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The Kilachand Hall student dormitories

Kilachand Honors College appoints new director

Jules Germek April 20, 2023
Melissa Holt, current associate dean of Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, is announced to be the next director of Kilachand Honors College starting July 1.
border studies program trip to texas-mexico border

BU students experience migration crisis first hand at Texas-Mexico border

Eden Mor March 22, 2022
Students with BU’s Initiative on Forced Displacement traveled to the Texas-Mexico border over spring break.
Three women in the Queens of Syria film

BU screens ‘Queens of Syria’ doc highlighting universality of Greek plays, stories of refugees

Ilana Keusch March 9, 2021
The 2014 documentary "Queens of Syria" was screened at a BU virtual event March 2 with a following Q&A session Thursday. The film depicts how dozens of refugee women fleeing Syria banded together to perform a Greek tragedy "The Trojan Women," creating art through their grief.
Piper Kerman at a virtual webinar

‘Orange is the New Black’ author talks prison reform at interdisciplinary BU event

Emma Vacirca February 25, 2021
Piper Kerman, author of “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison," spoke about criminal justice reform at a BU event co-sponsored by Boston University’s Law Student Affairs Office, Law Student Government Association, Kilachand Honors College and Center for the Humanities on Monday.
Boston University’s Kilachand Hall student dormitory. The Kilachand Leadership Advisory Board is advocating for Kilachand Honors College to have its own seats in the Student Government Senate. OLIVIA FALCIGNO/ DFP FILE

KHC clashes with StuGov for representation in Senate

Nathan Lederman November 23, 2020
Student Government has members from every undergraduate college at Boston University, with the exception of Kilachand Honors College, which is currently fighting for a Senate seat.
Demonstrators in front of a Roxbury police station, protesting police brutality. On Wednesday, Boston University held a Day of Collective Engagement to encourage faculty and students to have conversations about race. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Faculty, students spend day engaging in multi-faceted conversations on race

Cameron Morsberger June 24, 2020
BU hosted a “Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles” Wednesday to encourage campus-wide conversation about racism. 
Boston University’s Initiative on Cities building on Bay State Road. The IoC created a program called MetroBridge to get students involved in local urban health issues. 
MADDIE MALHOTRA/ DFP FILE

BU students tackle urban health issues across Massachusetts

Damian Walsh January 24, 2019

Boston University students in the Kilachand Honors College will have the opportunity to make a difference in communities across the state in a new global health program called MetroBridge this year. MetroBridge...

Students of Kilachand Honors College present projects they created as part of a 3-week course they recently completed in Beirut, Lebanon. PHOTO BY KIRAN GALANI/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Kilachand students present projects to help refugees

Kiran Galani September 14, 2018
After participating in a 3-week summer course aimed at helping refugees in Lebanon, students in the Arvind and Nandlal Chandan Kilachand Honors College shared their experiences and discussed the results of their work at a presentation Thursday.
Author Zadie Smith speaks during a BU book club breakfast held at BU on Monday. Smith was on campus to talk about her novel “Swing Time.” PHOTO BY ALLEGRA PEELOR/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Zadie Smith talks ‘Swing Time,’ creative process during book club breakfast

Lillian Ilsley-Greene March 28, 2018

Zadie Smith entered the room and took her seat, unnoticed. Tuesday morning, the Colloquium Room of Boston University’s Photonics Center filled slowly with students and professors. Attendees gathered...

OP-ED: Kilachand Honors College is between a rock and a hard place

OP-ED: Kilachand Honors College is between a rock and a hard place

Editors April 19, 2017

Op-Eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Since its origin, the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Honors College has suffered...

GRAPHIC BY GABRIELLE DIPIETRO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Minority college students are more likely to face sexual assault, study finds

Ellie French March 22, 2017

On Friday, two studies were released by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health about sexual assault and minorities on college campuses. The first study found that students...

The Boston Women's Workforce Council aims to address the wage gap and close it. PHOTO COURTESY PIXABAY

Boston Women’s Workforce Council works to close wage gap

Blau Ramos January 18, 2017

By Blau Ramos and Sabrina Schnur The Boston Women’s Workforce Council, created by Mayor Martin Walsh in order to close the gender wage gap in the city, will continue its work by hosting a membership...

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