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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
BUA freshman Reva Machanavajhula ’28 was selected as one of eight girls representing Massachusetts as part of the state’s inaugural junior golf team. Reva, along with her teammates, are part of the “pipeline to the US National Development Program (USNDP), a new initiative by the USGA to elevate American golf to global prominence,” according to a […]
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 […]
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, […]
BUA sophomore Lyahnnette Morales ’27 and her USA teammates brought home the silver medal at the IDO World Tap Championships held in Prague, Czech Republic earlier this month. Despite being just 15 years old, Lyahnnette competed in the Adult Tap Formation category, which is usually reserved for those ages 17-31. She shares the below reflections […]