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.
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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.
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.
CAS Launches New Asian Studies Major
BU’s Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) has launched an innovative new major in Asian Studies. The new major provides a broad, interdisciplinary, and comparative perspective on how Asian peoples, nations, states, regions, and diasporas have developed. Unlike the East Asian Studies major, which is being phased out, Asian Studies encompasses South and Southeast Asia in addition to East Asia.
Internationally Acclaimed Russian Poet Vera Pavlova Visits CAS
Internationally acclaimed Russian poet Vera Pavlova visited campus during the fall semester to work with students on creative writing in Russian. Her work has been translated into twenty-three languages, and Pavlova is the author of eighteen poetry collections.
Conference on Sea Level Rise Draws Over 200 to BU
More than 200 attendees and speakers from around the world came together at the Metcalf Trustee Center for BU’s first conference on Sea Level Rise and the Future of Coastal Cities.
CAS Playwrights Triumph at Kennedy Center Festival
At this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Stephanie Brownell (GRS’15) received the National Ten-Minute Play Award, Abbey Fenbert (GRS’15) was awarded the Mark Twain Comedy Writing Award, and alumni Michael Parsons (GRS’12) and Steven Barkhimer (GRS’08) also won awards for their plays.
Local Schoolchildren Visit BU, Explore Neuroscience
On March 29, CAS held its inaugural BRAIN Day. Forty undergraduate volunteers demonstrated different aspects of neuroscience to 100 Boston-area students, grades 1-12, to increase public support and awareness of brain research.
Teachable Moments in Gator Country
Biology curriculum adds class on amphibians and reptiles, including a field trip to Florida that gets students up close and personal with scaly swamp-dwellers. Watch the video!