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.
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An Investment in the Arts Bears Fruit
The buzz about BU’s three-year MFA in Playwriting is spreading: applications tripled during the most recent cycle and student playwrights just won two national Kennedy Center awards.
Arts & Sciences Students, Alumni Win Prestigious NSF Fellowships
This year, eight GRS students and eight CAS alumni were among the 2,000 winners of National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships.
Memorial Service Held for Daryl Carr
Please join friends, family, and colleagues for a memorial service for Daryl Carr on Sunday, April 19th, 2015 at 2:00 PM at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel.
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”?