BU Wheelock Celebrates 2025 Convocation
2025 BU Wheelock Convocation
The BU Wheelock community gathered to celebrate the graduation of the 2025 class of undergraduates and graduate students. Students, families, faculty, staff, and others attended several events held over Boston University’s 2025 Commencement Weekend, which took place May 15–18. These events included a graduate student celebration and an undergraduate brunch.
The BU Wheelock convocation ceremony honoring the graduation of the college’s approximately 65 undergraduate and 296 graduate students, was held Saturday, May 17. Dean Penny Bishop presided over her first convocation as dean of BU Wheelock, and the graduates were also addressed by Julia Challinor (Wheelock’75).
Jayde Best (Wheelock’25), who graduated with a specialization in child and adolescent mental health, was the undergraduate student speaker. Gabrielle Branche, who completed a master’s degree in curriculum and teaching, was the graduate student speaker.
Graduate Student Celebration
Jingwen Xu and Ira Luik
Dean Penny Bishop
Jen Altavilla-Giordano and Maria Kanisia Aprillani
Eleonora Villegas-Reimers and Joanna Love
Yasko Kanno (center) with students
Undergraduate Brunch
(l-to-r) Galilee Barron, Sophia Wilson, Caroline McHugh, and Renata Feinstein
(l-to-r) Annie Bell, Liz Vassallo, and Scarlett Downing
Grandee Rafael De Guzman
Laura Jiménez
Linda Banks-Santilli
(center) Chelsie Nacelus
(l-to-r) Caroline McHugh, Alison DiTucci, and Vanessa Galeana
(l-to-r) Vincent Semidey, Jayde Best, Carolina Tramontina Cerebelli, and Margaret Fishman
(l-to-r) Liz Vassallo, Carolina Tramontina Ceribelli, Chelsie Nacelus, Dean Penny Bishop
Convocation
Ira Luik
Detris Adelabu
(l-to-r) Mary Churchill, Raul Fernandez, Lisa Ijiri, Julia Challinor, Dean Penny Bishop, Eleonora Villegas-Reimers, Jennifer Green, Aaron Brakoniecki
Augustus Judd
Shayla Lawrence
Giovana Da Silva
Dikhumo Kgakgamatsu
Dean Penny Bishop
(center) Graduate student speaker Gabrielle Branche
Joanna Love
Dean’s Excellence Award winner Carolina Tramontina Ceribelli and Dean Penny Bishop
Dean’s Excellence Award winner Marshall Hurst and Dean Penny Bishop
Alumni speaker Julia Challinor (Wheelock’75)
Faculty member Anna Ward delivered the land acknowledgment
Kiana Lino
Julia Rocque, Kaanchi Parameswaran, and Seth Dyrli
Undergraduate speaker Jayde Best
Chau Nguyen and Nancy Harayama
Renata Feinstein and Rudy Joseph
Todd Czubeck and Pipier Smith-Mumford
Julia Faustino Fernandez
Danayzah Gardner
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