Professor of Philosophy Juliet Floyd has been appointed as the Borden Parker Bowne Professorship in Philosophy and Professor of Earth & Environment Mark Friedl has been appointed as the William Goodwin Aurelio Professorship in Mathematics and Science.
Professor Floyd
is an international authority on the thought of Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of logic, language, and mathematics and science. Her research focuses on the interplay between logic and philosophy from the 18th to the 20th centuries and extends into the philosophy of symbolic forms and their social meanings. She is also interested in the study of emerging media and everyday life in a computationally driven world. Her research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fulbright Program, and the American Philosophical Society, and she recently won a multi-year Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Grant (with James E. Katz and Rachell Powell) to support faculty development in philosophy of emerging computational technologies (2016-19).
Professor Floyd has served as the president of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy, as well as in a variety of capacities for other scholarly societies. In 2019, she co-directed The Mentoring Project For Pre-tenure Women Faculty in Philosophy. At Boston University, she has served on the College of Arts & Sciences Academic Promotion and Tenure committee for fourteen years, as well as on numerous committees across the College and the University, including the Provost’s Council for Faculty Development and Inclusion and the Trustee Scholars Selection Committee. She has also served in many capacities within the Philosophy Department, and has been engaged with the BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH), including as a member of the executive committee. She recently co-chaired the faculty committee to draft an expanded BUCH charter (2022). She has been appointed as the next Director of the BUCH, starting July 1.
Professor Friedl
is a world-recognized expert in ecology, micro-meteorology, and remote sensing. His research uses remote sensing to examine biogeophysical patterns and processes at the Earth’s surface, particularly how land cover and ecosystem properties affect surface climate, how land surface biophysics influence the Earth’s weather and climate system, and how human activities are shaping the planet and affecting the global biosphere. Professor Friedl has built a massive database of satellite observations to study changing patterns in land cover for use in global modeling. His discoveries in how climate change affects ecosystems places Professor Friedl at the forefront of the field. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher with 38,665 citations as of this writing, according to Google Scholar. He is currently the principal investigator on grants totaling $4.8 million and is a co-pi on grants totaling $2.8 million and is director of the Boston University Center for Remote Sensing.
In addition to his research, Professor Friedl is a respected teacher and mentor of graduate students, 20 of whom have obtained their PhDs under his guidance. In the department of Earth & Environment, he has served as department chair, Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and associate chair, as well as chair of the Academic Program Review Committee. Within the professional community, Professor Friedl has served on multiple science teams for NASA. He is currently a member of the Landsat & Science Team, the Multi-Source Land Imaging Team, and the Land Science Data Analysis and Multi-Disciplinary Research Team. He has served as an associate editor or member of the editorial board of three journals.