li><li>COMmunity Service Award: Yifang Li (COM \u201925, MS in Media Science: Marketing Communication Research)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight graduate students from Boston University\u2019s College of Communication accepted this year&#8217;s COM Graduate Student Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements, dedication,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16717,"featured_media":44785,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[1473],"tags":[],"bu-publication":[1472],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/44782"}],"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\/16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/44782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44786,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/44782\/revisions\/44786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44782"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=44782"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=44782"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=44782"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=44782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}