Category: News
Language on the Brink
SED Professor, Catherine O’Conner, teaches a Linguistic Field Methods class where undergraduate and graduate students learn to properly document a language—how to describe its grammar, build a dictionary, and compile texts of its legends and myths. Some students gain experience in the field through documenting a threatened Cameroonian tongue called Medumba.
Students Capture Daily Life in Havana and Beyond
School of Communication professors Essdras Suarez, Boston Globe Photographer and Pulitzer-winner, and Stephen Kinzer (CAS’73), a former New York Times Foreign Correspondent, took their classes of COM students to Cuba this past March to capture Cuban life.
An Unconventional OB/GYN
Recent MED grad Ashish Premkumar (CAS’10, MED’13) and the lessons in global health he brought back from Lebanon.
Why Turks Are So Angry
BU CAS Professor of Anthropology, Jenny White, writes about the Turkish protests happening globally and the reasons behind the anger.
Why the United States Should Stay out of Syria
BU College of Arts and Sciences Professor Andrew Bacevich weighs in on the Gordian knot of the upheaval in Syria: when it comes to understanding the conflict’s historical context and implications, Washington “is manifestly clueless and powerless.”
BU Women’s Lacrosse Competes in Japan
The Boston University women’s lacrosse team is in Japan until June 7 for the International Friendship Games and contests against several Japanese teams. While overseas, the Terriers have faced international competition, have been exposed to a different culture, and have promoted lacrosse globally.
Latin America Playing a Risky Game by Welcoming in the Chinese Dragon
BU CAS International Relations Professor Kevin Gallagher, debates whether or not China's presence as an important trade and investment partner will help or hinder the Latin American economy.
Guantanamo: the Legal Mess Behind the Ethical Mess
An interview with BU School of Law professor, Susan M. Akram, explaining the questionable legality of force-feeding at Guantanamo Bay under international law.
BU Dental School Students Travel to Mexico to Volunteer with LIGA
An article on the challenges and successes of four dental medicine students who volunteered their skills and expertise in dental care to impoverished citizens while traveling through Mexico.
Rethinking World Literature
College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Wiebke Denecke's work to create a world literature anthology and her effort to expand the definition of "literature" for the 21st century.
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