{"id":117127,"date":"2022-04-29T16:39:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=117127"},"modified":"2023-12-14T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:06:26","slug":"milos-popovic-is-supervisor-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2022\/04\/29\/milos-popovic-is-supervisor-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Milo\u0161 Popovi\u0107 is Supervisor of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"by Millie Zhu and Allison Kleber<\/em><\/p>\n

ECE Professor Milo\u0161 Popovi\u0107<\/a> has been named 2022\u2019s Supervisor of the Year, an award given each year at the culmination of National Student Employment Week in recognition of those staff and faculty supervisors who serve as role models and positively impact their student employees\u2019 skill development and overall BU experience. Professor Popovi\u0107 was nominated by Imbert Wang, a current PhD student member of his Silicon Photonics Lab, along with former group members Mark Wade, Cale Gentry and Jelena Notaros.<\/p>\n

Professor Popovi\u0107\u2019s superlative mentorship of his research fellows made him a standout among the year\u2019s supervisor nominees. \u201cI thought Milo\u0161 was an excellent supervisor prior to Covid, but it was during the pandemic that his leadership and mentorship really shone through\u201d, Wang commented, sharing that Professor Popovi\u0107 had pushed for funding for a fellow student\u2019s travel to home country to mourn a parent who had died of the virus. This example of the professor\u2019s compassion and advocacy for his student researchers was particularly striking to the award committee.<\/p>\n

Many of Professor Popovi\u0107\u2019s former students have gone on to significant achievements in their field, including one founder of a Silicon Valley startup, and a current assistant professor at MIT. \u201cAll things considered, Milo\u0161\u2019 mentorship has helped his students achieve great things,\u201d said Wang. Professor Popovi\u0107\u2019s supervisory excellence has received recognition not only from Boston University, but at a regional level as well: the Northeast Association of Student Employment Administrators (NEASEA) has awarded the professor the same honor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ECE Professor Milo\u0161 Popovi\u0107 has been named 2022\u2019s Supervisor of the Year, an award given each year at the culmination of National Student Employment Week in recognition of those staff and faculty supervisors who serve as role models and positively impact their student employees\u2019 skill development and overall BU experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,977,907,1119],"tags":[512,878,441,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147500,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117127\/revisions\/147500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}