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Social Sciences

Portrait of Jade La Rochelle, Natalie Petrone, and Emily Briggs next to a brick wall.

Social Sciences

Occupational Justice

August 6, 2019

Jobs

What Makes Employees Happy?

June 28, 2019

Portrait of Adelaide Cromwell in her office.

Tributes

Adelaide Cromwell (Hon.’95), Founder of BU’s African American Studies Program, Dies at 99

June 20, 2019

Stack of books on a table in a prison

Public Safety

Behind Bars. And Graduating from BU

May 15, 2019

Composite image showing several open browswer windows displaying news websites such as New York Times, CNN, and The Guardian

Computer Science

A Better Way to Predict Election Outcomes

November 6, 2018

Political scientists Maxwell Palmer (from left), David Glick, and Katherine Levine Einstein say big-city mayors shun higher office because of its hard-edged partisanship. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Social Sciences

Why Some Politicians Shun Promotions

August 1, 2018

Illustration of the lack of women's voices in media

Neuroscience

Extra! Extra! More Women Profs Will Be Quoted by Media!

July 20, 2018

Photo: Student researcher Elizabeth Hannigan, a white woman with long red hair tied into a braid and wearing a black tee shirt and jeans, poses at an archaeological site.

Humanities

Examining a Woman’s Role—1,300 Years Ago

July 5, 2018

Vivien Schmidt

Accolades

Pardee’s Vivien Schmidt Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

June 15, 2018

Social Sciences

Scholar of Religion Nancy Ammerman to Retire

April 25, 2018

Archaeology

Office Artifacts: John Marston

January 24, 2018

Yanomami women's leaders Floriza da Cruz Pinto and Maria de Jesus Lima, speak at BU Hillel about struggles over indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Pardee School of Global Studies

Yanomami Women Speak of Amazon Struggles

December 19, 2017

A cartoon depicting two females, one in a burka an one in a bikini, judging each other for the amount of skin that is covered or uncovered.

Academics

Sexism in the Harvey Weinstein Era

November 27, 2017

Tommy Leung and Nathan Perkins (MED’18)

Data Science

Count Love Project Reveals Protest Patterns

November 15, 2017

massachusetts map

Social Sciences

Mapping Mass Incarceration

November 6, 2017

1) Fallou Ngom, a CAS professor of anthropology and director of the African Studies Center, with Amadou Ndiaye, an Ajami and Arabic bookseller in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Photo courtesy of Ablaye Diakité

Humanities

Libraries and Archives Meet the Digital Age

October 5, 2017

Social Sciences

K-pop Star Kim Na Yoon Puts Career on Hold for BU

April 25, 2017

As principal investigators on a yearlong Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant, Juliet Floyd, a CAS professor of philosophy, and James E. Katz, a COM professor of emerging media, will bring together humanists, social scientists, computer scientists, and experts on big data to discuss humans, values, and society in transition.

Marketing & Communications

The Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media

April 24, 2017

Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady eats a turkey leg

Academics

One Class, One Day: Are You Man Enough? (And What Does That Mean?)

April 19, 2017

Arctic Ground Squirrel

Archaeology

Arctic Squirrels: Invasive or Native Species?

February 22, 2017

Arctic Squirrels: Invasive or Native Species?