Kilachand offers an integrated, four-year curriculum that includes experiential, team learning, and co-curricular opportunities and the infrastructure to engage in a sustained experience of intellectual discovery through the Keystone Project. Kilachand students leave Boston University with the capacity to understand and confront major challenges as they affirmatively and skillfully engage with diverse social, cultural, scientific, and philosophical perspectives.
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Have pictures of you and your KHC friends? Congratulations, Kilachand Class of 2026! As we gear up for college and department convocations and all-university commencement this week, we would love to celebrate you with the KHC community on our social channels and in our communications!
From the third floor of Kilachand Hall to over 200,000 Instagram followers, and reels that regularly get millions of views, Kate Weiser (COM '19) knows Boston. The BU and KHC Alum runs the Instagram account @bucketlistboston. What is now many people’s go-to for New England-area recommendations started out as a personal passion project. “I had […]
Over the summer, UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) and Kilachand Honors College team up to co-fund KHC students who have secured summer research positions. In the summer of 2025, several Kilachand students were chosen for this funding opportunity. Below we feature four of those students, who tell us briefly about their research, how this funding impacted their […]
Yash Patel (Questrom’23) is “open to being inspired these days.” In the midst of studying law, working at the District Attorney’s Office, opening gelato shops on Long Island as an Amorino Franchisee, and becoming a lieutenant at the fire department, Patel somehow had a spare 30 minutes to talk about all the (very many) things […]
Karim Barake (Sargent'26) met Dr. Kimberly Samaha, CEO of Born Global Foundation at the Center on Forced Displacement Conference. Their connection and mutual interest in healthcare justice in Lebanon made for a great partnership and opportunity that introduced Barake to concepts of biomimicry and nature-inspired solutions to these problems. Q&A With Karim Barake Could […]
Shandra Back (COM’25, CAS’ 25) graduated from BU and Kilachand Honors College in the Spring with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Political Science. She developed ample experience doing international reporting supported by BU’s Center on Forced Displacement, the Center for Latin American Studies, KHC, and a Fellowship through the BU College of […]
David Marín (CAS'28, Economics and International Relations) worked in his local community as an intern in the district office of Kevin Chambliss. Chambliss assumed office in the Florida House of Representatives in 2020, and is a proponent of minority rights and is committed to supporting the community, something that left Marín with a sense of […]
Jaya Nath (CAS'28, Biology) knew which communities she had a passion for helping, and her Summer internship with Second Story has allowed her to do just that. Starting in 1972, Second Story offers safe havens and opportunities to youth and their families experiencing crisis or at risk of crisis. Q&A With Jaya Nath Could you […]