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.”
The American Mathematical Society has named six faculty members in Boston University’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics to its inaugural class of fellows.
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.
As a faculty member, you are well aware of this… To assist you in your role as an academic advisor, the CAS Academic Advising Center would like to make you aware of two new resources.
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.
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.
A team of researchers in Boston University’s Psychology Department have found that, despite years of scientific training, even professional chemists, geologists, and physicists from major universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Yale cannot escape a deep-seated belief that natural phenomena exist for a purpose.
Bennett Goldberg, a professor in the CAS Physics Department, has been inspiring students and conducting cutting-edge research for decades. Now, he has been given this year’s United Methodist Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award.
Contributing to the festivities of Alumni Weekend 2012, a number of CAS departments offered special programs and presentations for returning alumni and friends.
A team of about 20 BU students are designing a small satellite called BUSAT, the Boston University Satellite for Applications and student Training. It is part of a competition sponsored by the US Air Force known as the University Nanosat Program (UNP).