“You invest in students who are working at BU, who may not be making industry-level salaries but who are working toward solutions to really tough social problems,” says Moorman, a BU overseer.
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies will take on the world’s greatest challenges
At this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Stephanie Brownell (GRS’15) received the National Ten-Minute Play Award, Abbey Fenbert (GRS’15) was awarded the Mark Twain Comedy Writing Award, and alumni Michael Parsons (GRS’12) and Steven Barkhimer (GRS’08) also won awards for their plays.
On April 30, members of the BU community from Boston to Beijing joined together for one unprecedented day of giving back. The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences raised over $300,000 during the University’s first-ever Giving Day.
A conference on the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s, held at CAS March 27-29, brought together leading thinkers and activists to discuss lessons learned during that revolutionary time and issues facing women today.
Building on its growing international profile and the global scope of its programs for research and education, Boston University is launching a new school, to be named for its largest benefactor and housed in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Departing Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will launch a new chapter in his life’s journey in February: as co-director of BU’s new Initiative on Cities.
On October 22, TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres invited a crowd of BU students to Marsh Plaza to win Red Sox World Series tickets and appear on her show. She got more than she bargained for.
Professor Richard Murray led an international team on an eight-week voyage to the Sea of Japan searching for clues to the underlying dynamics of the East Asian Monsoon System.
A Maya pyramid beautifully decorated with a rare polychrome-painted stucco frieze was unearthed by CAS researchers in July at the site of Holmul, a Classic Maya city in northeastern Guatemala.