{"id":5984,"date":"2010-06-17T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2010-06-24T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:04:44","slug":"new-boston-high-scholars-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/17\/new-boston-high-scholars-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;Boston High Scholars&#8221; honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5985\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Boston-city-seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Boston city seal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Boston-city-seal-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Boston-city-seal-300x299.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/Boston-city-seal.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Twenty-one of the best and brightest of this year&#8217;s\u00a0Boston public high school graduates are the latest class of honorees in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/\"> Boston University<\/a> Boston High School <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/admissions\/apply\/costs-aid-scholarships\/scholarships\/merit\/\">Scholarship Program<\/a>, the largest and longest-running such program for urban public high school students in the nation.\u00a0\u00a0In <a title=\"ceremonies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/news\/releases\/display.php?id=2095\" target=\"_blank\">ceremonies<\/a> hosted by BU <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/president\/\">President Robert Brown <\/a>and Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/mayor\/\">Thomas Menino<\/a>, the 21 were awarded $3.3 million worth of four-year full-tuition scholarships &#8211;bringing\u00a0to $132 million in scholarships\u00a0for 1,759 scholars since then<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/silber\/\"> BU President John Silber<\/a> launched the program in 1973.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s winners share an &#8220;upward bound&#8221; weekend in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitnh.gov\/\">New Hampshire <\/a>before spending next week on the BU campus in an orientation program of lectures, labs and receiving their housing assignments for next fall.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Ruth Shane, 617-353-3551, <a href=\"mailto:rshane@bu.edu\">rshane@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-one of the best and brightest of this year&#8217;s\u00a0Boston public high school graduates are the latest class of honorees in the Boston University Boston High School Scholarship Program, the largest and longest-running such program for urban public high school students in the nation.\u00a0\u00a0In ceremonies hosted by BU President Robert Brown and Mayor Thomas Menino, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[700],"tags":[3189,3181,1659,176,3180,3186,3182,3185,3187,3183,3188,406,3184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}