Boston University

Faculty

Boston University School of Medicine BUSM, ACE grant award, Medical faculty work-life balance

Faculty

MED Wins ACE Award

October 5, 2012

Carl Yastrzemski, Yaz, Boston Red Sox, meaning of a sports hero, baseball triple crown

Robert Pinsky

The Triple Crown, and the Path That Leads to It

October 5, 2012

Christopher Muller, Boston University School of Hospitality SHA

University News

SHA Dean to Step Down

September 25, 2012

Boston University BU faculty, Peter Paul Awards: Cara Stepp, Kathleen Corriveau, James Uden, Valentina Perissi

Research

Four Young Scholars Named Peter Paul Professors

September 20, 2012

Boston University BU Office of the Provost, Elizabeth Loizeaux, associate provost undergraduate affairs, Timothy Barbari, associate provost graduate affairs

Engineering

Two New Associate Provosts Named

September 7, 2012

The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin by Elizabeth Goldsmith, College of Arts & Sciences CAS professor

Arts & Culture

17th-Century Sisters the Kardashians Might Admire

August 27, 2012

Sin the early history of an idea by Paula Fredriksen, Christian views on original sin

Faculty

Evolving Ideas of Sin

August 6, 2012

Boston University Department of Archaeology, Twenty thousand 20,000 year old pottery, Xianrendong Cave, China, world's oldest known pottery

Research

A Prehistoric Pottery Barn

August 2, 2012

Jack Beermann, Boston Univeristy BU, School of Law LAW professor, Harry Elwood Warren Scholar, political rulemaking, presidential rules end of term

Faculty

When Presidents Make Rules Heading Out the Door

August 1, 2012

Muhammad Zaman, Boston University BU, assistant professor, College of Engineering, anti-malaria drugs, antimalarial drugs, PharmaCheck device, pharmacheck device

Medicine

A New Counterfeit Problem: Anti-Malaria Drugs

July 26, 2012

JPMorgan Chase, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, too big to fail banks, high risk investment trading, global economic recession and financial crisis

Business & Law

How Does a Bank Lose $5.8 Billion?

July 24, 2012

Stephen Prothero author of The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation book

Books

In Arguing We Trust

June 28, 2012

Boston, IBM Smarter Cities grant, global warming, climate change, greenhouse gas emission

Research

Gridlock and Global Warming in BU’s Sights

June 7, 2012

Jay Atkinson author, Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man: Guts, Glory and Blood in the World’s Greatest Game, Ice Time, Legends of Winter Hill book

Arts & Culture

Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man

June 1, 2012

Ward Farnsworth, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Boston University School of Law

University News

Farnsworth New Dean of University of Texas School of Law

May 31, 2012

Predicting solar storms, W. Jeffrey Hughes, Boston University Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling

Research

Detecting the Perfect Solar Storm

May 25, 2012

James A. Winn, James C. McCann, Boston University Humanities, Guggenheim Fellowship

Awards

Two Guggenheims Will Fuel Humanities Research

May 25, 2012

Jim Collins, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston University William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering

University News

Jim Collins Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 24, 2012

Kate Snodgrass, 2012 Elliot Norton Award Prize for Sustained Excellence in Theatre, Theater

Arts & Culture

Elliot Norton Award to Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Director

May 23, 2012

Boston University Robert Knox Professorship, Robert and Jeanne Knox Foundation, Jonathan Simon, Director, Boston University Center for Global Health and Development CGHD

Campaign

$2.5 Million Endows Robert A. Knox Professorship

May 23, 2012

$2.5 Million Endows Robert A. Knox Professorship