CGS Professor Peter Busher Honored with a Metcalf Award
Read the full story at BU Today. When Peter Busher heard he had been nominated for a Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence this year, he was honored. But after a 28-year teaching career that had yielded at least five previous nominations, he figured his chances this time around were slim. “The joke is that it’s […]
Students Celebrate Capstone Turn-In
The Capstone Turn-In is, in the paraphrased words of Prof. Wexelblatt, the best 1/2 hour at CGS. It is a near-completion of a task of 1,000 hours of intensive work which draws on all the threads of the two-year CGS experience. It is a time of relief, of closure, of appreciation to the faculty, and recognition of outstanding student achievement, as Dean Wells distributed awards and honors.
Stone Distinguished Lecture: Brian Doyle on “Children and Other Slippery Miracles, Hawks and Other Delights, …”
The Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture took place on April 7 and was delivered by award-winning writer, essayist and editor Brian Doyle. Doyle spoke on the topic, “Children & Other Slippery Miracles, Hawks & Other Delights, Ruminations & Fulminations, Prayers & Poignancy, Jests & Snickering, Observations on the Astounding Mysteries of Women, Notes on Listening as the Greatest […]
Davida Pines Presents Lecture on History, Memoir, and Comics
View her talk on graphic novels about Sept 11.
Emmy-winning Comic Greg Fitzsimmons Returns to Alma Mater
Emmy award-winning BU and CGS alum
Adopting Sophia
Laura De Veau (CGS’87, COM’89, SED’95) describes her adoption of a baby girl.
Dean Honors Faculty With Awards
At a faculty celebration marking the start of the 2008-2009 academic year, College of General Studies Dean Linda Wells named the recipients of top faculty honors, Associate Professor Megan Sullivan and Assistant Professor Joellen Masters. Associate Professor of Rhetoric Megan Sullivan, who has been with the College of General Studies since 1996 and received tenure […]
Professor Robert Wexelblatt’s novel Zublinka Among Women wins a prize.
Professor Robert Wexelblatt’s newest book is Zublinka Among Women, a novel published in February 2008 by Ken Arnold Books. Zublinka Among Women has won the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Award grand prize for fiction. In the last year, Professor Wexelblatt has also published eight poems in The Café Review, Taj Mahal Review, The Cape […]
10 CGS alumni honored by Scarlet Key
An unprecedented number of CGS’06 alumni of the BU class of ’08 were tapped into the prestigious Scarlet Key society for their service to BU. This year an amazing ten CGS alumni were honored with a Scarlet Key. The honorees were Marc DiCristofaro, Rani Woods, Ricardo Junquera, Feather Moy-Welsh, Francesca Okolie, Erica Mosca, Katelyn Guastaferro, […]