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Awards

Photo: CAS professor Joanna Davidson, a white woman with short, curly brown and wearing a blue mosaic-themed blouse and black long-sleeved top smiles and poses with arms clasped behind her back. A blurry outdoor BU building can be seen behind her.

Commencement 2023

CAS’ Joanna Davidson a 2023 Metcalf Award Winner

May 15, 2023

Photo: BU’s Xin Zhang (right) collects the STAT Madness 2023 All-Star award from Nicholas St. Fleur, a STAT general assignment reporter and associate editorial director of events. An Asian woman (right) with short black hair and wearing a purple collared shirt holds up a clear glass trophy with a Black man with brown hair in a curly poof and wearing a tan suit.

Metamaterials

Xin Zhang Wins STAT Madness 2023 All-Star Award

May 11, 2023

Photo: A Western Asian woman with long, dark hair struts down a path at Harvard. She wears a white turtleneck, plaid pants, and smiles towards something off camera.

Accolades

Young Alum Wins Prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship

May 9, 2023

Photo: Two actors sit upon a stage, looking to the left. They are both Black women with curly hair: on the left, sbe has short curly hair and is wearing a pink shirt with a floral maxi skirt. On the right, she has long curly hair, is significantly younger than the woman on the left and is wearing a prep school uniform. In between them is a pile of stacked books.

Theatre

Wheelock Family Theatre’s Matilda, the Musical Nominated for Four Elliot Norton Awards

May 5, 2023

Photo: A group of people stand and pose for a photo in front of a sign that reads "2023 New Venture Competition Winners". Ian Mashiter, director of curriculum at Innovate@BU (from left), Johar Singh (Questrom’24), Shen Ning (MED’24), Stamatios Liapis (MED’23), Philippe Rival (Harvard Business School), Siobhan Dullea, executive director of Innovate@BU, Caspian Chaharom (CAS’23), Kelsey Mann (CFA’23), Chloe Adamowicz (CAS’23), and Harunobu Ishii (MET’22).

Innovation

Teams Win $72,000 in Funding at Innovate@BU’s New Venture Competition

May 2, 2023

Photo: A collage of three white woman, all smiling for the camera for a portrait shot. From the left, a white woman with shoulder-length gray hair and a purple shirt and glasses. In the middle, a white woman with longer, lighter gray hair and bangs. She wears a pale blue blazer and a purple blouse. On the right, a white woman with short, gray hair, wire glasses, and a pink sweater.

PERKINS AWARDS

2023 Perkins Award Winners Have a Combined Century of Service to BU

May 2, 2023

Photo: Engineering Professor, Dr. Ji-Xin Cheng, an Asian man wearing a grey pullover sweater, poses for a photo in his lab. A blue light gives the photo a cool-themed feel as Cheng looks to the left and stands in front of a table full of various mechanical engineering equipment.

Innovator of the Year

Ji-Xin Cheng Is BU’s 2022 Innovator of the Year

May 1, 2023

Photo: A cod fisherman in an orange jumpsuit stands on the deck of a fishing boat surrounded by machinery

Film & Television

Two COM Film & Television Students Win Inaugural Sony Future Filmmaker Award

May 1, 2023

Photo: Grace S. Kim (left), a woman with shoulder length brown hair and wearing glasses, a black blouse, and beige cardigan smiles and holds up a large framed printed award. Renato Mancuso (right), a white man with brown hair wearing glasses, a lavender collared shirt and black blazer smiles as he holds up a large framed printed award.

Accolades

BU Teaching Awards Honor Two Outstanding Educators

April 27, 2023

Photo: Xin Zhang, an Asian woman with short black hair and wearing a burnt orange collared shirt is shown smiling and standing with arms crossed poses in her lab. She wears Computer materials can be seen behind her.

Metamaterials

Xin Zhang to Compete for STAT Madness All-Star Award

April 25, 2023

Photo: An array of re-purposed paper made into various colors is laid flat on a wooden table.

Sustainability

Sustainability Seed Grants Will Fund Ideas Ranging from Textbook Lending to Eliminating Dental Supply Waste

April 24, 2023

Photo: Large, dramatic photo of a starry night sky over scenic mountains. A person can be seen in the foreground wearing a yellow puffer jacket and a headlamp that illuminates him and the area around him. Bodies of water can be seen around dark trees below the cliff the man sits on.

Photography

A BU Student Risked Encountering a Grizzly Bear to Capture This Award-Winning Photograph

April 19, 2023

Photo: Group photo of the BU 2023 Best Student and Supervisor Award winners. (Left to right) Daniel Kirsch (Graduate Student Outstanding Service ) , Kenya St. Fleur (Undergraduate Student of the Year) Christie Ngo (Grad student Employee of the Year , Dr. Monica Wang (Supervisor of the Year-Runner-Up) and Mary Martins (Supervisor of the Year ) (not pictured Christina Matta, Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year) stands next to a stage in a bright room. They all pose together and smile for the photo.

Accolades

BU Celebrates Best Student Employees and Supervisor

April 10, 2023

Photo: Five men stand on a stage to celebrate the winner of a compeition. From left, a West Asian man wearing a black suit, a white man in a maroon blazer and black pants, a West Asian man wearing a blue suit with a black tie, an older West Asian man wearing a black suit with a purple tie, and a white man wearing a plaid blazer with tailored jeans and glasses. They are all smiling for the photo, looking to the left at another camera.

Awards

$50,000 in Prize Money Awarded at SHA’s Poyiadjis Hospitality Innovation Competition

March 27, 2023

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TV & Film

Fighting for Equity

March 27, 2023

Image: Concept illustration of Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications. Mockup of multiple types of aircrafts are depicted flying over urban, suburban and rural areas.

NASA

Delivery Drones and Rotor-Powered Rideshares Sound Great—and Noisy

March 14, 2023

Photo: The Tobin Bridge is shown over the Mystic River in Massachusetts. A large, cantilever truss bridge is shown over a slightly foggy body of water with a small line of boats docked underneath. The city of Boston can be seen in the distant skyline.

Climate Resilience

Climate Change Is Threatening the Mystic River Watershed—Can It Be Saved?

March 7, 2023

Photo: Two men smile at the camera in a dual collage. On the left, a white man with short hair and a beard, crosses his arms. He has a blue collared shirt on and a blue knit sweater. He has glasses. The man on the right is sitting in chair surround by books in an office. He wears a maroon button up and smiles, casually, at the camera.

Accolades

2023 Academic Advising Awards Go to Christopher Schmitt and Matt Bae

March 2, 2023

Nipah viruses binding receptors on human cells, an initial stage of Nipah infection. A newly emerging bat-borne virus that causes acute respiratory illness and severe encephalitis, 3D illustration. Large orange balls with spikes surrounding them attach to tree-like structures sticking up off of a large sphere.

Emerging Pathogens

BU Researchers Join $100 Million Effort to Fight Future Deadly Pathogens

February 17, 2023

Catherine Espaillat, Vivek Goyal, and Malika Jeffries-EL were all honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photos by Cydney Scott

Accolades

These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows

January 31, 2023

These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows