{"id":98754,"date":"2024-07-01T07:54:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=98754"},"modified":"2024-07-01T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T12:04:19","slug":"welcome-to-melissa-l-gilliam-boston-universitys-11th-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2024\/07\/01\/welcome-to-melissa-l-gilliam-boston-universitys-11th-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Melissa L. Gilliam, Boston University&#8217;s 11th President"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/president-melissa-gilliam-on-impressions-challenges-and-ambitions\/?utm_campaign=bu_today&amp;utm_source=email_20240701&amp;utm_medium=intrograph&amp;utm_content=university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Conversation: Boston University President Melissa L. Gilliam on First Impressions, Challenges and Ambitions<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><em>BU<\/em><\/strong><em><strong> Today<\/strong>; <strong>July 1, 2024\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98753\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2024\/07\/crop-new-24-1341-GILLIAMMED-130-1-636x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"425\" class=\"wp-image-98753 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2024\/07\/crop-new-24-1341-GILLIAMMED-130-1-636x425.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2024\/07\/crop-new-24-1341-GILLIAMMED-130-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2024\/07\/crop-new-24-1341-GILLIAMMED-130-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2024\/07\/crop-new-24-1341-GILLIAMMED-130-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2024\/07\/crop-new-24-1341-GILLIAMMED-130-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa L. Gilliam, posing on the Boston University Medical Campus, officially took office as BU&#8217;s 11th president on July 1, 2024. Photo courtesy of BU Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, July 1, Melissa L. Gilliam took office as Boston University&#8217;s 11th president. Dr. Gilliam is a physician, educator, scholar, research scientist and leader in higher education who was named as the next president in fall 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to BU, Dr. Gilliam served as a provost and executive vice president of The Ohio State University, and previously spent most of her career at University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><em>BU Today <\/em>sat down with Dr. Gilliam to discuss her first impressions of the University, opportunities challenges she anticipates during her term and her hopes and ambitions for the time ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/president-melissa-gilliam-on-impressions-challenges-and-ambitions\/?utm_campaign=bu_today&amp;utm_source=email_20240701&amp;utm_medium=intrograph&amp;utm_content=university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Read the full interview by <em>BU Today<\/em> here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Conversation: Boston University President Melissa L. Gilliam on First Impressions, Challenges and Ambitions BU Today; July 1, 2024\u00a0 On Monday, July 1, Melissa L. Gilliam took office as Boston University&#8217;s 11th president. Dr. Gilliam is a physician, educator, scholar, research scientist and leader in higher education who was named as the next president in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20706,"featured_media":98753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[795,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98754"}],"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=98754"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98760,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98754\/revisions\/98760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}