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Awards

Accolades

Sky High—ENG Terriers Win NASA Student Competition on Clean Aviation Energy

June 9, 2023

Photo: Group photo of various students standing in front of a large window and smiling and holding up certificates that read "Grandlabbies".

Accolades

Students Create Ads for Chobani, Celebrity Cruises, and More

June 8, 2023

Photo: A large cast of people in costumes stand on a stage with a red background. They are wearing dresses and suits in various colors.

Alumni

CFA Alum Nominated for Tony Award for Best Sound Design on Into the Woods

June 7, 2023

Photo: A white woman with short, brown hair looks into the camera and smiles. She wears a black cardigan and a blue-patterned infinity scarf. Behind her is a stack of books and a guitar.

COMMENCEMENT 2023

CFA’s Karin Hendricks to Receive the 2023 Metcalf Cup and Prize, BU’s Highest Teaching Honor

May 17, 2023

Commencement 2023

CGS’ Stephanie Byttebier Wins a 2023 Metcalf Award

May 16, 2023

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: 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: 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: 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

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.

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

University News

New Alum Wins Best Student Video at 2022 Webby Awards

June 23, 2022

New Alum Wins Best Student Video at 2022 Webby Awards