Boston University

Faculty

Boston University BU, College of Engineering ENG, Materials Science and Engineering, Alfred P Sloan fellow Ramesh Jasti, carbon research

Research

CAS Faculty Member Wins Sloan Fellowship

April 1, 2013

Ian Sue Wing, Johannes Schmieder, Richard Murray, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Department of Earth and Environment, human induced climate change, economic growth, mitigating climate change, carbon dioxide stabilization policy, environmental policy, environmental economics, carbon dioxide CO2 emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, global warming

Climate Change

The Climate Crisis: Your Job or Your Planet?

March 29, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Communication COM, Power of Narrative: Storytelling Journalism Goes Digital, Pulitzer prize winner Tracy Kidder, faculty, Dick Lehr, coauthor of Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss and a former Boston Globe investigative reporter; Nick Mills, Neil Shea, Ellen Ruppel Shell, Mitchell Zuckoff, journalism

Social Media

Pulitzer Winner Tracy Kidder to Headline COM’s Narrative Conference

March 29, 2013

Dr. Cutler Cleveland, renewable energy, sustainable energy development, energy transitions, fossil fuels, Boston University climate change research, human induced climate change, global warming, carbon dioxide emissions, CO2 emissions, greenhouse gas emissions

Sustainability

The Climate Crisis: Breaking the Fossil Fuel Habit

March 28, 2013

Boston University BU, London Times Higher Education ranking

Schools and Colleges

London Raters: BU among the World’s Best

March 27, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Education SED, Dean Hardin Coleman, Boston School Committee, desegregation, school assignment plan

Boston

Boston School Assignment Plan Marks New Era

March 26, 2013

Bruce Anderson, climate change research, global ocean warming, causes of climate change global warming, human caused climate change global warming, climate change hypotheses hypothesis

Climate Change

The Climate Crisis: Why the Earth Is Warming

March 25, 2013

Boston University Medical Campus BUMC, School of Public Health SPH, School of Medicine MED, School of Dental Medicine SDM

Faculty

Medical Campus Faculty Promoted to Full Professor

March 25, 2013

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 266th pope in history, Pope Francis, catholic church

Religion

Taking the Measure of Pope Francis

March 21, 2013

Boston University BU, return on investment, endowment, President Robert Brown

Awards

Full Professorships Awarded to 17 Faculty

March 1, 2013

Rwanda Genocide, Timothy Longman, director Boston University African Studies Center, Rwanda war crimes expert witness

Faculty

CAS Prof a Valued Witness in Rwanda Trials

March 1, 2013

Jeffrey Rubin, Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, Jeffrey Rubin, Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, Sustaining Activism; A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration

Books

Chronicling Brazilian Women’s Struggle for Equal Rights

February 28, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI

Faculty

The Next Pope? (Read It Here First)

February 26, 2013

Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), brick, stars

Faculty

Where Stars Come From

February 19, 2013

The Feminine Mystique book by author Betty Friedan, 50th anniversary of Feminine Mystique

Faculty

Friedan’s Feminine Mystique Turns 50

February 12, 2013

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Literature

Machiavelli’s The Prince: Still Relevant after All These Years

February 6, 2013

Carrie Preston, associate professor of English, Boston University, Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance book, Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and the Pedagogies of Transnational Performance book

Arts & Culture

Linking the Ivory Tower with the Street

January 29, 2013

Boston University BU, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences GRS, Gail Carpenter, professor of cognitive and neural systems and mathematics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow IEEE

Accolades

Gail Carpenter Named IEEE Fellow

January 29, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, biology, Richard Primack, flowers bloom Walden Pond, climate change evidence

Research

Early Spring Flowering Sets Record

January 25, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Hospitality Administration SHA, Dean Arun Upneja

Staff

New SHA Dean Comes from Penn State

January 17, 2013

New SHA Dean Comes from Penn State