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

University News

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

Awards

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

Awards

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

Students

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

Portrait of Harvey Young, a middle-aged Black man. He wears a blue quarter zip sweater and smiles. He leans against a wall with beams running parallel to the ground.

Accolades

Harvey Young Named This Year’s American Society for Theatre Research Distinguished Theater Scholar

November 9, 2021

Photo of Ibram X. Kendi smiling. He has shoulder length locs that are pulled back, and he wears a blue suit, colorful pocket square, and light blue button up shirt. The portrait was taken outside, a building and a tree are blurred in the distance.

Accolades

Ibram Kendi, BU Center for Antiracist Research Founding Director, Wins 2021 MacArthur “Genius” Grant

September 28, 2021

Awards

COM Grad Student Wins Humanitas Prize College Screenwriting Fellowship

September 27, 2021

Screenshot from a broadcast done by Elias Miller (COM’21), who was one of the anchors of BUTV10’s three-day presidential election coverage The Vote 2020, a sign for the series is seen behind him on the right. He wears a blue face mask and a suit as he speaks towards the camera.

Student TV Station Honored

More Kudos for BUTV10 from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences New England Chapter

June 9, 2021

More Kudos for BUTV10 from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences New England Chapter