Chris Ategeka ’11, M.S. ’12 is an award-winning entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of UCOT Inc., a company with a unique model creating solutions for the unintended consequences of technology.
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In her four years at Boston University, Archelle Thelemaque (COM’21) has amassed an impressive list of accomplishments, among them three stints as a student government officer, being a Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground student ambassador, and interning at global public relations firm Ketchum PR. And that only begins to scratch the surface.
Now the Posse scholar can add one more accolade: this Sunday, she’ll address more than 3,000 members of the undergrad Class of 2021 as the student speaker at BU’s 148th Commencement.
The PR major and Georgia native will share the stage with the undergraduate ceremony’s main speaker, US Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), who will receive an honorary degree. (Moderna chairman and cofounder Noubar Afeyan, also receiving an honorary degree, will be the speaker at that morning’s graduate student ceremony.)
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Hectic. Bittersweet. Something I’ll never forget. Unique. Those are some of adjectives and phrases members of BU’s Class of 2021 chose to describe a senior year overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As this year’s Senior Brunch was approaching, we reached out to a number of seniors, asking them to sum up their final year of college in a single word or phrase. For all of them, as for people all over the world, especially students, it was a year marked by ups and downs, highs and lows. Our video debuted during Senior Brunch on April 30, and we thought it deserved a bigger audience. So take a look at how the Class of 2021 will remember their last year on campus.
Class of 2021 Will Be Honored at Virtual Senior Brunch Today
Grab your snacks, remote seniors it’s brunch time. On-campus seniors get a boxed brunch from Dining Services. Photo by Amax Photo/iStock Commencement
Event begins at 1 pm. Pour your drinks accordingly
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Bust out the Bloody Mary mix and the mimosas this year, the Senior Breakfast has become the Senior Brunch. The festivities begin at 1 pm sharp.
The annual event predates Warren Towers, the GSU, and Walter Brown Arena and marks the official start of Commencement celebrations and Senior Week. This year’s later start time was designed to better accommodate students studying and living in different time zones.
This year, BU’s annual Senior Breakfast became Senior Brunch.
On Friday, April 30, the Class of 2021 tuned in to the Zoom ceremony to toast one another and officially kick off Commencement 2021 festivities.
And, of course, to find out who this year’s Commencement speaker would be. Because there will be two separate ceremonies on Commencement day, May 16 one for grad students and another for graduating seniors word came that there will be two speakers: US Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), a trailblazing politician who briefly attended Boston University, will be the speaker at the afternoon undergraduate ceremony, and Noubar Afeyan, cofounder and chairman of Moderna Therapeutics, Inc., will address students at the morning graduate ceremony.