BUA English teacher Ariana Kelly was named a winner of the 2023 Jack Hazard Fellowship, sponsored by the New Literary Project. The Jack Hazard Fellowship is awarded annually to fourteen creative writers who teach high school — an innovative, groundbreaking initiative that awards $5,000 to support the artistic endeavors of high school teachers from around the country. Read more […]
Three seniors at Boston University Academy — Alex Jin ’23, Alvin Lu ’23, and Joseph Wang ’23 — were selected as top 300 scholars in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. BUA is one of the few high schools to have […]
Boston University Academy student athletes earned All-Scholastics honors in the MBIL league for cross country and soccer in the fall 2022 season. Congratulations to the athletes on these well-deserved accolades. Go Terriers! Boys’ Soccer MBIL All-Stars: Dominic Iafrate ’23, Isaac Rajagopal ’23, Ajay Raman ’23, Nick Reason ’23 Girls’ Cross-Country MBIL All-Stars: Sally Jamrog ’23, […]
BUA junior Luka Loncar, ’24, won the World Cup in épée fencing in the 16-and-under men’s division at the Cadet European Cup in Grenoble, France earlier this month. Over 200 fencers from 12 different countries competed in his division, and Luka’s is the first win by an American fencer in six years. Luka fences with the […]
Dr. Carlos Martinez’s “Boston in the Diasporic Imagination” Senior Seminar took a field trip to see murals in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. These murals were mentioned in Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty, which the class is currently reading. The “Boston in the Diasporic Imagination” class relishes in some of Boston’s rich immigrant history as […]
Boston University Academy’s Alumni Council is honored to present the inaugural Distinguished Alumnus/a Award to Magdalena Slosar-Cheah ’99 for her work in the field of infectious disease. The award celebrates an alumnus of the school who best exemplifies BUA’s values and makes an impact on the community and world around them. Dr. Slosar-Cheah grew up in […]
An impressive fifty-four percent of the Boston University Academy Class of 2023 received recognition in the 68th annual National Merit Scholarship Program competition. Twenty current BUA seniors were named National Merit Commended Scholars. They are among the roughly 34,000 US seniors recognized for “exceptional academic promise,” and place among the top 50,000 students who entered […]
On the evening of September 29, in what promises to be a wonderful tradition, seven graduates who identify as people of color joined two dozen current students of color for dinner and conversation, with the aim of sharing their experiences, building connection, and moving our community forward in terms of belonging. Several dozen alums began their months-long volunteer […]
On Tuesday, September 6, 2022, BUA Student Council President Lizzie Seward ’23 delivered welcome remarks at our opening all-school meeting. Good morning everyone! I hope you are all as excited as I am to be here at 8:30 in the morning! As the sun sets on our summer, I would like to welcome everyone back […]
On Tuesday, September 6, 2022, Boston University Academy Head of School Chris Kolovos welcomed students, faculty, and staff back to school with the following opening remarks on the theme of kindness, a touchstone of the BUA school community. On Kindness Good morning. It is a real pleasure to see you all today. This is a […]