Boston University

Faculty

Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, presidential debate 2012

Faculty

Obama vs. Romney: Which One Will Keep Us Safe?

October 22, 2012

Earth

Mushrooming Metropolises

October 19, 2012

Boston University Synthetic Biology research and engineering, Professor James Collins, Collins Lab

Health & Medicine

ENG’s Collins Elected to Institute of Medicine

October 16, 2012

Three Encounters with Elie Wiesel The Fascination with Jewish Tales annual lecture series, Boston University Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor, author

University News

Annual Elie Wiesel Lecture Series Begins Tonight

October 15, 2012

Vice Presidential debates, Joseph Biden, Paul Ryan, campaign 2012

Faculty

The Debates: Time for the VPs

October 11, 2012

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

CAMED

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

Staff

SHA Dean to Step Down

September 25, 2012

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

Faculty

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

Faculty

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

Literature

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

Books

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

Law

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

Research

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

Faculty

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

Science & Technology

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

Books

Memoirs of a Rugby-Playing Man

June 1, 2012

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

Faculty

Farnsworth New Dean of University of Texas School of Law

May 31, 2012

Farnsworth New Dean of University of Texas School of Law