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Faculty

Photo: Three young women hold up puppets on their right hand and smile into the camera. From left, she has short brown hair and wears a monochromatic tan outfit. In the middle, a white woman with long brown hair and a stripped shirt. On the right, a Black woman with shoulder length straight hair. She wears an all black outfit.

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Communicating Science and Research—through Puppets

May 16, 2023

Commencement 2023

CGS’ Stephanie Byttebier Wins a 2023 Metcalf Award

May 16, 2023

Photo: CAS professor Joanna Davidson, a white woman with short, curly brown and wearing a blue mosaic-themed blouse and black long-sleeved top smiles and poses with arms clasped behind her back. A blurry outdoor BU building can be seen behind her.

Commencement 2023

CAS’ Joanna Davidson a 2023 Metcalf Award Winner

May 15, 2023

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Faculty

Stephen Prothero Delivers a Deeply Personal, Final BU Lecture

May 8, 2023

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Theatre

Wheelock Family Theatre’s Matilda, the Musical Nominated for Four Elliot Norton Awards

May 5, 2023

Photo: Engineering Professor, Dr. Ji-Xin Cheng, an Asian man wearing a grey pullover sweater, poses for a photo in his lab. A blue light gives the photo a cool-themed feel as Cheng looks to the left and stands in front of a table full of various mechanical engineering equipment.

Innovator of the Year

Ji-Xin Cheng Is BU’s 2022 Innovator of the Year

May 1, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Where’s Antiracism in the BU Hub?

April 28, 2023

Photo: Grace S. Kim (left), a woman with shoulder length brown hair and wearing glasses, a black blouse, and beige cardigan smiles and holds up a large framed printed award. Renato Mancuso (right), a white man with brown hair wearing glasses, a lavender collared shirt and black blazer smiles as he holds up a large framed printed award.

Accolades

BU Teaching Awards Honor Two Outstanding Educators

April 27, 2023

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New Appointment

Wheelock’s Melissa Holt to Lead Kilachand Honors College

April 25, 2023

Photo: Abdulrazak Gurnah , Professor Muhammad Zaman (left) and Professor Carrie Preston sit at the front of Morse Auditorium on April 24, 2023. (from left) a tan man wearing a light blue collared shirt and navy blue suit looks and writes on sheets of paper, a Black man with white hair and a gray trimmed beard wearing a light blue collared shirt, blue blazer, and dark grey pants is turned to his right as he talks and gesticulates to a white woman wearing a red blazer, black dress, and black tights. They all sit in black chairs in front of a white background. A small table is at the center of them holding small plastic cups of water.

Arts & Culture

Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Speaks of Migrants and Memory—and That Call from Sweden

April 25, 2023

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Promotions

24 Charles River Campus Faculty Promoted to Full Professor

April 24, 2023

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Academics

CAS Writing Program Offers New Social Justice Emphasis

April 21, 2023

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Philosophy of Geoscience

Are We Really in a Sixth Mass Extinction?

April 10, 2023

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Government & Law

Is Trump’s Indictment Good for Democracy?

March 31, 2023

Tributes

Remembering SPH’s Joseph Massaro, CAS’ Gustav Fritz Papanek and Merlin L. Swartz

March 27, 2023

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Arts & Culture

BU Historian Kathryn Lamontagne on King Charles’ Coronation

March 27, 2023

Photo: To the far left, Andrew Reid Bell, a white man wearing a green cap, looks on as a small group of dark-skinned Black women and men look to tablets on a multi-colored, checkered long table. They are in a small wooden dwelling with an open doorway and cross-patterned open windows letting light in.

Conservation

How Do We Make Farming Better for the Planet? Ask Women

March 16, 2023

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Environmental Health

Skiers and Snowboarders Could Be Exposing Themselves to Harmful “Forever Chemicals” Without Realizing

March 14, 2023

9/21/22 -- Boston, MA Melisa Osborne leads a multi-disciplinary CAS class taking a look at the racism implicit in science and healthcare and trying to unpack it. Photo by Cydney Scott

Education

New Fellowship Program Aims to Bring Antiracism into BU Curricula

March 10, 2023

Photo: Professor Amy Appleford leads an ENG 101 Encounters class at the Center for Computing & Data Science. A white woman with brown hair and wearing a black long sleeved top and pants, laughs and looks to the right as she holds a stack of handouts. She stands in front of a bright classroom as student sit in seats in front of her and turn to look at her.

Academics

Medieval Meets Contemporary in New English 101 Class

March 9, 2023

Medieval Meets Contemporary in New English 101 Class