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Bo s t on Unive rs it y Com m e nce m e n t 2022
B os to n U n i ver sity 149 TH Com m e n c e m e n t 2022 SUNDAY THE TWENTY-SECOND OF MAY ONE O’CLOCK NICKERSON FIELD BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Program The Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching Robert A. Brown PRESIDENT OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY Leslie Dietiker, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Prelude Concert Boston University Commencement Brass Choir Aaron Goldberg, Director The Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching Fanfare from La Péri Paul Dukas Constance A. Browne, School of Law Marche Militaire Française Camille Saint-Saëns A Western Fanfare Eric Ewazen Libertango Astor Piazzolla Conferring of the Honorary Degrees Robert A. Brown Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland Gay J. McDougall, Doctor of Laws Procession of the Nobles Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Richard C. Shipley, Doctor of Humane Letters Hymn to New England John Williams Marylou Sudders, Doctor of Laws Frederick Wiseman, Doctor of Humane Letters Processional Robert Woodward, Doctor of Laws Pomp and Circumstance March, No. 1 Edward Elgar Earl of Oxford’s March William Byrd Address Robert Woodward “Alatriste” Roque Baños Pomp and Circumstance March, No. 4 Edward Elgar Renaissance Dances—“La Mourisque” Tylman Susato Presentation of Candidates Jean Morrison UNIVERSITY PROVOST AND CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER, BOSTON UNIVERSITY Call to Order Richard D. Reidy Karen H. Antman VICE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY PROVOST OF THE MEDICAL CAMPUS, BOSTON UNIVERSITY National Anthem Ryan Van Fleet Promotion of Candidates to Degrees Robert A. Brown COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS ’23 President’s Charge to the Graduates Robert A. Brown Invocation Rabbi Jevin Eagle EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL Clarissima (words and music on page 20) Ryan Van Fleet Student Speaker Amanda Berke Benediction The Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES/ DEAN OF MARSH CHAPEL, BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES ’22 Recessional Boston University Commencement Brass Choir Presentation of the Class Gift Victoria Bond COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES ’22 “Go BU” Ranny Weeks and Bernie Fazioli Julia Willetts “Hey! Baby” Margaret Cobb and Bruce Channel COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION ’22 “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” Woody Guthrie/Dropkick Murphys Second Suite in F, Op. 28, March Gustav Holst Welcome from the Alumni Association Anthony Harrison PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI COUNCIL There is no student procession at the end of Commencement. Graduates and guests are asked to remain in their places until the platform party and faculty have left Nickerson Field. 2 3
Program The Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching Robert A. Brown PRESIDENT OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY Leslie Dietiker, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Prelude Concert Boston University Commencement Brass Choir Aaron Goldberg, Director The Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching Fanfare from La Péri Paul Dukas Constance A. Browne, School of Law Marche Militaire Française Camille Saint-Saëns A Western Fanfare Eric Ewazen Libertango Astor Piazzolla Conferring of the Honorary Degrees Robert A. Brown Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland Gay J. McDougall, Doctor of Laws Procession of the Nobles Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Richard C. Shipley, Doctor of Humane Letters Hymn to New England John Williams Marylou Sudders, Doctor of Laws Frederick Wiseman, Doctor of Humane Letters Processional Robert Woodward, Doctor of Laws Pomp and Circumstance March, No. 1 Edward Elgar Earl of Oxford’s March William Byrd Address Robert Woodward “Alatriste” Roque Baños Pomp and Circumstance March, No. 4 Edward Elgar Renaissance Dances—“La Mourisque” Tylman Susato Presentation of Candidates Jean Morrison UNIVERSITY PROVOST AND CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER, BOSTON UNIVERSITY Call to Order Richard D. Reidy Karen H. Antman VICE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY PROVOST OF THE MEDICAL CAMPUS, BOSTON UNIVERSITY National Anthem Ryan Van Fleet Promotion of Candidates to Degrees Robert A. Brown COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS ’23 President’s Charge to the Graduates Robert A. Brown Invocation Rabbi Jevin Eagle EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL Clarissima (words and music on page 20) Ryan Van Fleet Student Speaker Amanda Berke Benediction The Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES/ DEAN OF MARSH CHAPEL, BOSTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES ’22 Recessional Boston University Commencement Brass Choir Presentation of the Class Gift Victoria Bond COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES ’22 “Go BU” Ranny Weeks and Bernie Fazioli Julia Willetts “Hey! Baby” Margaret Cobb and Bruce Channel COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION ’22 “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” Woody Guthrie/Dropkick Murphys Second Suite in F, Op. 28, March Gustav Holst Welcome from the Alumni Association Anthony Harrison PRESIDENT OF THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI COUNCIL There is no student procession at the end of Commencement. Graduates and guests are asked to remain in their places until the platform party and faculty have left Nickerson Field. 2 3
The Metcalf Cup and Prize The Metcalf Cup and Prize FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING F O R EXCELLENCE I N TE A CH I NG The Metcalf Cup and Prize is the teaching and the identification and Constance A. Browne highest faculty advancement of those School of Law honor of Boston members of the faculty University. The who excel as teachers, award recognizes of which this cup is groups, in matters ranging from housing and and encourages symbolic.” employment to disability rights and divorce. outstanding teaching Under her guidance, law students have The Metcalf Cup and in the context of a handled approximately 400 cases—serving $10,000 Prize and gold research institution medal is presented as lead counsel and bringing a passion for and expresses the University’s deepest annually at Commencement. Each year, justice and service to their clients and purpose. candidates are nominated by students, community. She has earned the law school’s The Metcalf Awards were established in faculty, or alumni, and the finalists are Pro Bono Faculty Award and is a sought- 1973 by an endowment gift from the late selected by a screening committee of after expert on experiential legal education. Dr. Arthur G. B. Metcalf (1908–1997), faculty and students. Over the course of Professor Browne transforms talented but an alumnus, faculty member, generous the year, the committee solicits and inexperienced students into confident, well- benefactor, Trustee of Boston University, reviews supporting materials from the equipped lawyers ready to take on tough and Chair of the Board of Trustees from candidates and their department chairs. 1976 to 1994. “The purpose of the The members of the committee visit the cases immediately upon graduation. “Had I prize,” Dr. Metcalf stated at the time of classes of the finalists and, in the spring, not learned from Professor Browne how to its creation, “is to establish a systematic present their recommendations to the carry myself in court and advocate for my C procedure for the review of the quality of University’s President. onstance A. Browne is a clinical clients,” one student said, “I would never professor of law at Boston University’s have made it through my first few years as a School of Law, where she has taught for lawyer.” Another wrote: “Connie is a tireless The Metcalf Awards 40 years. Her pedagogy has fundamentally advocate for her students and her clients.” improved instruction at the law school and Professor Browne earned a BA in English, F O R EXCELLENCE I N TE A CH I NG focuses on excellence in crucial skills and with distinction, from the University of competencies critical to lawyering: incisive Maine at Portland-Gorham, and her JD writing, negotiation, counseling, trial from Boston College Law School, where The Metcalf Awards for Excellence University is committed to educating advocacy, and professional ethics. she graduated cum laude and served as an in Teaching are given annually to students to be reflective, resourceful one or more of the finalists in the leaders in an interconnected world. Professor Browne has been instrumental in articles editor of the Law Review. competition for the Metcalf Cup and We accomplish this through the work developing experiential instruction—whether She has been appointed to serve as Guardian Prize. Each winner of the Metcalf of great teachers who inspire their in the innovative Lawyering Lab, the Student Ad Litem for indigent and disabled tenants by Award receives $5,000 and a silver students. These instructors encourage Trial Team Program, or Effective and the Boston Housing Court and the Newton medal. As President Robert A. Brown exploration, debate, cooperation, the Ethical Depositions, her popular seminar and Waltham District Courts. Prior to has said regarding the symbolic pursuit of the unknown, and discovery; that employs multiple simulations. Students joining the Boston University School of Law significance of the awards, “Teaching they introduce ancient wisdom and the under her supervision in the Civil Litigation civil clinical program, Professor Browne is an art. It is the essential function latest scholarship. The Metcalf Awards and Justice Program represent Boston-area worked in private practice. of a university, as it is our mission to recognize and encourage outstanding clients, often from traditionally marginalized mold the next generation of informed teaching and thereby support our citizens and creative thinkers. Boston fundamental mission.” Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography 4 5
The Metcalf Cup and Prize The Metcalf Cup and Prize FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING F O R EXCELLENCE I N TE A CH I NG The Metcalf Cup and Prize is the teaching and the identification and Constance A. Browne highest faculty advancement of those School of Law honor of Boston members of the faculty University. The who excel as teachers, award recognizes of which this cup is groups, in matters ranging from housing and and encourages symbolic.” employment to disability rights and divorce. outstanding teaching Under her guidance, law students have The Metcalf Cup and in the context of a handled approximately 400 cases—serving $10,000 Prize and gold research institution medal is presented as lead counsel and bringing a passion for and expresses the University’s deepest annually at Commencement. Each year, justice and service to their clients and purpose. candidates are nominated by students, community. She has earned the law school’s The Metcalf Awards were established in faculty, or alumni, and the finalists are Pro Bono Faculty Award and is a sought- 1973 by an endowment gift from the late selected by a screening committee of after expert on experiential legal education. Dr. Arthur G. B. Metcalf (1908–1997), faculty and students. Over the course of Professor Browne transforms talented but an alumnus, faculty member, generous the year, the committee solicits and inexperienced students into confident, well- benefactor, Trustee of Boston University, reviews supporting materials from the equipped lawyers ready to take on tough and Chair of the Board of Trustees from candidates and their department chairs. 1976 to 1994. “The purpose of the The members of the committee visit the cases immediately upon graduation. “Had I prize,” Dr. Metcalf stated at the time of classes of the finalists and, in the spring, not learned from Professor Browne how to its creation, “is to establish a systematic present their recommendations to the carry myself in court and advocate for my C procedure for the review of the quality of University’s President. onstance A. Browne is a clinical clients,” one student said, “I would never professor of law at Boston University’s have made it through my first few years as a School of Law, where she has taught for lawyer.” Another wrote: “Connie is a tireless The Metcalf Awards 40 years. Her pedagogy has fundamentally advocate for her students and her clients.” improved instruction at the law school and Professor Browne earned a BA in English, F O R EXCELLENCE I N TE A CH I NG focuses on excellence in crucial skills and with distinction, from the University of competencies critical to lawyering: incisive Maine at Portland-Gorham, and her JD writing, negotiation, counseling, trial from Boston College Law School, where The Metcalf Awards for Excellence University is committed to educating advocacy, and professional ethics. she graduated cum laude and served as an in Teaching are given annually to students to be reflective, resourceful one or more of the finalists in the leaders in an interconnected world. Professor Browne has been instrumental in articles editor of the Law Review. competition for the Metcalf Cup and We accomplish this through the work developing experiential instruction—whether She has been appointed to serve as Guardian Prize. Each winner of the Metcalf of great teachers who inspire their in the innovative Lawyering Lab, the Student Ad Litem for indigent and disabled tenants by Award receives $5,000 and a silver students. These instructors encourage Trial Team Program, or Effective and the Boston Housing Court and the Newton medal. As President Robert A. Brown exploration, debate, cooperation, the Ethical Depositions, her popular seminar and Waltham District Courts. Prior to has said regarding the symbolic pursuit of the unknown, and discovery; that employs multiple simulations. Students joining the Boston University School of Law significance of the awards, “Teaching they introduce ancient wisdom and the under her supervision in the Civil Litigation civil clinical program, Professor Browne is an art. It is the essential function latest scholarship. The Metcalf Awards and Justice Program represent Boston-area worked in private practice. of a university, as it is our mission to recognize and encourage outstanding clients, often from traditionally marginalized mold the next generation of informed teaching and thereby support our citizens and creative thinkers. Boston fundamental mission.” Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography 4 5
The Metcalf Award Honorary Degree Recipient FO R EXCELLENCE I N T EAC H IN G Leslie Dietiker Gay J. McDougall Wheelock College of Education & Human Development DOCTOR of Laws public works project present models that can enrolled in the London School of Economics be replicated in any community. and Political Science and earned her LLM in public international law. Student evaluations are routinely effusive and include praise such as “thought-provoking,” Ms. McDougall led the Southern Africa “enriching,” and “inspiring.” One student Project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil wrote that Professor Dietiker “had many Rights Under Law for 15 years, where suggestions I was able to implement right she worked tirelessly to free thousands of away to improve my teaching.” political prisoners from jail. She later helped administer South Africa’s first democratic According to her program director, elections in 1994, which seated Nelson Professor Dietiker aims to “get her teacher- Mandela as president and ended Apartheid. students to rethink their 12 years of dull In recognition, the government of South and disconnected mathematics lessons and Africa awarded her its national medal of imagine a K–12 curriculum specifically honor for noncitizens. designed to engage and intrigue students.” L eslie Dietiker is an associate professor of mathematics education at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education Professor Dietiker is an elected executive committee member of the International Society G ay McDougall grew up in the South during the Jim Crow era. But that For 14 years, she served as executive director of Global Rights, a group that worked with activists in more than 10 countries. for Design and Development in Education and & Human Development. For nearly a did not stop her from being chosen as the Ms. McDougall has also served in a variety leads professional development for teachers decade, she has inspired prospective and first Black student to attend Agnes Scott of capacities for the United Nations, from in school districts in Greater Boston. She has practicing teachers to spark a passion for College in Decatur, Georgia, thereby special rapporteur on minority issues to won numerous grants and awards, including math in their students. initiating integration of the school. special rapporteur on systemic rape and National Board Certification for Teaching She deftly combines collaborative classroom It also marked the beginning of a life devoted sexual slavery during war. President Biden Mathematics for her work at the high school inquiry, immersive fieldwork, and dedicated to human rights—at home and abroad. nominated her to a third term on the UN level and a prestigious CAREER grant from mentorship. The result engages students and Committee on the Elimination of Racial the National Science Foundation. Ms. McDougall registered first-time Black Discrimination. elicits curiosity and wonder, qualities they She earned a BS in mathematics, with emphasis voters after the Voting Rights Act was bring to classrooms around the country. Ms. McDougall was awarded the prestigious in teaching, from California Polytechnic passed. Later, she traveled through the Professor Dietiker’s popular “mathematical South identifying civil rights violations MacArthur Fellowship in 1999 for her work State University and a PhD in mathematics tours” of Boston, which she helped develop with the US Commission on Civil Rights. on behalf of international human rights. She education from Michigan State University. with colleagues and doctoral students over is Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence with Prior to her work at BU, Professor Dietiker After graduating from Yale Law School, the Leitner Center for International Law and the years, are but one example of that taught math and computer science at a public she worked for the National Conference of Justice at Fordham Law School and the engagement. Determining percentages of city high school in San Francisco for 17 years. A Black Lawyers, and soon recognized that Center on Race, Law and Justice. land devoted to green space or comparing frequent panelist and presenter at national racial discrimination is a global issue. She the length of the Boston Marathon course conferences, she has contributed to several to that of the number of trucks used for a books and math curricula. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography Photo courtesy of District of Columbia Bar Association 6 7
The Metcalf Award Honorary Degree Recipient FO R EXCELLENCE I N T EAC H IN G Leslie Dietiker Gay J. McDougall Wheelock College of Education & Human Development DOCTOR of Laws public works project present models that can enrolled in the London School of Economics be replicated in any community. and Political Science and earned her LLM in public international law. Student evaluations are routinely effusive and include praise such as “thought-provoking,” Ms. McDougall led the Southern Africa “enriching,” and “inspiring.” One student Project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil wrote that Professor Dietiker “had many Rights Under Law for 15 years, where suggestions I was able to implement right she worked tirelessly to free thousands of away to improve my teaching.” political prisoners from jail. She later helped administer South Africa’s first democratic According to her program director, elections in 1994, which seated Nelson Professor Dietiker aims to “get her teacher- Mandela as president and ended Apartheid. students to rethink their 12 years of dull In recognition, the government of South and disconnected mathematics lessons and Africa awarded her its national medal of imagine a K–12 curriculum specifically honor for noncitizens. designed to engage and intrigue students.” L eslie Dietiker is an associate professor of mathematics education at Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education Professor Dietiker is an elected executive committee member of the International Society G ay McDougall grew up in the South during the Jim Crow era. But that For 14 years, she served as executive director of Global Rights, a group that worked with activists in more than 10 countries. for Design and Development in Education and & Human Development. For nearly a did not stop her from being chosen as the Ms. McDougall has also served in a variety leads professional development for teachers decade, she has inspired prospective and first Black student to attend Agnes Scott of capacities for the United Nations, from in school districts in Greater Boston. She has practicing teachers to spark a passion for College in Decatur, Georgia, thereby special rapporteur on minority issues to won numerous grants and awards, including math in their students. initiating integration of the school. special rapporteur on systemic rape and National Board Certification for Teaching She deftly combines collaborative classroom sexual slavery during war. President Biden Mathematics for her work at the high school It also marked the beginning of a life devoted inquiry, immersive fieldwork, and dedicated nominated her to a third term on the UN level and a prestigious CAREER grant from to human rights—at home and abroad. mentorship. The result engages students and Committee on the Elimination of Racial the National Science Foundation. Ms. McDougall registered first-time Black Discrimination. elicits curiosity and wonder, qualities they She earned a BS in mathematics, with emphasis voters after the Voting Rights Act was bring to classrooms around the country. Ms. McDougall was awarded the prestigious in teaching, from California Polytechnic passed. Later, she traveled through the Professor Dietiker’s popular “mathematical MacArthur Fellowship in 1999 for her work State University and a PhD in mathematics South identifying civil rights violations tours” of Boston, which she helped develop on behalf of international human rights. She education from Michigan State University. with the US Commission on Civil Rights. with colleagues and doctoral students over is Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence with Prior to her work at BU, Professor Dietiker After graduating from Yale Law School, the Leitner Center for International Law and the years, are but one example of that taught math and computer science at a public she worked for the National Conference of Justice at Fordham Law School and the engagement. Determining percentages of city high school in San Francisco for 17 years. A Black Lawyers, and soon recognized that Center on Race, Law and Justice. land devoted to green space or comparing frequent panelist and presenter at national racial discrimination is a global issue. She the length of the Boston Marathon course conferences, she has contributed to several to that of the number of trucks used for a books and math curricula. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography Photo courtesy of District of Columbia Bar Association 6 7
Honorary Degree Recipient Honorary Degree Recipient Richard C. Shipley Marylou Sudders DOCTOR of HUMANE LETTERS DOCTOR OF Laws website with information and resources A fierce advocate for social justice, about the latest research, including Ms. Sudders helped pass key legislative personalized, minimally invasive treatment reforms in Massachusetts—particularly options. His generosity has also included relating to mental health—and has earned a $2.5 million gift in 2008 to endow numerous civic and professional honors, the Richard C. Shipley Professorship in including Social Worker of the Year Management and $4 million in 2013 to from the Massachusetts Chapter of the endow the Beverly A. Brown Professorship National Association of Social Workers. for the Improvement of Urban Health. Governor Charlie Baker appointed Mr. Shipley earned his bachelor’s degree Ms. Sudders to direct the Massachusetts and MBA, with highest honors, from BU’s Executive Office of Health and Human Questrom School of Business. He assumed Services, starting in 2015. She has since the leadership of his family’s business, restructured MassHealth, reformed the the Shipley Company, a world leader in child welfare system, confronted the opioid circuit board technology and semicon- epidemic, and strengthened community- based services—all while overseeing D F uring the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston ductor manufacturing. He later founded or Marylou Sudders (CAS’76, SSW’78), University saw the rapid adoption of Shiprock Capital LLC, a venture capital a professional path emerged from early 12 agencies with a combined budget of digital tools by faculty to transform their firm specializing in emerging technology personal experience. Raised in a household $26 billion and 22,000 employees that teaching and meet the needs of students. companies. shaped by mental illness, the future deliver essential services to one in three Richard Shipley (Questrom’68,’72) saw Secretary of Health and Human Services residents. Mr. Shipley is a Trustee Emeritus and an opportunity. member of the School of Medicine Dean’s for Massachusetts began pursuing her life’s An exceptionally tall order. Then COVID-19 Advisory Board as well as Chair and a work as soon as she set foot on campus at struck. The longtime BU Trustee donated $8 million Founding Fellow of the University’s William Boston University. in 2021 to fund a digital learning center. Ms. Sudders’ leadership during the ordeal The Shipley Center for Digital Learning Fairfield Warren Society. Here, Ms. Sudders earned a bachelor’s degree of the pandemic, including smoothing the & Innovation helps realize one of the goals Mr. Shipley is president of the Shipley in psychology, cum laude, and a master’s vaccine rollout, has been essential to the in the University’s 2030 Strategic Plan— Foundation, Inc., which benefits charities degree in social work. After graduating, her success of the Commonwealth—and Boston to expand digital instruction. in Florida and elsewhere, with emphasis tireless work on behalf of society’s most University—in combatting the disease and on supporting veterans, education, medical vulnerable led to a distinguished career, one ensuring fewer deaths and less suffering. Mr. Shipley has funded other University research, animal welfare, and environmental that included roles as Commissioner of Mental initiatives. In 2016, he established the To quote Governor Baker, “[Marylou] is the conservation. Health for Massachusetts and president and Shipley Prostate Cancer Research Center one you want in the foxhole with you when CEO of the Massachusetts Society for the at the School of Medicine along with a you’re in a situation like this, because she Prevention of Cruelty to Children. will never, ever quit.” Photo by Janice Checchio for Boston University Photography Photo courtesy of Commonwealth of Massachusetts 8 9
Honorary Degree Recipient Honorary Degree Recipient Richard C. Shipley Marylou Sudders DOCTOR of HUMANE LETTERS DOCTOR OF Laws website with information and resources A fierce advocate for social justice, about the latest research, including Ms. Sudders helped pass key legislative personalized, minimally invasive treatment reforms in Massachusetts—particularly options. His generosity has also included relating to mental health—and has earned a $2.5 million gift in 2008 to endow numerous civic and professional honors, the Richard C. Shipley Professorship in including Social Worker of the Year Management and $4 million in 2013 to from the Massachusetts Chapter of the endow the Beverly A. Brown Professorship National Association of Social Workers. for the Improvement of Urban Health. Governor Charlie Baker appointed Mr. Shipley earned his bachelor’s degree Ms. Sudders to direct the Massachusetts and MBA, with highest honors, from BU’s Executive Office of Health and Human Questrom School of Business. He assumed Services, starting in 2015. She has since the leadership of his family’s business, restructured MassHealth, reformed the the Shipley Company, a world leader in child welfare system, confronted the opioid circuit board technology and semicon- epidemic, and strengthened community- based services—all while overseeing D F uring the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston ductor manufacturing. He later founded or Marylou Sudders (CAS’76, SSW’78), University saw the rapid adoption of Shiprock Capital LLC, a venture capital a professional path emerged from early 12 agencies with a combined budget of digital tools by faculty to transform their firm specializing in emerging technology personal experience. Raised in a household $26 billion and 22,000 employees that teaching and meet the needs of students. companies. shaped by mental illness, the future deliver essential services to one in three Richard Shipley (Questrom’68,’72) saw Secretary of Health and Human Services residents. Mr. Shipley is a Trustee Emeritus and an opportunity. member of the School of Medicine Dean’s for Massachusetts began pursuing her life’s An exceptionally tall order. Then COVID-19 Advisory Board as well as Chair and a work as soon as she set foot on campus at struck. The longtime BU Trustee donated $8 million Founding Fellow of the University’s William Boston University. in 2021 to fund a digital learning center. Ms. Sudders’ leadership during the ordeal The Shipley Center for Digital Learning Fairfield Warren Society. Here, Ms. Sudders earned a bachelor’s degree of the pandemic, including smoothing the & Innovation helps realize one of the goals Mr. Shipley is president of the Shipley in psychology, cum laude, and a master’s vaccine rollout, has been essential to the in the University’s 2030 Strategic Plan— Foundation, Inc., which benefits charities degree in social work. After graduating, her success of the Commonwealth—and Boston to expand digital instruction. in Florida and elsewhere, with emphasis tireless work on behalf of society’s most University—in combatting the disease and on supporting veterans, education, medical vulnerable led to a distinguished career, one ensuring fewer deaths and less suffering. Mr. Shipley has funded other University research, animal welfare, and environmental that included roles as Commissioner of Mental initiatives. In 2016, he established the To quote Governor Baker, “[Marylou] is the conservation. Health for Massachusetts and president and Shipley Prostate Cancer Research Center one you want in the foxhole with you when CEO of the Massachusetts Society for the at the School of Medicine along with a you’re in a situation like this, because she Prevention of Cruelty to Children. will never, ever quit.” Photo by Janice Checchio for Boston University Photography Photo courtesy of Commonwealth of Massachusetts 8 9
Honorary Degree Recipient Honorary Degree Recipient Frederick Wiseman Robert Woodward DOCTOR of HUMANE LETTERS Doctor of Laws His approach yields extraordinary results. second in 2002 for coverage of the 9/11 Mr. Wiseman’s work has received Emmy terrorist attacks. Awards and an Honorary Academy Award, Aside from his Pulitzers, the legendary and has been honored by the Cannes reporter and editor has earned nearly every Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film major American journalism award, including Festival, London Film Festival, Venice the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative International Film Festival, the American Journalism, the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Society of Cinematographers, and many Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, more. He has received numerous lifetime and the Walter Cronkite Award for achievement awards. Excellence in Journalism. Mr. Wiseman holds a Bachelor of Arts in A graduate of Yale, Mr. Woodward has political science from Williams College, a authored or coauthored more than 20 Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School, books of nonfiction, starting with All the and several honorary doctorates. He is a President’s Men in 1974, which TIME MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow of the American magazine called “perhaps the most Academy of Arts & Sciences, an Honorary F or more than 50 years, Boston-born Frederick Wiseman has chronicled American life and institutions in plays and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a recipient of a Guggenheim S ince he typed out his first newspaper article more than 50 years ago, Bob Woodward’s name has become synonymous influential piece of journalism in history.” Aside from multiple volumes on Presidents Fellowship. Mr. Wiseman taught at Boston Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack more than 40 often groundbreaking films, with investigative journalism. His ground- University’s Law-Medicine Research Institute Obama, Mr. Woodward has written about including Titicut Follies; Hospital; Welfare; breaking reporting on the abuses of power from 1959 to 1961. the Supreme Court, the CIA, and the Federal Near Death; Ballet; In Jackson Heights; within the Nixon administration in the Reserve, as well as Hollywood drug culture. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library; His most recent film, City Hall—a look early 1970s called the president to account His most recent trio of titles examined the and Monrovia, Indiana. behind the scenes at Boston’s municipal and contributed to his resignation, while presidency of Donald Trump, each a New government—has been nominated for inspiring a generation of journalists eager Mr. Wiseman never appears or speaks in York Times best seller. several awards and was named best film to expose corruption and wrongdoing. his films; he presents scenes from everyday of 2020 by Cahiers du Cinéma magazine. Former CIA Director and Secretary of life without captions, interviews, or Mr. Woodward became a full-time reporter Defense Robert Gates once said he wished he voiceover. Still, he maintains that his films for the Washington Post in 1971 and has had recruited Mr. Woodward for intelligence are not unbiased, citing the many decisions worked in its newsroom ever since, cur- work: “[H]is ability to get people to talk made during shooting and editing. For that rently as associate editor. He has shared about stuff they shouldn’t be talking about reason, he refers to his work as reality fiction, in two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism: the is just extraordinary and may be unique.” rather than documentary, observation, first in 1973 for his reportage, with Carl or cinéma vérité. Bernstein, on the Watergate scandal; the Photo by Wolfgang Wesener courtesy of Zipporah Films Photo by Lisa Berg 10 11
Honorary Degree Recipient Honorary Degree Recipient Frederick Wiseman Robert Woodward DOCTOR of HUMANE LETTERS Doctor of Laws His approach yields extraordinary results. second in 2002 for coverage of the 9/11 Mr. Wiseman’s work has received Emmy terrorist attacks. Awards and an Honorary Academy Award, Aside from his Pulitzers, the legendary and has been honored by the Cannes reporter and editor has earned nearly every Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film major American journalism award, including Festival, London Film Festival, Venice the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative International Film Festival, the American Journalism, the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Society of Cinematographers, and many Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, more. He has received numerous lifetime and the Walter Cronkite Award for achievement awards. Excellence in Journalism. Mr. Wiseman holds a Bachelor of Arts in A graduate of Yale, Mr. Woodward has political science from Williams College, a authored or coauthored more than 20 Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School, books of nonfiction, starting with All the and several honorary doctorates. He is a President’s Men in 1974, which TIME MacArthur Fellow, a Fellow of the American magazine called “perhaps the most Academy of Arts & Sciences, an Honorary F or more than 50 years, Boston-born Frederick Wiseman has chronicled American life and institutions in plays and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a recipient of a Guggenheim S ince he typed out his first newspaper article more than 50 years ago, Bob Woodward’s name has become synonymous influential piece of journalism in history.” Aside from multiple volumes on Presidents Fellowship. Mr. Wiseman taught at Boston Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack more than 40 often groundbreaking films, with investigative journalism. His ground- University’s Law-Medicine Research Institute Obama, Mr. Woodward has written about including Titicut Follies; Hospital; Welfare; breaking reporting on the abuses of power from 1959 to 1961. the Supreme Court, the CIA, and the Federal Near Death; Ballet; In Jackson Heights; within the Nixon administration in the Reserve, as well as Hollywood drug culture. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library; His most recent film, City Hall—a look early 1970s called the president to account His most recent trio of titles examined the and Monrovia, Indiana. behind the scenes at Boston’s municipal and contributed to his resignation, while presidency of Donald Trump, each a New government—has been nominated for inspiring a generation of journalists eager Mr. Wiseman never appears or speaks in York Times best seller. several awards and was named best film to expose corruption and wrongdoing. his films; he presents scenes from everyday of 2020 by Cahiers du Cinéma magazine. Former CIA Director and Secretary of life without captions, interviews, or Mr. Woodward became a full-time reporter Defense Robert Gates once said he wished he voiceover. Still, he maintains that his films for the Washington Post in 1971 and has had recruited Mr. Woodward for intelligence are not unbiased, citing the many decisions worked in its newsroom ever since, cur- work: “[H]is ability to get people to talk made during shooting and editing. For that rently as associate editor. He has shared about stuff they shouldn’t be talking about reason, he refers to his work as reality fiction, in two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism: the is just extraordinary and may be unique.” rather than documentary, observation, first in 1973 for his reportage, with Carl or cinéma vérité. Bernstein, on the Watergate scandal; the Photo by Wolfgang Wesener courtesy of Zipporah Films Photo by Lisa Berg 10 11
Academic Traditions ACADEMIC DRESS: The academic dress worn by today’s graduates reflects a tradition THE ACADEMIC PROCESSION: The University Marshal presides over the Academic begun in the late 12th century, when universities were taking form. Originally the Procession, standing at the front of the platform. The mace is raised to signify that dress may have had a practical purpose: to keep the student warm in unheated buildings. Commencement is ready to begin; as it is lowered, the music begins and the graduates Today it is ceremonial. American colleges and universities subscribe to a code of academic begin to march onto the field. The graduates are then followed by the alumni and faculty dress first adopted in 1895. The Academic Costume Code is divided into three parts: caps, processions. The platform party follows the faculty; the President is the last person in the gowns, and hoods. procession. The traditional cap is the mortarboard, which is worn by our bachelor’s and master’s ORDER OF PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES: In today’s Commencement ceremony, degree candidates. The colored tassels worn from the mortarboards identify the the candidates for degrees at Boston University’s schools and colleges are introduced graduate’s discipline or field of study. Boston University’s doctoral candidates wear by their respective deans in the order of the anticipated number of candidates receiving an octagonal tam with gold tassels. degrees, from smallest to largest number of graduates. The gown for the bachelor’s degree is simple, with open sleeves. The master’s gown THE PRESIDENT’S COLLAR: The collar is a chain of repeating decorative links. has a long, curved extension at the bottom of the sleeve, and is narrow at the wrist. Such collars were often worn in the Middle Ages as a badge of office. The Boston Bachelor’s and master’s gowns are always untrimmed. The more ornate doctoral University collar, symbolizing the office of the President, is composed of the University gown is faced with velvet and features three velvet bars on each sleeve. The velvet seal alternating with the letters BU; a larger seal is suspended from it. The collar was is black for all disciplines except law, dentistry, and medicine, which are faced with designed in the 1980s by the late Dr. Arthur G. B. Metcalf, alumnus, Associate those fields’ traditional colors: purple, lilac, and green. The sleeves are bell-shaped Founder of the University, and Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees. and billowing. Some students also wear cords or stoles over their academic dress to THE MACE: The mace was originally a weapon of war; heavy, often with a spiked signify academic achievement or extracurricular involvement. metal head, it was designed to damage an opponent’s armor. It has evolved into a Bachelor’s candidates at Boston University do not wear hoods as part of their dress. symbol of institutional authority. The academic mace, representing the authority of The master’s hood is three and one-half feet in length, and the doctoral hood is four the university, is carried at the front of formal academic processions. feet with panels on the sides. The lining of the hoods is unique to the university: every The Boston University mace was also designed in the 1980s by Dr. Metcalf. It is university, according to the Academic Costume Code, has a distinct pattern. The fashioned of sterling silver and has two University seals intertwined on the button Boston University hood is lined with a single white chevron on a scarlet field. The end. In today’s ceremony, it is borne by the University Marshal. color of the velvet edging of the hood corresponds to the graduate’s field of study. Academic disciplines and associated colors seen at today’s Commencement include: THE RECESSIONAL: At the conclusion of the ceremony, the University Marshal leads the President and the platform party out of Nickerson Field, followed by the Arts, Letters, Humanities—white Music—pink faculty and alumni. There is no student procession at the end of Commencement. Business, Management—drab Philosophy—dark blue Graduates and guests are asked to remain in their places until the platform party, Dental Medicine—lilac Physical Therapy—teal faculty, and alumni have left the field. Education—light blue Public Health—salmon Engineering—orange Sciences—yellow Fine Arts—brown Social Work—citron Law—purple Theology—scarlet Medicine—green 12 13
Academic Traditions ACADEMIC DRESS: The academic dress worn by today’s graduates reflects a tradition THE ACADEMIC PROCESSION: The University Marshal presides over the Academic begun in the late 12th century, when universities were taking form. Originally the Procession, standing at the front of the platform. The mace is raised to signify that dress may have had a practical purpose: to keep the student warm in unheated buildings. Commencement is ready to begin; as it is lowered, the music begins and the graduates Today it is ceremonial. American colleges and universities subscribe to a code of academic begin to march onto the field. The graduates are then followed by the alumni and faculty dress first adopted in 1895. The Academic Costume Code is divided into three parts: caps, processions. The platform party follows the faculty; the President is the last person in the gowns, and hoods. procession. The traditional cap is the mortarboard, which is worn by our bachelor’s and master’s ORDER OF PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES: In today’s Commencement ceremony, degree candidates. The colored tassels worn from the mortarboards identify the the candidates for degrees at Boston University’s schools and colleges are introduced graduate’s discipline or field of study. Boston University’s doctoral candidates wear by their respective deans in the order of the anticipated number of candidates receiving an octagonal tam with gold tassels. degrees, from smallest to largest number of graduates. The gown for the bachelor’s degree is simple, with open sleeves. The master’s gown THE PRESIDENT’S COLLAR: The collar is a chain of repeating decorative links. has a long, curved extension at the bottom of the sleeve, and is narrow at the wrist. Such collars were often worn in the Middle Ages as a badge of office. The Boston Bachelor’s and master’s gowns are always untrimmed. The more ornate doctoral University collar, symbolizing the office of the President, is composed of the University gown is faced with velvet and features three velvet bars on each sleeve. The velvet seal alternating with the letters BU; a larger seal is suspended from it. The collar was is black for all disciplines except law, dentistry, and medicine, which are faced with designed in the 1980s by the late Dr. Arthur G. B. Metcalf, alumnus, Associate those fields’ traditional colors: purple, lilac, and green. The sleeves are bell-shaped Founder of the University, and Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees. and billowing. Some students also wear cords or stoles over their academic dress to THE MACE: The mace was originally a weapon of war; heavy, often with a spiked signify academic achievement or extracurricular involvement. metal head, it was designed to damage an opponent’s armor. It has evolved into a Bachelor’s candidates at Boston University do not wear hoods as part of their dress. symbol of institutional authority. The academic mace, representing the authority of The master’s hood is three and one-half feet in length, and the doctoral hood is four the university, is carried at the front of formal academic processions. feet with panels on the sides. The lining of the hoods is unique to the university: every The Boston University mace was also designed in the 1980s by Dr. Metcalf. It is university, according to the Academic Costume Code, has a distinct pattern. The fashioned of sterling silver and has two University seals intertwined on the button Boston University hood is lined with a single white chevron on a scarlet field. The end. In today’s ceremony, it is borne by the University Marshal. color of the velvet edging of the hood corresponds to the graduate’s field of study. Academic disciplines and associated colors seen at today’s Commencement include: THE RECESSIONAL: At the conclusion of the ceremony, the University Marshal leads the President and the platform party out of Nickerson Field, followed by the Arts, Letters, Humanities—white Music—pink faculty and alumni. There is no student procession at the end of Commencement. Business, Management—drab Philosophy—dark blue Graduates and guests are asked to remain in their places until the platform party, Dental Medicine—lilac Physical Therapy—teal faculty, and alumni have left the field. Education—light blue Public Health—salmon Engineering—orange Sciences—yellow Fine Arts—brown Social Work—citron Law—purple Theology—scarlet Medicine—green 12 13
About Boston University Boston Public Schools via the Thomas Since the adoption of our first Strategic M. Menino Scholarship and Community Plan in 2007, Boston University has Service Awards programs, the pioneering broadened the scope of research, Boston University’s impact extends far researchers to collaborate across disciplines merger of the BU Medical Center attracted and retained talented and beyond Commonwealth Avenue, Kenmore leverage the breadth and depth of the Hospital and Boston City Hospital, and diverse faculty, and introduced numerous Square, the Fenway Campus, and the University’s program offerings. a partnership that has enabled Boston academic collaborations. In 2017, Boston Medical Campus. Our students, faculty, and elementary school children to be tutored University adopted a Climate Action Plan alumni venture around the world to study, Since our founding in 1839, Boston through the Boston University Initiative that is embedded in our curriculum and conduct research, teach, and become a part University has embraced two principles for Literacy Development since 1998. research programs and is transforming of the communities in which they live. BU that have come to define higher education Students and faculty regularly participate our campus infrastructure—with is the third-largest private residential today: a conviction that higher education in a broad range of formal and informal the fundamental goal to reduce the university in the country today and is a should be accessible to all, and a belief community service activities. University’s environmental footprint. member of the Association of American that the pursuit of learning is enhanced by direct engagement with the community Today, Boston University’s 17 schools Boston University is organizing to Universities, the prestigious organization of and the world. and colleges enroll nearly 37,000 students lead in the emerging field of data leading research universities in the United from all 50 states as well as the District of sciences. To integrate computing and States and Canada. As a measure of our Boston University has traditionally Columbia, three US territories, and more data sciences across the University, in global reach, Boston University is currently valued diversity and offered educational than 140 countries. The nation’s first 2019 the University established a new conducting more than 300 separate opportunity without regard to race, class, collegiate international exchange program Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences research, service, and educational sex, or creed from our beginning. The was created here in the 19th century. Since with professors who bridge traditional programs and projects around the world. University was among the first to open then, Boston University’s Study Abroad disciplines and are less encumbered by Enduring dedication to excellence in all our divisions to women, the first to offerings have grown to include more than disciplinary boundaries. teaching, research, global education, and award a PhD to a woman, and the first 70 programs on six continents. This global coeducational medical college in the emphasis is integrated into the on-campus As we build upon our foundation community service are the touchstones world. Martin Luther King, Jr., perhaps curriculum, with courses and programs of excellence and look ahead with a of Boston University’s proud past and our most famous alumnus, studied here that bring an international perspective to Strategic Plan for the next decade and promising future. in the early 1950s, during a period when subjects from anthropology to zoology. beyond, we assess our strengths and In the rich tapestry of Boston University’s nearly half of this country’s doctoral listen to our entire BU community. history, one thread runs true: quality degrees earned by African American Boston University is continually evolving We continue to explore new pathways teaching by an outstanding faculty. students in religion and philosophy were to anticipate and meet the challenges of to offer an innovative, inclusive, and Students benefit from direct instruction awarded by Boston University. higher education, emerging technologies, accessible academic experience, conduct by dedicated professors who are and changing workplace expectations. important research, and expand BU’s actively involved in original research Boston University’s commitment to That capability was tested when the global impact. and scholarship, as well as from the community service and the City of University adapted to the COVID Boston remain strong. The early dream pandemic with a combination of safety Today’s graduates take their place in a University’s combination of a strong of an institution “in the heart of the protocols that enabled the University long line of alumni whose life-changing liberal arts foundation and exceptional city, in the service of the city” has been to continue advancing the education of educational experience at Boston University professional programs. Many students realized in numerous ways: through thousands of students, while sustaining prepared them to help serve, shape, and work closely with faculty mentors to millions of dollars in scholarships critical momentum in research and improve the world. advance the frontiers of human discovery. Opportunities for educators and provided annually to graduates of the clinical services. 14 15
About Boston University Boston Public Schools via the Thomas Since the adoption of our first Strategic M. Menino Scholarship and Community Plan in 2007, Boston University has Service Awards programs, the pioneering broadened the scope of research, Boston University’s impact extends far researchers to collaborate across disciplines merger of the BU Medical Center attracted and retained talented and beyond Commonwealth Avenue, Kenmore leverage the breadth and depth of the Hospital and Boston City Hospital, and diverse faculty, and introduced numerous Square, the Fenway Campus, and the University’s program offerings. a partnership that has enabled Boston academic collaborations. In 2017, Boston Medical Campus. Our students, faculty, and elementary school children to be tutored University adopted a Climate Action Plan alumni venture around the world to study, Since our founding in 1839, Boston through the Boston University Initiative that is embedded in our curriculum and conduct research, teach, and become a part University has embraced two principles for Literacy Development since 1998. research programs and is transforming of the communities in which they live. BU that have come to define higher education Students and faculty regularly participate our campus infrastructure—with is the third-largest private residential today: a conviction that higher education in a broad range of formal and informal the fundamental goal to reduce the university in the country today and is a should be accessible to all, and a belief community service activities. University’s environmental footprint. member of the Association of American that the pursuit of learning is enhanced by direct engagement with the community Today, Boston University’s 17 schools Boston University is organizing to Universities, the prestigious organization of and the world. and colleges enroll nearly 37,000 students lead in the emerging field of data leading research universities in the United from all 50 states as well as the District of sciences. To integrate computing and States and Canada. As a measure of our Boston University has traditionally Columbia, three US territories, and more data sciences across the University, in global reach, Boston University is currently valued diversity and offered educational than 140 countries. The nation’s first 2019 the University established a new conducting more than 300 separate opportunity without regard to race, class, collegiate international exchange program Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences research, service, and educational sex, or creed from our beginning. The was created here in the 19th century. Since with professors who bridge traditional programs and projects around the world. University was among the first to open then, Boston University’s Study Abroad disciplines and are less encumbered by Enduring dedication to excellence in all our divisions to women, the first to offerings have grown to include more than disciplinary boundaries. teaching, research, global education, and award a PhD to a woman, and the first 70 programs on six continents. This global coeducational medical college in the emphasis is integrated into the on-campus As we build upon our foundation community service are the touchstones world. Martin Luther King, Jr., perhaps curriculum, with courses and programs of excellence and look ahead with a of Boston University’s proud past and our most famous alumnus, studied here that bring an international perspective to Strategic Plan for the next decade and promising future. in the early 1950s, during a period when subjects from anthropology to zoology. beyond, we assess our strengths and In the rich tapestry of Boston University’s nearly half of this country’s doctoral listen to our entire BU community. history, one thread runs true: quality degrees earned by African American Boston University is continually evolving We continue to explore new pathways teaching by an outstanding faculty. students in religion and philosophy were to anticipate and meet the challenges of to offer an innovative, inclusive, and Students benefit from direct instruction awarded by Boston University. higher education, emerging technologies, accessible academic experience, conduct by dedicated professors who are and changing workplace expectations. important research, and expand BU’s actively involved in original research Boston University’s commitment to That capability was tested when the global impact. and scholarship, as well as from the community service and the City of University adapted to the COVID Boston remain strong. The early dream pandemic with a combination of safety Today’s graduates take their place in a University’s combination of a strong of an institution “in the heart of the protocols that enabled the University long line of alumni whose life-changing liberal arts foundation and exceptional city, in the service of the city” has been to continue advancing the education of educational experience at Boston University professional programs. Many students realized in numerous ways: through thousands of students, while sustaining prepared them to help serve, shape, and work closely with faculty mentors to millions of dollars in scholarships critical momentum in research and improve the world. advance the frontiers of human discovery. Opportunities for educators and provided annually to graduates of the clinical services. 14 15
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