{"id":18643,"date":"2023-10-11T15:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/?page_id=18643"},"modified":"2025-05-20T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T18:02:59","slug":"nelson-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/opportunities\/special-awards\/nelson-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<strong>\u00a0Nelson Undergraduate Research Award<\/strong> was established in 2023 by Boston University alumni Mark Nelson (COM) to support one student conducting summer research in the field of communications.<\/p>\n<h3>Current Awardees<\/h3>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Summer 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fyn Rhoades<\/strong><br \/>\nProject Title: The Future of Progressive Storytelling: A Creative Model for Inclusive Filmmaking<br \/>\nMentor: Scott Thompson, COM Screenwriting<\/p>\n<h3>Previous Awardees<\/h3>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Summer 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wenshu Li<\/strong><br \/>\nProject Title: We Dwelling Today, Tomorrow, and Forever:\u201d Emerging Black Ecosystems on the Dancefloor<br \/>\nMentor: Michael Birenbaum Quintero (CFA Musicology and Ethnomusicology) and Dr. Jacqueline Georgis (CAS African American &amp; Black Diaspora Studies)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bella Ramirez<br \/>\n<\/strong>Project: Filming the Entryway: A Three-Pronged Approach to Storytelling<br \/>\nMentor: Jodi Luber (COM Film and Television)<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Summer 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emma Longo<\/strong><br \/>\nProject Title: How Fossil Fuel Companies Use Native Advertisements to Promote Climate Denialism in U.S. Media<br \/>\nMentor: Michelle Amazeen (COM Mass Communication, Advertising, and Public Relations)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Nelson Undergraduate Research Award was established in 2023 by Boston University alumni Mark Nelson (COM) to support one student conducting summer research in the field of communications. Current Awardees Summer 2025 Fyn Rhoades Project Title: The Future of Progressive Storytelling: A Creative Model for Inclusive Filmmaking Mentor: Scott Thompson, COM Screenwriting Previous Awardees Summer 2024 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1961,"featured_media":0,"parent":162,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18643"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19510,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18643\/revisions\/19510"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}