Author: Elisha Meyer

BUA Basketball Defends GIL Championship Title

BUA’s Girls Basketball brought home the GIL Championship for the second year running! On February 13, our BUA Terriers beat out BISB 29-21 last night at home, capping a phenomenal season. Special shout out to our seniors — Celine ’25, Mira ’25, Rose ’25, and Ylan ’25 — on an amazing finish to their BUA […]

BUA Alum Returns to Alma Mater to Coach MUN Team

Congratulations to our 14 Model UN delegates who attended last weekend’s Boston Model United Nations (BosMUN) XXIV conference! This year’s BosMUN was the largest ever, with more than 2,500 delegates from domestic and international high schools. Clair ’28 and Nikki ’27 both earned third place in their respective committees, The Economic and Social Committee for […]

Students Attend DC Civic Leadership Summit

On February 4, a cohort of six BUA students and two chaperones traveled to Washington, DC, to attend the Close Up Foundation and NAIS’ Student Civic Leadership Summit. Under the guidance of program instructors, Betty ’26, Bella ’25, Reeya ’26, Lucas ’25, Angelique ’26, and Lani ’26 considered a variety of viewpoints on pressing current […]

BUA Senior Yiannis Asikis ’25 Serves as Student Representative on MA Board of Education

As the sole student representative and a full voting member on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary & Secondary Education (BESE), BUA senior Yiannis Asikis has an outsize impact on shaping the future of education in the Commonwealth.  The mission of BESE is to strengthen Massachusetts’ public education system so that every student is prepared to […]

BUAMUN XIII

On February 1-2 , BUA hosted its 13th annual BUA Model UN conference for Boston-area middle schoolers, offering “a place for the next generation of diplomats to tackle real world problems, both past and present.” Organized by Secretariat leaders Yiannis ’25, Bella ’25, Ryan ’25 and Sofia ’26, the conference welcomed over 150 middle school […]

Research Highlight: Siblings Mira Chu-Shore ’25 and Tai Chu-Shore ’26 Present at Biomedical Engineering Society Conference

Last fall, siblings Mira Chu-Shore ’25 and Tai Chu-Shore ’26 presented at the annual Biomedical Engineering Society conference in Baltimore, MD, as part of the conference’s two-hour poster session for high school students. Tai’s poster, entitled “Blood Vessel Reflectance as a Tool for Assessing DBS Efficacy in Mice,” focused on how blood vessels in mouse […]

Research Highlight: Metch Nelson ’25 Investigates Disparities in Healthcare via Large-Scale Genetic Research Studies

For his senior thesis project, Metch Nelson ’25, in collaboration with Dr. Brett Maricque at Washington University in St. Louis, is researching the disparities in healthcare in the context of large-scale genetic research programs. Specifically, Metch’s research focuses on the National Institute of Health’s All of Us Program, which aims to improve health care by […]

BU President Dr. Melissa Gilliam Shares Her Story at ASM

On the morning of Tuesday, November 12, BU President Dr. Melissa Gilliam addressed the BUA community at our weekly all-school meeting. In her remarks, President Gilliam shared details of her early life: the daughter of a groundbreaking abstract painter and the first Black woman reporter at the Washington Post, Gilliam attended independent schools in Washington, […]