Kilachand offers an integrated, four-year curriculum that includes experiential, team learning, and co-curricular opportunities and the infrastructure to engage in a sustained experience of intellectual discovery through the Keystone Project. Kilachand students leave Boston University with the capacity to understand and confront major challenges as they affirmatively and skillfully engage with diverse social, cultural, scientific, and philosophical perspectives.
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More than a decade after graduating from Boston University & Kilachand Honors College, Mark Roberto (CAS'15) is engineering immune cells to find and destroy cancer as a Senior Scientist at OverT Bio. One of the program's earliest alumni, he talked with us about what still surprises him in the lab, why AI has him excited […]
Over the summer of 2026, Sabrina Benedetti (Pardee'28, International Relations) completed an internship with the Red Cross of Northern New England, where she used the skills she learned in the Kilachand Writing Studio courses to share stories about "ordinary New Englanders who do extraordinary things." Q&A With Sabrina Benedetti Could you give us a brief […]
As a high school Athlete Advisor, Arnab Misra (CAS'28) volunteered with LiFe Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the mental health of athletes and coaches. As a college neuroscience and psychology major, Arnab used those connections to create a summer internship for himself at LiFe Foundation, furthering his experience in the field. Q&A With Arnab Misra […]
Have pictures of you and your KHC friends? Congratulations, Kilachand Class of 2026! As we gear up for college and department convocations and all-university commencement this week, we would love to celebrate you with the KHC community on our social channels and in our communications!
From the third floor of Kilachand Hall to over 200,000 Instagram followers, and reels that regularly get millions of views, Kate Weiser (COM '19) knows Boston. The BU and KHC Alum runs the Instagram account @bucketlistboston. What is now many people’s go-to for New England-area recommendations started out as a personal passion project. “I had […]
Over the summer, UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) and Kilachand Honors College team up to co-fund KHC students who have secured summer research positions. In the summer of 2025, several Kilachand students were chosen for this funding opportunity. Below we feature four of those students, who tell us briefly about their research, how this funding impacted their […]
Yash Patel (Questrom’23) is “open to being inspired these days.” In the midst of studying law, working at the District Attorney’s Office, opening gelato shops on Long Island as an Amorino Franchisee, and becoming a lieutenant at the fire department, Patel somehow had a spare 30 minutes to talk about all the (very many) things […]
Karim Barake (Sargent'26) met Dr. Kimberly Samaha, CEO of Born Global Foundation at the Center on Forced Displacement Conference. Their connection and mutual interest in healthcare justice in Lebanon made for a great partnership and opportunity that introduced Barake to concepts of biomimicry and nature-inspired solutions to these problems. Q&A With Karim Barake Could […]