BU Neuroscientists Publish Theta Rhythm Findings in Journal “Science”
This finding provides experimental support for the role of oscillations in coding spatial location by neural circuits.
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Classicist Jeffrey Henderson Elected to AAAS
Jeffrey Henderson, the University’s William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language and Literature and a world-renowned classics scholar, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
David Ferry Wins Lilly Poetry Prize
This $100,000 award recognizes lifetime accomplishments, and is one of the most prestigious awards given to U.S. poets.
Fallou Ngom Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
CAS Associate Professor of Anthropology Fallou Ngom is among this year’s group of 180 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients, one of the top honors in academia.
H. Eugene Stanley Appointed to Warren Distinguished Professorship
President Robert A. Brown last week named H. Eugene Stanley of the College of Arts & Sciences and Wendy Gordon of the School of Law as William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors.
Graduate Faculty of Political Science Showcases Discipline’s Strength at BU
GFPS will add a new dimension within the scholarly community among political science faculty members, crossing departmental boundaries and clearing administrative hurdles.
William Grimes Named to Council on Foreign Relations
The economic fallout from Japan’s nuclear crisis—supply interruptions and lost business—has caught the eye of William Grimes, a BU expert on Asian economies.
Bats Worth Billions To Agriculture: Pest-Control Services At Risk
Thomas Kunz shows how declines of bat populations caused by a new wildlife disease and fatalities at industrial-scale wind turbines could lead to substantial economic losses on the farm.
NASA Satellites Detect Extensive Drought Impact on Amazon Forests
Widespread reductions in the greenness of forests in the vast Amazon basin in South America were caused by the record-breaking drought of 2010.
BU Awarded Korea Foundation Grant
Boston University has been awarded a grant from the Korea Foundation to support the establishment of a new professorship in Korean and Comparative Literature.