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Awards

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

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

Photo: Katarina Quach poses for a photo on November 15, 2022. A young, bald, tan woman with long lashes and wearing red lipstick and a large black, oversized blazer, poses for a photo in front of a dark backdrop. Blurred, green leaves in the foreground at dimension to the photo.

Accolades

COM Student among Inaugural Cohort of Obama Foundation Voyager Scholarship Winners

November 16, 2022

Composite of three images of Sujena Soumyanath wearing three different outfits. Soumyanath is a young woman of color with long, dark, straight hair. At left, she wears a white tank top, wide-brim baseball hat, light jeans and a chunky belt on a sidewalk near some industrial looking pipes. At center, she wears a colorful tube top, ripped wide leg jeans, and stands with her hands in her belt loops in front of a graffitied wall. At right, she wears a brown sweatshirt, black mini skirt, and brown, nearly knee-high boots. She wears dark round sunglasses and poses on a street corner.

Accolades

Society of Professional Journalists Honors Daily Free Press Writer for Fashion Column

July 27, 2022

Collage: From left to right, headshots of Leyla Tonak, Kahjirah Taylor Harris, and Evan McDuff.

Global

BU Fulbright Scholars: A Record-Breaking Year

July 14, 2022

Rohan Gupta with his Webby Award in hand. He is wearing a grey suit and a white undershirt

University News

New Alum Wins Best Student Video at 2022 Webby Awards

June 23, 2022

Photo of this year’s Kahn winners (from left): Savannah Panah (CFA’22), music and vocal performance (from left), Devon Russo (CFA’22), music and vocal performance, grand prize winner Gavin Fahey (CFA’22), painting, Chen Peng (CFA’22), painting, Mya Ison (CFA’22), theater arts and performance, and Noah Putterman (CFA’22), directing. A group of students dressed in business casual wear stand in a line and pose for the camera.

Fine Arts

Gavin Fahey (CFA’22) Named Grand Prize Winner at 2022 Kahn Awards Competition

May 17, 2022

Photo of Metcalf winner Leslie Dietiker, an older white woman with short brown hair with some gray streaks in it. She smiles, and wears a thick, gray sweater and striped blue shirt. She stands in front of a blue background.

Accolades

Leslie Dietiker Wins 2022 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching

May 16, 2022

Constance Browne’s passion for justice made her a School of Law professor, and now she’s the winner of the Metcalf Cup and Prize, BU’s highest award for teaching. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Accolades

Teacher and Lawyer, Constance Browne Is Driven by Social Justice

May 13, 2022

Collage of 3 photos of the 2022 Perkins Service Award staff winners from left to right: Francis Antonelli, Nancy Clinton, and Cynthia Bradford

Accolades

2022 Perkins Service Awards Go to Three Longtime BU Staffers

May 2, 2022

Photo of students dressed nicely, on stage, holding black, wooden plaques awards. Behind them on stage a large screen reads "Scarlet & White Honors"

Varsity Sports

BU Student-Athletes Touted at Annual Athletics Awards Ceremony

April 27, 2022

Photo of 2 people walking in the fjords of Iceland. A man and woman face away from the camera in a field of yellow flowers. They face large looming mountains in front of them covered by large low clouds.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Global Programs Annual Photo Contest Captures Moments of Joy

April 20, 2022

Updating curricula to provide the best education is the shared drive of Kathleen Vandenberg (left), a College of General Studies master lecturer in rhetoric, and Pnina Feldman (right), a Questrom School of Business associate professor of operations and technology management. Vandenberg has received the 2022 Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology and Feldman is the winner of this year’s Provost’s Scholar-Teacher Award winner. Photo of Kathleen Vandenberg by Cydney Scott. Photo of Pnina Feldman by Jackie Ricciardi. This photo is a composite of the two pictures side by side

College of General Studies

BU Scholars Honored with University Teaching Awards

April 19, 2022

The red-carpet event, held at the Tsai Performance Center April 15, attracted a sizable, at-times boisterous, crowd. “It’s a lot of fun to do these award shows live, especially if Will Smith isn’t on the guest list,” quipped Bill Braudis, a COM assistant professor of film and television. Here a large crowd is pictured watching short films in a cinema at the 2022 Redstones

Film & TV

Redstone Film Festival: A Triumphant In-Person Return

April 16, 2022

Composite image. At left, Photo of Mark Grinstaff, a middle-aged white man with glasses who wears a button-down shirt with a gradient, squiggly line pattern that fades from green and blue to red and pink. He smiles as he stands outside with his hands in his pockets. In the middle, Photo of Professor Dana Robert of STH. She is a middle-aged White woman with short salt and pepper hair. She wears a black blazer and blue blouse, and smiles as she sits in a wooden chair, her hands crossed in her lap. Behind her, a large white bookshelf filled with books is seen. At right, Photo of Gary Lawson, School of Law professor of Law. He is a middle-aged white man with glasses and salt and pepper hair. He wears a speckled gray-green tweed suit, pink button down and black tie. He smiles slightly and holds his arm with his hand and learns against a white wall.

Accolades

William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professorships Honor Mark Grinstaff, Gary Lawson, and Dana Robert

April 13, 2022

Photo of the winning hunger challenge team posing with a giant $10,000 check and Congressman Jim McGovern. From left: Alexia Lancea (CAS’22), Eunice Lamothe (CAS’22, SPH’23), Saahil Adusumilli (Sargent’22), and Mary Campion (CAS’22), US Rep. Jim McGovern, and State Rep. Andy Vargas.

Innovation

Food@BU’s Idea to Solve Campus Hunger Wins $10,000 Prize at Innovate@BU Event

April 13, 2022

At the April 11 annual Student Employee and Supervisor of the Year awards celebration, Yeelin Bacchus (Sargent’22) (from left) accepted the Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year award; Charles McGinn (ENG’23) received the Undergraduate Outstanding Service award; and Adaeze Okorie (SPH’23) earned the Graduate Student Employee of the Year award. Not pictured is Darius Haghighat (MED’22), who received the Graduate Outstanding Service Award. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi

Student Life

A Celebration of the Best Student Employees on Campus

April 12, 2022

Composite image of Nancy Harayama, a middle aged Asian woman with shoulder length black hair wearing a floral blouse and smiling, senior lecturer in special education at Wheelock College of Education & Human Development (left) and Alyse Bithavas, an older white woman with short amber hair wearing a white and black neck scarf, director of student services and academic advising at the College of General Studies.

Accolades

Academic Advising Awards Ceremony Returns In Person This Year

March 3, 2022

Stock photo of the Center of Boston University campus on a winter day. Snow dusts the campus on a cloudy day.

Accolades

BU and Red Hat Announce First Research Incubation Awards

January 25, 2022

Caspian Chaharom (CAS’23) (left), Kelsea Mann (CFA’23), Chloe Adamowicz (CAS’22), and Harunobu Ishii (MET’22) pose for a photo after their autopcb app, which makes circuit design easily accessible, was awarded the Judges’ Choice Award for Innovation Fellows at the BU Spark! Fall 2021 Demo Day, December 10, 2021.

Campus Life

App That Automates Circuit Design Wins Big at BU Spark! Demo Day

January 11, 2022

App That Automates Circuit Design Wins Big at BU Spark! Demo Day