Klapperich Changing Boston for the Better
Named in Boston Business Journal’s List of 50 Leaders Making a Difference
Catherine Klapperich and her team built a robust COVID-19 testing program with the capacity to test BU’s roughly 35,000 students every three days throughout the semester.
Professor Catherine Klapperich was selected by the Boston Business Journal along with five BU alumni, another professor, and the CEO of Boston Medical Center for its annual list of the city’s 50 most influential power players. Catherine Klapperich is the Director of the BU Precision Diagnostics Center at the College of Engineering, an ENG professor of biomedical engineering, of mechanical engineering, and of materials science and engineering.
But this year the criteria were different. Instead of calling it the “Power 50,” for 2020 the Business Journal recognizes “Extraordinary Year, Extraordinary People: 50 professionals changing Boston for the better,” people “whose influence, innovation, commitment, and courage are making a difference in the community during an extraordinary time.”
Those named by the Boston Business Journal “each found their own way to rise to meet the unprecedented challenges that accompanied this past year,” the editorial says. “Many worked behind the scenes, without seeking recognition, while others used their positions of leadership to bring attention to areas that the pandemic and widespread racial reckoning have exposed as badly in need of change.”
While some are well-known leaders who have made the list in previous years, others are making their mark through hard work of a kind not often recognized in such lists.
All are “extraordinary people who are quietly helping change Boston for the better,” the editorial says. “And that’s something we can all aspire to emulate: In what’s been an extraordinary year by any measure, we can all work to be extraordinarily kind, or generous, or thoughtful of the needs of others. In doing so, we can meet the demands of the moment head-on.”
To see a list of the BU-connected honorees, with excerpts from the Journal citations, click here.