BUA senior Sitarah Lakhani ’22 won a Regional Gold Key in the 2021-2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for her piece entitled “She’s Golden” in the category of Digital Art. The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is the nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens, and is presented in partnership with the School of the […]
BUA senior Zoe Xi ’22 was named one of the top 300 scholars in this year’s Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. Zoe’s project, entitled “Approximation Algorithms for Dynamic Time Warping on Run-Length Encoded Strings,” focuses on dynamic time warping (DTW) distance algorithms under the […]
This Tuesday morning, in honor and recognition of Veterans Day, Captain Lydia M. Hill ’11 addressed more than 250 BUA students and faculty at our weekly All-School Meeting in BU’s Morse Auditorium. Captain Hill graduated from BUA in 2011 and went on to the United States Air Force Academy, where she received her commission in […]
Congratulations to the BUA Girls Soccer team, whose 2-0 victory over the International School of Boston in last night’s game earned them the title of Girls Independent League champions! Co-captain Casssandra Swartz ’22 sends in this recap of the championship game: “On November 5, the BUA Girls Soccer team departed to face off against International […]
Boston University Academy English teacher Dr. Jennifer Formichelli passed away in a tragic accident near her home in Mattapan on the morning of October 26. She touched so many lives in our school community, and her loss is profoundly felt. Jennifer will be remembered as a thoughtful, highly intellectual scholar of English literature; a champion […]
An impressive sixty-one percent of the Boston University Academy Class of 2022 received recognition in the 67th annual National Merit Scholarship Program competition. Twenty current BUA seniors were named National Merit Commended Scholars. They are among the roughly 34,000 U.S. seniors recognized for “exceptional academic promise,” and place among the top 50,000 students who entered […]
On Tuesday, September 28, BUA English Teacher Dr. Monica Alvarez presented a talk at All-School Meeting entitled “Voice and Belonging.” In her remarks, Dr. Alvarez shared personal reflections of growing up with a stutter, how she overcame her speech impediment — in two languages! — and how she pushed through her fear to finally find […]
As our most recent graduates pack up for college this week, we wish them the very best of luck on the next step of their journeys. The BUA Class of 2021 will attend the following institutions this fall: Boston College Boston University (10) Brown University University of California at Berkeley University of California at […]
BUA hosted back-to-back Commencement ceremonies on the morning of Saturday, June 5 at BU’s Nickerson Field. The 52 graduates of the Class of 2021 walked across stage to receive their diplomas from Head of School Chris Kolovos. Immediately following, 38 members of the Class of 2020 returned to campus for the graduation ceremony that they […]
BUA senior Friedrich Liu ’21 was named as a top 300 scholar in the 80th Regeneron Science Talent Search—the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school seniors. A total of 1,760 students around the country entered the competition this year, which is owned and produced by Society for Science. In […]