
University’s Health, Clinical Rankings Climb
For the second year in a row, BU’s health and medical education programs have been named among the top 100 worldwide in the 2013–2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, conducted by Thomson Reuters. The influential survey ranked BU 22nd for clinical, preclinical, and health programs, an advancement from 29th place last year.

Touching Beauty Hooked on the beauty of Chinese art, CAS alum is respected expert at Christie’s
Christie’s senior international director of Chinese works of art and ceramics, Athena Zonars (CAS’82), is captivated by the beauty of the pieces she sells for the auction house.

Renegotiating Bilateral Treaties Should not Scare off Investors
Back in the early 1990s, a newly unshackled South Africa wanted to send a strong signal to financial markets that the country was not hostile to foreign capital.

Doctoral Students Earn Fulbrights for Study in Africa
The U.S. Department of Education (DoE) announced recently that Karl Hass, a PhD candidate in musicology, and Benjamin Twagira, a PhD candidate in history, are being awarded a total of $85,000 in Fulbright-Hayes dissertation fellowships to pursue the research for their dissertations in Ghana and London.

Fulbright Starts Efforts to Help Alumni Keep Global Ties
Boston University has been listed as one of this year’s Fulbright Program “top producers!” in the Research Institution category. Top producing institutions in were highlighted in the October 28th edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.