BU to Launch the East Coast’s Largest GPU Cluster
Boston University researchers this month will fire up the largest academic GPU (graphics processing unit) computer cluster on the East Coast, thanks to a gift from Hewlett-Packard.
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BU Archaeologists Partner with Iraqi University
A team of archaeologists will partner with educators at Mosul University on an innovative program to revive higher education and cultural heritage management in Iraq.
CAS Faculty Members Named Hariri Junior Fellows
The Hariri Institute for Computing at BU is pleased to announce its second cohort of Junior Faculty Fellows. The Fellows program supports broader collaborative research in these areas.
Gift Establishes Judaic Studies Fellowship
Boston University recently announced the establishment of the Drapkin-Fasel Graduate Fellowship Fund in Judaic Studies, made possible by a gift of $1.1 million from the late Dr. Fasel.
Center for the Study of Europe To Launch European Lecture Series
The Center for the Study of Europe has been awarded a grant from the European Union Commission for a public lecture series by European artists, writers, public intellectuals, and ambassadors titled “Getting to Know Europe: The EU Inside Out.”
Seven BU Mathematicians Named American Mathematical Society Fellows
The American Mathematical Society has named six faculty members in Boston University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics to its inaugural class of fellows.
CAS Scientists Named to Landsat Satellite Team
At 40 years old, the Landsat program is the longest running satellite imaging program on (or above) Earth. The new Landsat Science Team includes two CAS scientists: Assistant Professor of Earth & Environment Robert Kennedy and Chair of Earth & Environment Curtis Woodcock.
Geologist “Rocks” Lecture Tour of Europe, N. America
Ethan Baxter has spent his career studying the geological processes that affect the evolution of the Earth’s crust and the crust’s interactions with the mantle and surface. The lectures, funded by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), emphasized processes that occur over long periods of geologic time.
Earth and Environment Launches New Minor in Sustainable Energy
The Minor in Sustainable Energy allows a student in any four-year undergraduate School or College to complete a coherent suite of classes that reveals the interdisciplinary nature of energy studies.
Knuth Prize Goes to Computer Science’s Levin
Leonid Levin’s career began in the Soviet Union, where he conducted pathbreaking work on computational complexity. This month, he gave the Knuth Prize Lecture to a gathering of colleagues at the Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science in New Brunswick, NJ.