A delegation of Boston University (BU) faculty, including the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, joined other Discovery Channel Telescope partners this weekend to celebrate the new telescope’s “first light” (first observation of a distant astronomical object).
The MacArthur Foundation recently approved a $500,000 grant to a group of BU researchers to “support improving the scientific understanding of water and fisheries resource use in the Tonle Sap region” of Cambodia.
CAS professors James Winn of the Department of English and James McCann of the Department of History are taking a temporary break from their normal duties to focus on a year of intensive research, with help from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
On June 5, Venus will make one of its rare transits across the surface of the sun. The Boston University Astronomy Department and BU Center for Space Research will host an event to allow as many visitors as possible a safe glimpse of this event.
In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists including CAS’ William Saturno have uncovered the only known mural in an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it’s not just any mural.
What’s that going on in Andrew Duffy’s class? Is it a NASCAR demonstration? (Duffy’s been known to crash model cars for his students’ enlightenment.) No. It is the kind of innovative teaching that won Duffy the Metcalf Cup and Prize, the University’s top teaching award.
With its guaranteed anonymity and slam-book style candor, RateMyProfessor.com is viewed by some faculty with trepidation. Marisa Milanese, a College of Arts & Sciences Writing Program senior lecturer, can breathe easy on that account.
An international consortium of researchers, including CAS Assistant Professor of Biology Sean Mullen, has discovered promiscuous sharing of large regions of DNA code among species by sequencing the genome of a South American butterfly.
BU’s Center for Polymer Studies received a major three-year grant to provide opportunities for disadvantaged high school students to engage in year-round cutting-edge science research and industry internships.
Sven Birkerts, editor of the AGNI Review, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Birkerts has been editor of AGNI, which is affiliated with the CAS Creative Writing Program, since July 2002.