Enhancing Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Collaborations
In 2021-2022, Arts & Sciences took an active role to enhance disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations and connections in research and education within Arts & Sciences and across BU. This included the launch of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, an intellectual home for faculty and students engaged in social science research across the BU campus that grew out of the strategic planning process.
Can This Interdisciplinary Team Measure Human Flourishing?
Helmed by BU sociologist Deborah Carr and funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the study will look at people who flourish in adversity.
Learning About Barriers to Economic Mobility
The Cascading Lives Project tells stories of hospitality workers during the pandemic.
Not every family moment is worth framing. In CAS’ Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, child development experts are studying the secret to happy, healthy kids—and stress-free parents.
Using the Humanities to Improve Healthcare
Associate Professor of Religion Anthony Petro founded the BU Health Humanities Project to bring together students and faculty from the health sciences and the humanities and highlight the many beneficial connections between their fields.
There’s More to the Story behind Rare Glass Octopus Footage
A team led by Randi Rotjan, research associate professor and senior lecturer at Boston University in the Department of Biology and in the BU Marine Program, with help of Tim Shank of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, documented more than 100 species living symbiotically with deep-sea corals, including more than 10 symbiotic relationships between corals and other organisms that had never been observed before. Their team included BU student researchers and a postdoctoral fellow, as well as other scientists from Woods Hole and Boston Children’s Hospital.