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Accolades

A portrait photo of Fadie Coleman

Accolades

MED’s Fadie Coleman a 2021 Metcalf Award Winner

May 10, 2021

Accolades

2021 Perkins Award Winners Announced

May 7, 2021

Composite image of six first gen students, from top left clockwise: Tima Dasouki (Pardee’22), Richard Boylan (COM’22), Cheyenne Bailey (SPH ’21), Eduardo Gonzalez (LAW, 2021), Ana-Gabriele Benghiac (MED’22), and Chinamere Igwebuike, (MED'2022)

FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS

“This Is My Stepping-stone.” 553 BU First-Generation College Students Welcomed into Honor Society

April 29, 2021

Composite image of headshots of, starting top left and moving clockwise, Eliot Usherenko, Marielis Rosa, Manisha Cole and Jenny (Hyo Jin) Shin (SPH’21).

Accolades

A Token of Gratitude: Student Employees of the Year Celebrated for Their Work

April 12, 2021

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Social Media

Meet the BU Students and Alums Combating Negativity on Social Media

March 26, 2021

Photo of large white wind turbines in a dry, flat landscape. A blue sky with small clouds are seen.

Accolades

Bill Gates Climate Change Nonprofit Gives Kudos to BU Wind Farm Project

March 26, 2021

Composite image with two headshots, on the left, Questrom’s Jeffrey Allen wears a tan jacket and sits casually on a bench while smiling, on the right, CFA’s Brian Dudley wears a jean jacket and tropically patterned gray shirt with his hands in his pockets and smiles in front of the college of fine arts.

Accolades

Helping Students Navigate College Earns Duo BU’s Academic Advising Awards

February 26, 2021

Photo of the headstones of Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED'1864), and reads “the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US, 1831-1895” The headstone is located in the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park, and surrounded by lush, green summer grass.

University News

Boston Honors Trailblazing School of Medicine Alum Rebecca Lee Crumpler Monday

February 7, 2021

A portrait photo of Angela Onwuachi-Willig leaning against a railing with her hands crossed in front of her.

Accolades

Angela Onwuachi-Willig among Five Black Women Law Deans Honored for Efforts to Bring Antiracist Reform to Legal Education

January 12, 2021

Composite image of headshots of Krzysztof Onak (left) and Kate Lindsey, whose research, respectively, is in artificial intelligence algorithms and vanishing global languages, are the recipients of two new Career Development Professorships. Onak smiles, has long curly hair that's pulled back, and wears a blue and white stripped polo. Lindsey stands outside, smiles, and wears a white blouse.

University News

New Career Development Professorships in Data Science, Linguistics

January 11, 2021

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Accolades

Trio of BU Alums Makes the Hollywood Reporter’s Next Gen List

December 17, 2020

A portrait photograph of ShiMin Chen

Accolades

This Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship Winner Might Be the Busiest Freshman on Campus

November 23, 2020

University News

Kelly Walter Elected a Trustee of the College Board

November 18, 2020

Headshots of Boston Business Journal 50 Leaders Making a Difference with ties to BU. Composite image shows formal headshots in the following order: Kate Walsh, Lori Cashman, Paul Francisco, Jeanette Ives Erickson, Marylou Sudders, Ibram Kendi, Catherine Klapperich, Kate Barrand.

Accolades

BU Alums, Faculty on Boston Business Journal’s List of 50 Leaders Making a Difference

November 9, 2020

Otis Rolley III, Senior Vice President, U.S. Equity and Economic Opportunity Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation, and Ibram X. Kendi, Director and Founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, in a discussion outdoors at Boston University. Photo courtesy of The Rockefeller Foundation

Center for Antiracist Research

Rockefeller Foundation Awards $1.5 Million Grant to BU Center for Antiracist Research

October 1, 2020

Portrait of Ibram X. Kendi from Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World list

Accolades

Ibram X. Kendi Named to Time100 List of Most Influential People

September 22, 2020

Accolades

Four BU Junior Faculty Named Career Development Professors

September 21, 2020

Photo of a researcher with a blue mask and gloves working on the 4th Floor lab of Kilachand Center during Covid-19 pandemic. The photo is framed by the shelves on top of the desks, the foreground is blurred.

University News

BU Jumps Higher in Latest Times Higher Education Global Universities Rankings

September 14, 2020

A composite photo of Faith Rynda on the left and Meghann Lucy on the right

Initiative on Cities

BU’s Initiative on Cities Summer Fellows Tackle Racism, Help with Civic Research

September 3, 2020

Photo of the headstones of Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED'1864), reading "the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US." and her husband Arthuer Crumpler. The headstones are at the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park. Bright green grass grows around the headstones.

Historic Alumni

Trailblazing BU Alum Gets a Gravestone 125 Years after Her Death

August 7, 2020

Trailblazing BU Alum Gets a Gravestone 125 Years after Her Death