{"id":103666,"date":"2025-04-22T10:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=103666"},"modified":"2025-04-22T10:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:56:05","slug":"c3-student-intern-honored-as-bu-graduate-student-employee-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2025\/04\/22\/c3-student-intern-honored-as-bu-graduate-student-employee-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"GMS C3 Student Intern Honored as BU Graduate Student Employee of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103667\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2025\/04\/25-1254-CRYS-014_crop-668x1000-1-425x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2025\/04\/25-1254-CRYS-014_crop-668x1000-1-425x636.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2025\/04\/25-1254-CRYS-014_crop-668x1000-1.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We are so proud of our GMS Community Catalyst Center student intern, Crystal Vejar (MAMS &#8217;25), who has been honored as Boston University&#8217;s Graduate Student Employee of the Year!<\/p>\n<p>During her internship, Crystal has taken the lead on planning and implementing C3 events and communicating with mentors and students across C3&#8217;s eight affinity groups. She is a dedicated peer mentor, a sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve, and a lab research assistant at the Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine. Crystal will soon graduate from the MS in Medical Sciences program at GMS and begin medical school in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Crystal! <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/bu-honors-best-student-employees-and-student-supervisor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story in <em>BU Today.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We also highlighted Crystal in a Fall 2024 Student Spotlight article. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2024\/11\/07\/student-spotlight-crystal-vejar-mams-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more about Crystal&#8217;s journey to BU here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are so proud of our GMS Community Catalyst Center student intern, Crystal Vejar (MAMS &#8217;25), who has been honored as Boston University&#8217;s Graduate Student Employee of the Year! During her internship, Crystal has taken the lead on planning and implementing C3 events and communicating with mentors and students across C3&#8217;s eight affinity groups. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20706,"featured_media":103667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7173,795,54,7074,1534],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103671,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103666\/revisions\/103671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}