{"id":50628,"date":"2021-10-02T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T15:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=50628"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:38:51","slug":"pardee-school-alumni-receives-distinguished-alumni-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2021\/10\/02\/pardee-school-alumni-receives-distinguished-alumni-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee School Alumna Receives Distinguished Alumni Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/10\/Shoshana-Chatfield-Award2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1177\" height=\"662\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/10\/Shoshana-Chatfield-Award2021.jpg 1177w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/10\/Shoshana-Chatfield-Award2021-533x300.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/10\/Shoshana-Chatfield-Award2021-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/10\/Shoshana-Chatfield-Award2021-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/10\/Shoshana-Chatfield-Award2021-992x558.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1177px) 100vw, 1177px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Shoshana Chatfield (Pardee \u201988), Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and president of the United States Naval War College, has been awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award at the 73rd Best of Boston University Alumni Awards ceremony.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Distinguished Alumni Award is the most prestigious award that the BU Alumni Association bestows.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An inspiring afternoon at the 73rd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bualumni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BUAlumni<\/a> Awards. Including the award of the Distinguished Alumni Medal to Admiral Shoshana Chatfield (Pardee \u201888), a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BUPardeeSchool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BUPardeeSchool<\/a> alum &amp; first female President of US <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NavalWarCollege?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NavalWarCollege<\/a>. Flush with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PardeePride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PardeePride<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I8m78iyx8v\">pic.twitter.com\/I8m78iyx8v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adil Najam (@AdilNajam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdilNajam\/status\/1444395827087216646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rear Admiral Chatfield was one of four recipients of the <a href=\"https:\/\/trusted.bu.edu\/s\/1759\/2-bu\/alumniWeekend\/interior.aspx?sid=1759&amp;gid=2&amp;pgid=3239\">2021 Distinguished Alumni Award<\/a>. Other recipients include Lawrence Carter (STH &#8217;68, &#8217;70, &#8217;79), <span>dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College and founder of the Gandhi King Ikeda Institute for Global Ethics and Reconciliation; <\/span>Kathleen McLaughlin (ENG \u201987), <span>executive vice president and chief sustainability officer of Walmart, Inc., and president of the Walmart Foundation; <\/span>and Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (GRS \u201981), <span>permanent representative of Nigeria to the United Nations and past president of the United Nations General Assembly<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>A video honoring Rear Admiral Chatfield&#8217;s achievement can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video responsive-vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2021 Distinguished Alumni Award - Shoshana Chatfield\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/606720517?h=94b1b1b42a&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoshana Chatfield (Pardee \u201988), Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy and president of the U.S. Naval War College, was presented with the most prestigious award that the BU Alumni Association bestows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":50702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8811,8434],"tags":[11784,11551,8636,11376,11297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50628"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50756,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions\/50756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}