Michael Holm’s New Book Examines U.S. Global Agenda in Post-War Europe
This year, the United Kingdom shocked the world and many of its own citizens when it voted to exit the European Union. The vote struck a blow to the idea of European unity and collaboration—a few of the themes whose origins Michael Holm examines in his new book, The Marshall Plan: A New Deal for […]
Gregg Jaeger Co-Authors Book on Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication
Gregg Jaeger’s new book, Quantum Metrology, Imaging, and Communication, carries on Jaeger’s interdisciplinary work in the field of quantum mechanics and quantum information. Published by Springer press in 2017, the book is co-authored with Jaeger (associate professor of natural science and mathematics at the College of General Studies), David Simon (BU alumnus and professor at […]
Hallstein Receives Outstanding Book Award for Bikini-Ready Moms
Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Boston University College of General Studies associate professor of rhetoric, received the 2016 Outstanding Book Award at the 39th annual conference of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language & Gender. The conference was held from October 13th – 16th in Chicago, Illinois. Hallstein received this award for her recent book, […]
2016 Capstone Award Winners Tackle Global and Local Problems
On October 21, Boston University College of General Studies celebrated the outstanding students who received awards for their Capstone projects. The Capstone project is a 50-page research term paper that CGS students complete in their sophomore year. It draw on two years of interdisciplinary studies as they work together as a team to synthesize data […]
Christopher Fahy Publishes Essay in New Book on Louisa May Alcott
CGS Senior Humanities Lecturer, Christopher Fahy, has contributed an essay in a recently published volume entitled Critical Insights: Louisa May Alcott. The work is written on 19th century American novelist, Louisa May Alcott, the author of Little Women. The essays in this volume provide a closer look into Alcott’s beliefs and her popular works such […]
Studying Climate Change, One Tree at a Time
“As the new generation, we definitely know the effects of global climate change, and we know it’s an issue,” Eliandro Tavares (CGS’16, CAS’18) says. Eliandro is a part of the climate research team lead by Michael Dietze, a CAS associate professor of earth and environment at BU. During the summer, Eliandro, Dietze and other researchers […]
Dean McKnight Presents at the Dickens Society Annual Symposium
Natalie McKnight, dean and professor of humanities at Boston University College of General Studies, recently gave a panel presentation at the Dickens Society 21st Annual Symposium: Adapting Dickens. Held from July 11-13 in Reykjavik, Iceland, the conference featured scholars from around the world discussing the rich and varied adaptations of Charles Dickens’ novels. The presentations […]
Pederson Releases Book on Child Murder and Atonement in American Literature
In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a mother who has just escaped slavery kills her toddler daughter to prevent her from being recaptured. In Joyce Carol Oates’ My Sister, My Love, a six-year-old is brutally murdered. In Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark, an infant is left in the woods to die. In John Updike’s Rabbit, Run a child […]
Professor Cordner Discusses Education Outside the Classroom
In her new book, Education in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Exclusion as Innovation, Professor Cordner analyzes the tradition of independent learning in 19th-century England. In her analysis, Cordner discusses the impact of self-education on renowned literary minds such as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy and George Gissing, all of whom were barred from traditional […]
The Impact of Parental Incarceration: Dean Sullivan Releases New Book
1.7 million children currently have parents in the United States prison system. 30% of them will follow in their parents’ footsteps. Those are the astounding statistics that are discussed at length in Associate Dean Megan Sullivan’s new book, Parental Incarceration: Personal Accounts and Developmental Impact. The book, which is now available on Amazon and Routledge.com, […]