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Fall 2025 Internships
Sharon Lee (CGS'25, SAR'27) Mentor: Robin Hulbert With Dr. Hulbert, I will be researching bacteria along the Charles River Esplanade. After collecting the samples, I will study them over a period of time to see what kind of influence it has on the environment. Fatumo Abdirahman(CGS'25, SAR'27) Mentor: Robin Hulbert Researching antibiotic resistant bacteria from... More
Breaking the Feedback Loop: Fossil Fuels, the Climate Crisis, and Democratic Decline
Online Symposium: October 27 & 28, 2026 Keynote Speaker: Daniel J. Fiorino, Director of the Center for Environmental Policy, American University School of Public Affairs, and author of Can Democracy Handle Climate Change? (Polity, 2018) and The Clean Energy Transition (Polity, 2022) Cosponsored by the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range... More
Recent CGS Graduate Had the Summer Experience of a Lifetime
This summer, Alex Kopaliani (CGS ‘25, QST ‘27) interned for RedBull’s Regional Sports Marketing Team in Dubai, UAE, covering the Middle East and North Africa. A Princeton, New Jersey native, Kopaliani is currently pursuing a major in Business Administration with a concentration in finance. He’s felt drawn to the business world since high school, citing an interest in creativity and the hands-on work environment often found in that field. More
Learning Assistants Program a “Win-Win-Win” for Students and Faculty
By Chelsea Feinstein Since 2011, the Learning Assistants (LA) program has been placing undergraduate students in Boston University lab courses to help improve student learning. Now, some students in the College of General Studies are getting the benefits of having LAs in their Natural Science courses. In Fall 2024, CGS piloted the... More
The Top Ten Reasons Why CGS May Be Right for You
Boston University’s College of General Studies is a two-year core-curriculum general education program that is part of a four-year degree at Boston University. It’s a nationally renowned program that has provided leadership in general education for more than 70 years. At CGS, you get to experience the best of both worlds:... More
Making the UN Personal with Colombe Cahen-Salvador
By Chelsea Feinstein Political activist Colombe Cahen-Salvador argued that the United Nations impacts everyone, and argued for reforms to help the institution tackle global problems like climate change as part of the Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series at the College of General Studies on Feb. 5. The annual lecture series, endowed... More
Students Recognized for Outstanding e-Portfolios
By Adriana Rivera In an interdisciplinary curriculum like that offered by the College of General Studies, making connections across courses is of paramount importance. Through the use of Digication’s e-Portfolio tool, students can do just that, compiling assignments from all of their courses into one concise package that showcases the depth and... More
2024 Capstone Award Winners
On October 18, the Boston University College of General Studies celebrated the outstanding students who received awards for the Capstone projects they completed last May. The Capstone project is a 50-page research paper that CGS students complete during their sophomore year. Students draw on two years of interdisciplinary studies, working... More
Meet Your CGS Student Government
This spring, the College of General Studies Class of 2027 elected new officers to represent their peers in the CGS Student Government Association for the upcoming year. We caught up with your representatives to talk about their CGS experiences and their plans for sophomore year. Muneeb Mahmood, President Why did you apply... More
Meet the Instructors: The CGS Sophomore-Year Experience
The CGS experience is unlike any other at Boston University. To celebrate the uniqueness of our program, we created a course that gives sophomores further insight into this experience while also equipping them with the tools and resources they need to continue their success at Boston University. CGS SY201 is a... More