Jeffrey Henderson, the University’s William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature and a world-renowned classics scholar, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
This $100,000 award recognizes lifetime accomplishments, and is one of the most prestigious awards given to U.S. poets.
CAS Associate Professor of Anthropology Fallou Ngom is among this year’s group of 180 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients, one of the top honors in academia.
President Robert A. Brown last week named H. Eugene Stanley of the College of Arts & Sciences and Wendy Gordon of the School of Law as William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors.
GFPS will add a new dimension within the scholarly community among political science faculty members, crossing departmental boundaries and clearing administrative hurdles.
The economic fallout from Japan’s nuclear crisis—supply interruptions and lost business—has caught the eye of William Grimes, a BU expert on Asian economies.
Thomas Kunz shows how declines of bat populations caused by a new wildlife disease and fatalities at industrial-scale wind turbines could lead to substantial economic losses on the farm.
Widespread reductions in the greenness of forests in the vast Amazon basin in South America were caused by the record-breaking drought of 2010.
Boston University has been awarded a grant from the Korea Foundation to support the establishment of a new professorship in Korean and Comparative Literature.
CAS Professor of Economics John Harris’ article on the Harris Todaro model of migration and employment in poor countries was picked as one of the top 20.