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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Dasha Ucko (CAS and CDS’28, Political Science and Data Science) turned their personal interests and educational background into a position as an intern at Turn Up Activism, a non-profit focused on youth civic engagement that has registered upwards of 400,000 students since their founding in 2019. Q&A with Dasha Ucko Could you give us a […]
Christina Lamagna, a 2021 graduate from Kilachand Honors College and the College of Communications, was recently part of election coverage with Kirk Documentary Group for FRONTLINE PBS as a Production Assistant and is now a Production Coordinator, but that wasn’t always where she saw herself landing. “I was part of a science communication program [at […]
Emily Cady just graduated from BU, having been a Kilachand Honors College and College of Fine Arts student. Emily's Keystone project “I Can’t, I Have Rehearsal: An Investigation into Wellness and Production Practices of Boston Area Undergraduate Stage Management and Performance Programs,” draws from personal experiences and research done on Boston University’s undergraduate theatre program. […]
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 2024, several Kilachand students were chosen for this funding opportunity. Below we feature 7 of those students, who tell us briefly about their research, how this funding […]
The loss of a parent or sibling is, unfortunately, something that one in 12 children go through , and Kilachand senior Liam Fitzpatrick (CAS’25) falls into this category. He more than understands the deep need for support through childhood grief, and was lucky enough to experience such support as a part of Comfort Zone, a […]
Mike DeSocio (COM’17) has been busy since graduating a few years ago. Beyond his freelance journalism, with pieces featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian and BBC, and writing regularly for CNET, the Kilachand Honors College alum recently went around the country on a promotional tour for his first book, Morally Straight: How the Fight […]
Kylee Liabeuf (CAS’26, Political Science) completed her 2024 summer internship with the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office in Victorville where she assisted the department with case analysis. Her work over the summer helped reshape how Kylee thinks about the justice system and allowed her to explore ways in which justice work can “go beyond […]
As a second-time KIP awardee, Sydney Aslan (CAS’26, Political Science) spent her 2024 summer in Washington D.C. interning for the Institute for the Study of War where she worked with the External Relations team around media on the Russia-Ukraine War. Q&A with Sydney Aslan Could you give us a brief description of the organization you […]