Translating Rocket Science for the Masses
Alum Korine Powers’ career took an unexpected turn, from studying English literature to the communications office at NASA
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The Humanity Lab
For 35 years, the Core has taught some of history’s most consequential thinkers and their writings.
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A Gemologist’s Debut Novel
Alum Anna Rasche's new novel tells the story of a girl who uses gemstones to heal the sick.
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Keeping Seeds Alive
English Professor Adriana Craciun studies an Arctic archipelago where seeds are a symbol of hope.
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From Spaghetti to Structure
Didem Vardar-Ulu is teaching students to decode visual renderings of cells, proteins, and molecules.
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Illustrating an Ancient Deep-Sea Mountain
BU scientists analyzed a Pacific seamount teeming with biologically diverse corals and sea creatures.
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Four Faculty Promoted to Full Professor
Historian Brooke Blower, Computer Scientist Marco Gaboardi, Chemist Pinghua Liu, and Economist Juan Ortner have been promoted to the rank […]
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Doctoral student creates marine textbook f…
Doctoral student creates marine textbook for Central American communities
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Four CAS professors receive Guggenheim awa…
Writer Louis Chude-Sokei, astronomer Merav Opher, physicist Anders Sandvik, and historian Bruce Schulman have been honored with 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships.
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Political Science Professor named 2025 And…
Jacob Brown selected as one of 26 Carnegie Fellows for his research on political polarization.
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CAS physicists receive Breakthrough Prize…
Physics faculty are amongst 13,000 researchers celebrated for their work at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
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Computer Science faculty receive NSF early…
Computer Scientists Vasiliki Kalavri, Sabrina Neuman, Nathan Klein, and Kira Goldner have received early-career NSF awards.
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Younger receives Wellcome Discovery Award
Assistant Professor of Biology Meg Younger has received a grant to map the brain of the Aedes aegypti mosquito
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Alum inspired to fund Yitzhak Rabin lectur…
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Rabin’s death and the 20th anniversary of the Yitzhak Rabin lecture series.
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