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.
We are delighted and honored to launch this inaugural issue of Kaleidoscope: A Journal of Kilachand Honors College, filled with the fascinating and insightful work of students in Kilachand Honors College.
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Nathan Clark (ENG'25) spent the summer working at Noblis and fulfilling social justice work through engineering. Noblis is an "independent, nonprofit organization with a proud tradition of serving federal clients objectively and with the highest caliber of scientific and technical excellence" with a mission to produce "work [that] makes an impact on the civil, defense, […]
Anne Joseph (CAS’25) is majoring in Sociology and spent the summer working with New Roots AME Church in Dorchester, MA. In this feature, Anne shares different ways to participate in advocacy work and how important building and maintaining community is to social justice. The photo below shows Anne working a booth at a community event […]
Bridgette Lang (Pardee’23) is an International Relations major and spent this summer interning at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In these photos, you can see Bridgette at the UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and with fellow interns at an event with the High Commissioner. Q&A with Bridgette Lang Could you give us a […]
Emily Schwartz (CAS’24) is majoring in Sociocultural Anthropology and Spanish with a minor in Latin American Studies. This summer she completed an internship with The Intergenerational Literacy Program (ILP) in Chelsea, MA. Here she tutored community members in English as well as assisted with clerical work for the organization. In this feature, Emily tells us […]
We are happy to introduce you to Paul Riel (Ed.D) Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Services at Boston University, and Project Executive for the Kilachand Hall Ninth Floor Renovation Project. Dr. Riel answered some of Professor Preston’s questions about this exciting project and addressed concerns students have voiced about the beginning phases of the work. […]
Kilachand sophomore Hanna Dworkin (CAS'24) painted a gift that will be presented to Dr. Kilachand in Abu Dhabi, where he is the host of BU’s International Advisory Board Meeting. About Hanna Dworkin:Hello! My name is Hanna Dworkin. I am a sophomore in KHC majoring in economics, political science and philosophy on a pre-law track. I […]
Isabella Reish (Kilachand, COM’24) has been writing their whole life but only started diving into the craft of writing screenplays last year, when they came to BU for a degree in Film and Television. Isabella has started their career off strong by winning Best Short Screenplay in the NYC International Screenplay Awards for their script […]
The third student feature from our 2021 summer Kilachand Internship Program is Marie Kimball (CAS'23). This summer Marie is an intern with Wayside Youth & Family Services: Framingham Family Resource Center, where she gets to work alongside family resource specialists, clinicians, education liaisons, and attorneys in order to assist families in the local community in accessing […]