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Faculty

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

University News

Full Professorships Awarded to 17 Faculty

March 1, 2013

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

Politics

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

Religion

The Next Pope? (Read It Here First)

February 26, 2013

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

Astronomy

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

University News

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

Gender Studies

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

Research

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

Schools and Colleges

New SHA Dean Comes from Penn State

January 17, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program, Jennifer Schlezinger, toxic contaminants research, 11 million dollar award

Research

SPH Superfund Program Secures $11 Million from NIH

January 11, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Communication COM, assistant professor film and television Garland Waller, filmmaker producer No Way Out but One, family court documentary, Small Justice: Little Justice in Americas Family Courts, documentary channel

Film

Examining America’s Family Courts

January 8, 2013

Boston University BU, faculty associate professor Kimberly Howard, School of Education SED, literacy and language, career development.

Science & Technology

When I Grow Up

January 7, 2013

Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Newtown Connecticut School Shooting, United States Mass Shootings

Politics

CAS Prof on Why Gun Control Won’t Happen, Again

December 17, 2012

Boston University BU, nobel laureate Elie Wiesel interview, new novel memoir, Open Heart, Hostage

Literature

Nobel Laureate Wiesel on His New Novel, Memoir

December 10, 2012

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS professor Nathan Philips research, urban pipeline leaks, methan leaks Boston,

Faculty

Boston’s Street-Level Gas Leaks: 3,300-Plus

December 7, 2012

David Liebesman, Paul Katsafanas, 2011 Philosopher's Annual top 10 philosophy articles, assistant professors of philosophy, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences CAS

Accolades

Two Philosophy Profs Receive Major Honor

December 7, 2012

James Katz, Director, Division of Emerging Media Studies, Boston University BU College of Communication COM

University News

New Face at COM Focuses on New Media

December 4, 2012

Boston University BU, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy CTE, Largest study chronic traumatic encephalopathy, research maps dementia, Ann McKee School of Medicine

Science & Technology

BU-Led Research Maps the Route to Dementia

December 3, 2012

BU-Led Research Maps the Route to Dementia