BU Neutrino Group Contributes to Nobel Prize in Physics
With the help of CAS professors, postdocs, and graduate students, a 20-year experiment solved the mystery of neutrinos—and won a Nobel Prize.
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Two New Warren Professors: Robert Pinsky and Howard Eichenbaum
Poet, brain researcher receive highest faculty distinction
Physicist Plamen Ivanov Wins $1 Million Keck Foundation Award
Studies how organ systems coordinate their functions and integrate as a network
Dean Cudd Announces New Associate Deans
As of September 1, CAS welcomed a new associate dean for social sciences and the first associate dean for mathematical & computational sciences.
Passing the Torch
On August 1, Dr. Ann Cudd took over as the new Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, which means that Virginia Sapiro has passed the torch after eight years leading the College. As she begins her well-earned sabbatical, Gina bequeaths a CAS that is very different from how she found it.
Stephen Grossberg Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
The Society of Experimental Psychologists honored Stephen Grossberg, professor of mathematics and psychology, with the 2015 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering theoretical research on how brains give rise to minds.
2015 CAS Teaching and Advising Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 Templeton Award for Excellence in Student Advising and the 2015 CAS Teaching Awards!
Susan Eckstein Awarded Guggenheim
Professor of International Relations and Sociology Susan Eckstein has been awarded the prestigious John Simons Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her continuing research on “Cuban immigration exceptionalism.”
Howard Eichenbaum Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Eichenbaum, director of the BU Center for Memory and Brain, has joined some of the world’s most accomplished thinkers as a fellow in the prestigious society.
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.”