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.
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Project “GREEN” to Study EU’s Emerging Role in the World
BU’s International Relations and Political Science departments have been named partners in a multimillion-euro project to study the role of the European Union (EU) in world.
International Relations/Political Science to Partner in Europe-focused International Programs
BU’s International Relations and Political Science departments have been named associate partners in a multimillion-euro project to establish the Erasmus Mundus joint doctorate program to be called Globalization, the EU, and Multilateralism (GEM).
French Expulsion of Gypsies Creates Controversy
The French and other European governments’ treatment of Gypsies is far more complicated and historically fraught than many contemporary human rights activists understand it to be.
Sovereign Bank to Underwrite Spanish Culture Programs
BU and Sovereign Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Banco Santander (Spain), have entered an agreement by which the bank will provide BU $300,000 a year for three years to support a number of programs related to Hispanic studies.
Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance East Asian Archaeological Publications Database
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a 26-month, $600,000 grant to BU to support the development of ARC/Base, an online, multilingual bibliographic database of East Asian archaeology, based in the International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History.
Grant Strengthens BU Language Learning
Boston University has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to strengthen the abilities of future military officers in five critical world languages.
BU Researchers Help Montenegrins Preserve Culture
Department of Archaeology Senior Research Associate Christina Luke and archaeology graduate student Marta Ostovich (GRS’10) visit Montenegro.