Dean Sapiro Wins Harold Lasswell Award
The International Society for Political Psychology’s Harold Lasswell Award is a lifetime achievement award for “distinguished scientific contributions in the field of political psychology.”
CAS Professor and Alumna Work to Improve Energy Efficiency
CAS Alumna Marta Marello and Professor Robert Kaufmann are working with BU’s Sustainable Neighborhood Labs to improve energy efficiency for urban housing.
Three CAS Alumni Make Forbes’ “30 Under 30” List
According to Forbes, three of the nation’s greatest young “game changers, movers, and makers” are CAS alums, and their ideas are disrupting the fields of science and tech in big ways.
COSMIC CONNECTIONS@BU Shows Students a Day in the Life of a Physicist
Local high school students visited Boston University’s Physics Department earlier this month for CONNECTIONS@BU, a four-day event where students learned about scientists’ quest to uncover the mysteries of the universe and how it began.
Preston Wins 2015 United Methodist Teacher of the Year
Carrie Preston, associate professor of English and director of the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGS) program, recently won BU’s 2015 United Methodist Church Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.
Icicle Contest Heated Up February at CAS
As the snow piled on top of snow (on top of ice), and there became nowhere to put the stuff, like all New Englanders the CAS faculty got a little loopy last month. And what better way to express that zaniness and lighten the mood of a dismal month than with a “largest (or most interesting) icicle competition”?
Peirce Lecture: “The Silent Sex” Examines Representation of Women in Politics
Scholars and policy-makers have worked for decades to understand and improve the representation women receive from national and international political organizations. Tali Mendelberg, professor of politics at Princeton University, argues that their efforts will often fall short unless they also address institutional rules that impede women’s voices.
CAS Launches New Asian Studies Major
BU’s Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) has launched an innovative new major in Asian Studies. The new major provides a broad, interdisciplinary, and comparative perspective on how Asian peoples, nations, states, regions, and diasporas have developed. Unlike the East Asian Studies major, which is being phased out, Asian Studies encompasses South and Southeast Asia in addition to East Asia.
Internationally Acclaimed Russian Poet Vera Pavlova Visits CAS
Internationally acclaimed Russian poet Vera Pavlova visited campus during the fall semester to work with students on creative writing in Russian. Her work has been translated into twenty-three languages, and Pavlova is the author of eighteen poetry collections.
Bluestone Takes Preservation Studies to a New Level
CAS’s Preservation Studies Program is taking a big leap forward by hiring Daniel Bluestone as director. Born in Boston, Bluestone is among the most highly regarded preservation educators and preservation advocates in the United States.