State of the University, Fall 2018
October 5, 2018
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing, as I do each fall, to update you on important topics for the Boston University community. Every fall we experience (and appreciate) the surge of energy that accompanies the return of students. Many of you, I hope, will also have observed many signs of change and innovation on our campuses—from new and renewed facilities to the launch of programs and initiatives. The level of activity is the highest we have experienced in more than a decade. These changes reflect our commitment to continuously improve our quality and magnify our impact to ensure that we remain vital and relevant in a rapidly changing world. Society should expect its great research universities to lead by educating students to succeed in a continuously evolving workplace and in jobs that have yet to be imagined. Society also expects us to prepare students for responsible citizenship (and leadership) in shaping solutions to the challenges that face our nation and world and, through our research and scholarship, to help solve some of these challenges.
At Boston University we are striving to respond to these expectations through our educational programs, our research, and our civic engagement. Much of the change that is visible this fall is in response to these societal expectations.
Society also expects that, as an institution that holds a public trust to prepare young people for lives of service and leadership, we will set high standards of conduct for all members of our community. We can and should lead in preventing sexual misconduct. This fall, we have implemented mandatory online sexual misconduct prevention training for all students, staff, and faculty at Boston University. I hope you have or will soon complete this training. Equally important, I hope you will use the opportunity afforded by the training to have a conversation in your workspace—with your colleagues and students—about the training and the resources available to anyone who experiences sexual harassment or assault.
As we bring new programs and facilities on line and address current societal concerns (such as sexual harassment), we also look over the horizon to secure the long-term future of Boston University. We can anticipate additional change and innovation to result from the strategic planning exercise that is underway. The first phase of the planning exercise, a self-assessment of our progress, is complete. And we have assembled the Strategic Planning Task Force to develop the document that will be the basis for our new plan.
Here are major examples of changes and innovation in progress or just completed:
Wheelock Merger
Our merger with Wheelock College went into effect June 1. The merger resulted in the formation of the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development (Wheelock) at Boston University—a new entity combining our School of Education with faculty and staff from Wheelock College and building on similar traditions of outreach and engagement. Planning is well underway to develop the initiatives in teacher education and evidence-based research that will propel the new BU Wheelock into a leadership position for K–12 education at a major urban research university. Our School of Social Work also expanded as a result of the merger. The school now offers new programs for part-time students at a number of off-site locations. Finally, we have begun to transform the Wheelock College campus into the Boston University Fenway Campus. This fall, residential facilities on the Fenway Campus are at capacity, housing Boston University undergraduates (including transfer students from Wheelock College) and graduate students.
Campus Renovation and Construction
This fall, the restored and modernized Myles Standish Hall residence is open in all sections. Local history buffs know that “Myles” opened in 1928 as one of Boston’s finest hotels; it was acquired by Boston University in 1949. Myles Standish Hall now has modern, suite-style, air-conditioned accommodations for our undergraduates, as well as a redesigned, welcoming streetscape at the eastern end of the Charles River Campus. The granite-curbed peninsula that extends eastward from the building has the added (intended) effect of enhancing pedestrian safety.
At the end of September, we reopened the fully restored “Castle” as the Dahod Family Alumni Center. The Castle was built in 1915 as a private residence and given to the University in 1939. I don’t believe it has looked as good as it does now in over a century. The Castle now serves as the University’s first dedicated alumni center and is home to our reopened faculty dining room.
The next major construction project will redefine the center of the Charles River Campus. As announced on October 1, we have started the public permitting process for the BU Data Sciences Center at the corner of Granby Street and Commonwealth Avenue; see the BU Today article. This facility will house the departments of computer science and mathematics and statistics from the College of Arts & Sciences, and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, our interdisciplinary center that brings together faculty from across the University. The facility will also include a new teaching center for the College of Arts & Sciences, the first to be built in over 50 years. We anticipate starting construction next summer.
BU Hub
Of the many changes underway at Boston University, perhaps the most fundamental is the implementation of the BU Hub, our new, University-wide undergraduate general education program. This year’s freshmen are the first to take this required curriculum. The Hub is the result of four years of effort on the part of 150 faculty members who served on design committees, as well as input from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and parents who responded to requests for reaction to proposals and drafts at various stages of design.
The Hub is a sea change in our articulation of general education. Rather than stipulate a list of courses that each student should take, the Hub instead requires that students develop six essential capacities through coursework and innovative learning experiences. The capacities are: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Historical Interpretation; Scientific and Social Inquiry; Quantitative Reasoning; Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship; Communication; and the Intellectual Toolkit. The Hub is the fulfillment of our commitment to prepare students to flourish in their professional, civic, and personal lives in a world in which the pace of change is accelerating.
I am under no illusions that adoption of the Hub will be straightforward for everyone or that the design of the Hub is perfect for all our undergraduates. But it is, I believe, a promising and substantive program that we will continue to refine and improve to ensure we serve our students well for decades to come.
More details about this past year are described below:
Undergraduate Admissions
This spring, we offered admission to 14,249 applicants from a pool of 64,481; this translates to an admissions rate of 22%—down from 25% in spring 2017. This year’s entering class is significantly larger than we expected; applicants accepted our offers of admission in record numbers. Our incoming class is approximately 3,620 students, 320 above our target. We believe a major attraction for prospective students is the flexibility they will have to move among majors as their interests evolve. Moreover, our class continues to become more diverse as well as accomplished. Seventeen percent of our admitted applicants identify as underrepresented minorities and 17.8% of admittees are Pell Grant recipients. This fall was the second year of our Pell Grant initiative by which we increased our financial aid to meet full need without loans for students receiving federal Pell Grants.
Graduate Admissions
We are seeing encouraging results in graduate admissions for fall 2018.
We launched the Master’s Initiative for the Charles River Campus four years ago, with a goal of increasing our master’s and professional degree population by 5% per year over three years. We’ve done that for four consecutive years, building on existing programs and initiating a set of new and valuable degrees.
Our PhD programs are thriving. While we continue to assess results, our five-year full-funding guarantee appears to be improving quality across the range of programs. For fall 2018, we had over 8,000 applicants for positions in our doctoral programs and admitted fewer than 15%. Nearly 40% of those accepted offers of admission.
We’ve seen a resurgence in School of Law admissions. Law school applications to BU Law grew by almost 8%—from 5,462 in 2017 to 5,891 in 2018. Yield increased by nearly 4 percentage points in 2018; acceptances decreased by nearly 4 percentage points to 25.8%. The LSAT and GPA medians of the entering class rose for the fourth consecutive year.
At the School of Medicine, the number of applications for the MD program has fallen, but the number of applicants qualified for interview increased. Fewer offers of admission were made but yield increased from 33% to 34%.
We’ve also seen substantial progress in master’s and PhD tracks at the College of Engineering with PhD enrollments between 2013 and 2018, increasing from 343 to 470 students and master’s enrollments increasing from 393 to 597. These translate to a combined increase of 31% in ENG’s graduate programs over a five-year period.
We are monitoring a downturn in applications to our online degree programs for which, in order to maintain quality, we necessarily see a commensurate reduction in acceptances.
Campaign for Boston University
Last year was an excellent year for the University’s Choose to be Great campaign. We raised a record $253 million and received $158 million in cash. Gifts to our annual funds grew to $23 million, the largest total in our history. As we move into the final year of the campaign, we are energized by the over 154,000 alumni and friends who have supported the University.
This past academic year, the impact of the campaign was apparent in many ways. Here are three highlights:
- In September 2017, we celebrated the opening of the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering which coincided with the establishment of the $100 million, endowed Kilachand Fund to support research at the intersection of life sciences and engineering.
- In January, we opened the Boston University Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre and College of Fine Arts Production Center as part of the move of the School of Theatre facilities to the Charles River Campus. The Booth Theatre and its associated education and production spaces are state-of-the-art facilities for students and staff in the theatre program. The central location ensures that the broader BU community has ready access to performances.
- In February, the BUild Lab sponsored by IDG Capital opened on Commonwealth Avenue as the home of Innovate@BU, the new all-University effort in innovation and entrepreneurship. The goal of Innovate@BU is to give our students the resources to turn ideas into tangible outcomes by providing makerspaces and a community of mentors to support some of our most driven and imaginative students. Innovate@BU is supported by a large group of alumni and friends, led by Trustee Hugo Shong, Founder and Global Chairman of IDG Capital. It is off to a marvelous start.
We are well positioned to finish the campaign with a flourish in September 2019.
Research Enterprise
Research and scholarship continue to thrive. In the past year, faculty received research awards totaling $486 million, a 21% increase from the previous year. This total was driven by large research awards, including:
- The National Science Foundation award to establish the Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials (CELL-MET)
- The establishment of the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Lung Cancer Center in the School of Medicine
- And additional funding to CARB-X (the initiative to address drug-resistance in bacteria) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK government.
Overall, our faculty received 781 new research awards.
Putting the importance of research funding in perspective, during the period FY2011–FY2018, the University has received over $2.9 billion of support for research, almost twice the $1.5 billion goal for our first fundraising campaign.
Budget and Capital Planning
In September, we closed the books on FY2018, another outstanding year for the University. We ended with $188 million in reserves, up from $180 million for FY2017. This successful conclusion is due to our longstanding practices of prudence and pursuit of efficiencies in operations. During the FY2011–FY2018 period, which roughly coincides with the campaign, we have generated $1.12 billion in reserves, which have been deployed to support the needs of the University.
This year’s reserves were affected by our commitment to the Pell Grant initiative, which necessarily increased our financial aid budget by $8.3 million more than planned, as well as by some expenses associated with the merger of Wheelock College into Boston University.
Of these reserves, $31.5 million went directly back to schools and colleges, according to revenue-sharing agreements, and $115.2 million was designated to ongoing or future capital projects, forming a major part of our capital budget. The remainder was used for faculty hiring, funding the development of a new student information system, and support of new academic initiatives.
Our endowment in FY2018 grew to $2.18 billion, with a preliminary net investment return of 8.6%. In this fiscal year, the endowment is budgeted to distribute $68.3 million to the University out of our budget of $2.45 billion, accounting for just over 2.7% of our expenses.
We have launched FY2019 with a solid budget built around cautious estimates for revenue growth. Our increase of 3.4% in undergraduate tuition, fees, and room and board was in the lowest quartile among our peers and tied with our lowest percentage increase in 20 years. The 2019 budget incorporates the additional financial aid needed to fund the second year of our Pell Grant initiative. We have also moved to allocate a portion of our expected annual reserves into the operating budget on a recurring basis with a focus on two important needs: funds for faculty hiring and renovation and renewal of our facilities.
Leadership Transitions
Academic
This year has seen a number of transitions in key academic leadership positions.
In the spring, we announced Angela Onwuachi-Willig as the Dean of the School of Law, succeeding Maureen O’Rourke, who concluded her 13-year tenure this summer. Angela is a renowned legal scholar and expert on employment discrimination, family law, and critical race theory. She joins us from the University of California, Berkeley. She holds her JD from the University of Michigan, and MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.
In August, we named Susan Fournier the Allen Questrom Professor and Dean of the Questrom School of Business. Susan joined Boston University in 2005 and became the Questrom Professor in Management in 2013. She most recently served as Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Research. Her scholarship focuses on branding and consumer behavior. Susan holds a PhD in marketing from the University of Florida and an MS in marketing from Pennsylvania State University, and has taught at Harvard Business School and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Several Faculty Advisory Committees have been launched this fall to help identify new deans for the College of Communication and the College of Arts & Sciences.
Tom Fiedler, Dean of the College of Communication, announced in June his intent to step down at the end of this academic year. Tom has served with distinction for 10 years during a period of dramatic transition in the media industry. During his tenure, we have strengthened our program by launching master’s degrees in emerging media studies and media ventures, both of which enhance our presence in Los Angeles.
In August, Dean Ann Cudd of Arts & Sciences left Boston University to become Provost at the University of Pittsburgh. Stan Sclaroff, Professor in the Department of Computer Science, has generously agreed to serve as Interim Dean as we launch the search for Ann’s replacement. Stan was serving as Associate Dean of the Faculty for Mathematical & Computational Sciences and, before that, as Chair of the Department of Computer Science. We hope to have permanent leadership for Arts & Sciences in place by the end of the academic year.
Administrative
This fall marked another very significant leadership transition. Todd Klipp (Senior Vice President, Senior Counsel, and Secretary of the Board of Trustees) retired after 34 years of service to the University, including 26 years as General Counsel (1987–2013). Todd served as wise counsel to the Board and to me during the last 13 years and oversaw the transformation of the governance of the University, starting with the first governance review in 2004. Erika Geetter, General Counsel since 2013, has taken on the additional role of Secretary of the Board, effective this fall.
Four other administrative leaders are taking on additional responsibilities.
This past spring, we implemented a reorganization of our information services area to enhance data collection, analysis, and management in support of decision-making and compliance. Leveraging the strength of our Institutional Research office, we established a new unit, Analytical Services & Institutional Research, reporting to Tracy Schroeder, Vice President of Information Services & Technology, who took on the additional title of Chief Data Officer.
Derek Howe now holds the title Vice President for Budget, Planning, and Business Affairs and has taken on expanded responsibilities in developing management systems that inform decision-making. The new Business Affairs office reporting to Derek includes some members of the Institutional Research office.
With the announced retirement in December of Peter Fiedler, Vice President for Administrative Services, we have transferred police, public safety, and mail services functions to Michael Donovan, Vice President for Campus Planning and Operations.
Finally, when Bob Donahue, Vice President for Government & Community Affairs, announced his decision to retire, we promoted Jake Sullivan to that position, where he is responsible for our relations with Boston, Brookline, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Summary
Our progress as a great urban research university is driven by the efforts of you—our faculty and staff. Your creativity, dedication, and hard work, combined with the accomplishments of our students, led to the advances we are making in education and research. It is impossible for me to capture the accomplishments of the entire community in a short letter, but we have listed promotions and awards to the faculty in the appendix.
Thank you for all your efforts.
Sincerely,
Robert A. Brown
President
Faculty: New Appointments, Honors, and Awards
A number of outstanding senior faculty have joined the University, including:
- Yves Atchade, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts & Sciences
- Qiang Cui, Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
- David Jernigan, Professor of Health Law, Policy & Management, School of Public Health
- Steven Kou, Allen Questrom Professor in Management, Professor of Finance, Questrom School of Business
- Matthew Kulke, Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
- Nina Mazar, Professor of Marketing, Questrom School of Business
- Perry Mehrling, Professor of International Political Economy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
- Sofya Raskhodnikova, Professor of Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences
- Adam Smith, Professor of Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences
Our faculty members continue to garner external recognition. Awards and honors bestowed on them over the past year include:
- College of Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor of Astronomy Wen Li, College of Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor of Mathematics & Statistics Jennifer Balakrishnan, and College of Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor of Physics Anushya Chandran were all named 2018 Sloan research fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
- College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Director of the Center for Systems Neuroscience Michael Hasselmo was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
- School of Medicine Professor of Neurology and Pathology, Director of the CTE Center, and Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Center Ann McKee was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People and the Boston Globe’s Bostonian of the Year, and received the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer’s Association.
- College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Hariri Institute’s Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security Ran Canetti received the 2018 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics.
- Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and College of Arts & Sciences Professor of International Relations and Political Science Vivien Schmidt received a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- College of Arts & Sciences Associate Professor of Chemistry Malika Jeffries-EL was named an American Chemical Society Fellow.
- Questrom Professor in Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior Karen Golden-Biddle, Questrom School of Business, was inducted as a Fellow of the Academy of Management.
- College of Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor of Sociology Joseph Harris was selected for an American Mathematical Society fellowship.
- College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Timothy Brown was named fellow of the American Psychological Association.
- School of Medicine Professor of Medicine Thomas Perls was selected for a fellowship by the Gerontological Society of America.
- College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Stefan Hofmann was honored with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award.
- Two professors were elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): College of Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering Joyce Wong and College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Mathematics & Statistics Eric Kolaczyk.
- David M. Myers Distinguished Professor and College of Arts & Sciences Chair Emeritus of Physics Larry Sulak was awarded the American Physical Society’s 2018 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in experimental particle physics.
- College of Engineering Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Head of the Division of Materials Science & Engineering, and College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Physics David Bishop was elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
- Henrik Selin, Associate Professor, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, and Faculty Associate, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was awarded a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich’s Institute for Advanced Study.
- School of Medicine Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology and Assistant Dean for Research Terence M. Keane received the Presidential Award from the Division of Trauma Psychology at the American Psychological Association.
- Kathleen MacVarish, Associate Professor of the Practice, Environmental Health, at the School of Public Health, received both the Network Member Impact Award from the National Network of Public Health Institutes and the Robert C. Periello Memorial Award/Sanitarian of the Year from the Massachusetts Environmental Health Association.
- Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine Professor and Chair of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Pushkar Mehra was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Boston University granted many faculty awards and honors over the past year, which include:
- College of Communication Professor of the Practice Gary Sheffer was appointed Sandra Frazier Professor in Public Relations.
- College of Arts & Sciences Professor John Porco was appointed Samour Family Professor in Organic Chemistry.
- Questrom School of Business Professor James Rebitzer was appointed Peter & Deborah Wexler Professor in Management.
- Peter Paul Career Development Professorships were awarded to Assistant Professor Megan Cole, Health Law, Policy & Management, School of Public Health; Associate Professor Ahmed Ghappour, School of Law; Assistant Professor Victor Kumar, Philosophy, College of Arts & Sciences; Assistant Professor Charlene Ong, Neurology, School of Medicine; and Associate Professor Portia Pedro, School of Law.
- Assistant Professor April Hughes, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences, received the East Asia Studies Career Development Professorship.
- The Aram V. Chobanian Assistant Professorship was awarded to Assistant Professor Hugo Aparicio, Neurology, School of Medicine.
- Assistant Professor Wenchao Li, Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, received the Peter Levine Career Development Professorship.
- The University Lecture in fall 2017 was presented by Wendy J. Gordon, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law, titled “The Liberty to Copy Unpatented Inventions: Potential Collisions with Trademark and Copyright Law.”
- The winner of the 2018 Undergraduate Academic Advising Award for Faculty was Lecturer Shoai Hattori, Neuroscience Program, College of Arts & Sciences.
- The 2018 Metcalf Cup and Prize Recipient was Associate Professor Brooke Blower, History, College of Arts & Sciences, and the 2018 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching Recipients were Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Co, Biology, College of Arts & Sciences, and Associate Professor James A. Wolff, Global Health, School of Public Health.
- College of Communication Associate Professor of Film & Television Charles Merzbacher received the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology.
- College of Arts & Sciences Professor of Economics Robert Margo received the 2018 Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award.
- Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine Associate Professor of Endodontics Sami Chogle was appointed the Herbert Schilder Professor in Endodontics.
- Belinda Borrelli, Professor of Health Policy & Health Services Research in the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, was named Research Collaborator of the Year by the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research.
The following faculty members were promoted to the rank of professor:
Emily Barman, Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences
Robert Chodat, English, College of Arts & Sciences
Luca Dal Negro, Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Ellen DeVoe, Clinical Practice, School of Social Work
Nancy Harrowitz, Romance Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
Stephen Kalberg, Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences
Emanuel Katz, Physics, College of Arts & Sciences
Karen Lasser, General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine
Stephanie Lee, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, School of Medicine
Hengye Man, Biology, College of Arts & Sciences
Mark Miller, Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Timothy Naimi, Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Siobhan O’Mahony, Strategy & Innovation, Questrom School of Business
Elizabeth Pearce, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition, School of Medicine
Carrie Preston, English, College of Arts & Sciences
Emily Rothman, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health
Jillian Shipherd, Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Kevin Wilson, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care, School of Medicine
Weiming Xia, Pharmacology, School of Medicine
The following faculty members were promoted to the rank of associate professor:
Marié Abe, Music, College of Fine Arts
Inna Afasizheva, Molecular & Cell Biology, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Music, College of Fine Arts
Robyn Cohen, Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Patricia Cortes, Markets, Public Policy & Law, Questrom School of Business
Laurie Craigen, Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Joanna Davidson, Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences
Caroline Flammer, Strategy & Innovation, Questrom School of Business
Jean Francis, Nephrology, School of Medicine
Christopher Gabel, Physiology & Biophysics, School of Medicine
Mikel Garcia-Marcos, Biochemistry, School of Medicine
David Glick, Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences
Jaimie Gradus, Psychiatry, School of Medicine, and Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Phillip Haberkern, History, College of Arts & Sciences
Matthew Jones, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care, School of Medicine
Nathan Jones, Special Education, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
Robert Joseph, Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine
Hiroaki Kaido, Economics, College of Arts & Sciences
Jessica Kramer, Occupational Therapy, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College
Brian Kulis, Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Deborah Lang, Dermatology, School of Medicine
S. Rebecca Martin, History of Art & Architecture, College of Arts & Sciences
Bobak Nazer, Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Joshua Pederson, Humanities, College of General Studies
Valentina Perissi, Biochemistry, School of Medicine
Russell Powell, Philosophy, College of Arts & Sciences
Julia Prentice, Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Zachary Rossetti, Special Education, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
Abby Rudolph, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Kate Saenko, Computer Science, College of Arts & Sciences
Nachiketa Sahoo, Information Systems, Questrom School of Business
Andrew Salama, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Anne Short Gianotti, Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences
Jeffrey Siracuse, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, School of Medicine
Konstantinos Spiliopoulos, Mathematics & Statistics, College of Arts & Sciences
Cara Stepp, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College
Jiayin (Monic) Sun, Marketing, Questrom School of Business
Mina Tsay-Vogel, Mass Communication, Advertising & Public Relations, College of Communication
Tammy Vigil, Mass Communication, Advertising & Public Relations, College of Communication
Andrew Wilson, Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care, School of Medicine
Yoon Sun Yang, World Languages & Literatures, College of Arts & Sciences
Jason Yust, Music, College of Fine Arts
Guanglan Zhang, Computer Science, Metropolitan College