In 2023-2024, Arts & Sciences faculty, staff, and students took an active role in building and strengthening disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations and connections in research and education in Arts & Sciences, throughout Boston University, and beyond, leading to new discoveries, creations, knowledge, understandings, and opportunities that might not have been possible otherwise. Here are some other examples from the past year.
The Hub of the Physics Universe
Suarez and her students, most of whom are women and people of color, are in the midst of a multiyear effort to build upgrades for the CMS so it can record more data than ever and help scientists better understand the nature of—and maybe even the origins of—the universe.
The World through the Eyes of Women
Travel writing is a growing interest among BU students and faculty, and a handful of scholars have recently turned their attention to a group of travelers who’ve too often been overlooked: women. Several faculty members meet regularly as part of an informal travel studies research group.
Connecting the Dots: How Does a Statistics Professor Map the Human Brain?
Interdepartmental collaborations at BU—like Statistics Professor Emily Stephen’s relationship with statistics and neuroscience— allow faculty to innovate and elevate each other, achieving greater advancements in their fields than they could alone.
Are We Really in a Sixth Mass Extinction?
Alisa Bokulich founded the Phi-Geo Group, a team of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates dedicated to exploring research in the philosophy of geosciences—currently the only one of its kind in the world. They meet weekly, often with visiting geoscientists, biologists, and climate scientists, and hold discussions about recent papers in the field.