Tiny Particles, Big Discoveries
At the world’s largest and most important particle physics lab, BU undergraduates work alongside PhDs to learn about the universe’s building blocks.
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A Student Start-up
Prianna Sharan was Innovate@BU’s 2025 Student Innovator of the Year. Now she’s taking her Popple app beyond Boston.
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The Power of Black Literature
English professor Koritha Mitchell studies the past to fight the injustices of today.
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Prose, Poetry, & Pixels
J. Keith Vincent and his students spent nine years building a digital archive of poems from The Tale of Genji, the world’s first novel.
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Baseball’s Data Revolution
Alum Mike Petriello is helping Major League Baseball reinvent the way we understand the national pastime.
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Big Picture
Could artificial intelligence be more powerful and use a fraction of the energy?
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Computer Science is Her Business
Sharon Goldberg’s cybersecurity software is helping companies protect their digital infrastructure
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America’s Poetry Ambassador Steps Down
After 36 years of teaching at BU, Robert Pinsky retires.
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Arts × Sciences 2025
View the full issue of the 2025 Arts x Science’ Magazine online.
Dean's Letter
While AI savvy is a very useful skill, the evolving labor market increasingly places high value on capabilities AI cannot replicate.
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Results
Arts & Sciences research in 2024–25 addressed real-world problems, with highlights including advancing environmental conservation, applying AI to stolen artifacts, and exploring extraterrestrial life.
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Back to School
A Pivot Fellowship is helping Earth and environment professor Wally Fulweiler learn data science.
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TV’s New Landscape
What does a low-rated 2015 sitcom have to do with the state of television today? A lot, says Vincent Stephens in his book Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television (Wayne State University Press, 2025).
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Learning by Doing
Arts & Sciences launched the Experiential Learning (EL) Connector in 2022 to raise awareness of internships, research, and other opportunities for students to learn by doing.
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New Hires
Meet some of the newest Arts & Sciences Faculty.
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More News
More news from the College of Arts and Sciences
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Vote with Thy Neighbor
America is famous for its so-called red states and blue states—territories in which most residents reliably vote Republican or Democrat, respectively.
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The Big Question
What is the potential of a quantum computing revolution? Three faculty members weigh in.