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.
The Minor in Sustainable Energy allows a student in any four-year undergraduate School or College to complete a coherent suite of classes that reveals the interdisciplinary nature of energy studies.
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).
The grant will fund the purchase of a hybrid computing cluster that will combine high-performance computing CPU power with GPU accelerators.
A brief window of opportunity exists to shape the development of cities globally before a boom in infrastructure construction transforms urban land cover, according to researchers at Boston University, Yale, and Texas A & M.
Boston University College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) Professor of Psychology Helen Tager-Flusberg has been named the director of a new Autism Center of Excellence (ACE), to be located at BU. The ACE will be funded by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.