In an April 28 letter to the BUA community, Head of School Chris Kolovos announced the appointment of Robert O’Rourke as BUA’s next director of college counseling. He writes: After a highly competitive nationwide search, I’m delighted to announce that Mr. Robert O’Rourke will be joining BUA as our next Director of College Counseling beginning […]
Boston University’s Department of Classical Studies named BUA junior Emmanuel Smirnakis ’23 the inaugural winner of the Antonis Fragoudakis Memorial Award. The award, established in 2022 and funded by a generous gift from Prof. Roselita Fragoudakis in memory of her father, will be given out annually to a student who demonstrates outstanding achievement in the study […]
On Friday, April 8, over 200 students, parents, siblings, faculty, and staff gathered in a transformed BUA gym to for the school’s first in-person community event in over two years! Families contributed a wealth of dishes from all over the globe, from Chinese moon cakes and Ethiopian injera, to Lebanese kishk pies and Norwegian lefse. […]
Congratulations to this year’s Small Independent School Arts League Art Show (SISAL) winners: 1st Place – Drawing: Michelle Qian ‘24 1st Place – Photography: Sitarah Lakhani ‘22 3rd Place – Digital Art: Angie Zhong ‘22 Honorable Mention – Drawing: Robbie Mulroy ‘24 Honorable Mention – Digital Art: Ava Brilman ‘25 If you missed the virtual SISAL Awards Art Show on April […]
BUA’s Tanay Nambiar ’22 and Rohan Biju ’23 won the Congressional App Challenge for Massachusetts’ 7th Congressional District, represented by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, with their Ping app. Ping centralizes all flood-related communication through the use of a map; users can mark the location of a flood, an obstruction, or flood relief camps or can request resources like shelter, […]
Seven members of the BUA Class of 2022 have been identified as candidates for the US Presidential Scholars Program. Each candidate has the opportunity to complete an application for further consideration. The US Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964, by executive order of the President, to recognize and honor some of the nation’s most […]
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 […]