Nature as Teacher
The way organisms respond to shifts in their environments may hold clues for human resilience in the face of our own crises
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Big Picture
Chuanfei Dong is looking to the stars to try to answer one of astronomers’ most vexing questions.
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Street Smart
Darien Pollock studies what he calls street knowledge—a philosophy developed not within academia but by lived experience.
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Rewriting the Histories of Enslaved People
Andreana Cunningham combines bioarchaeology, African diaspora studies, and archival research to better understand the lives of enslaved people
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A Spark of Creativity in the Social Sciences
Three years in, the Center for Innovation in Social Science is building a legacy of interdisciplinary research
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An Influential Imagination
Sci-fi writer and alum Kim Stanley Robinson has spent his career creating better futures. Global power brokers have been paying attention.
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Boundless Possibilities
Eran Tromer has built a career on pinpointing security holes in information systems.
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Swapping Lab Coats for Yoga Mats
A Karbank Fellowship helped Alexa Woodrow study connections between neuroscience and philosophy
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Arts × Sciences 2024
Read the College of Arts & Sciences’ redesigned magazine as a PDF
Dean's Letter
As he embarks on his second five-year term as dean, Stan Sclaroff reflects on the work of his first term as dean.
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Results
Arts & Sciences researchers knew no limits in 2023–24. To better understand our world, they traveled to Istanbul comedy clubs, examined Ukraine’s economy, and, miraculously, looked eight billion years into the past.
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AI Ushers In a New Era for Writing Classes
Pary Fassihi believes AI tools can help students think more deeply about their writing.
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Tolstoy, from BU’s Top Teacher
Yuri Corrigan is breaking the ice on Tolstoy by getting students to engage and relate to the themes before they open the book.
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New Hires
Meet some of the newest Arts & Sciences faculty.
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More News
This year, our faculty were celebrated with awards and honors for their work and achievements.
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Real Data, Real Experience
Students in the Master of Science in Statistical Practice learn on the job with MSSP Consulting.
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Arts x Sciences + Graduation = ?
Each year, BU’s Center for Career Development conducts a First Destination Survey of the graduating class. The results show the varied paths that recent graduates are taking after they accept their degrees. Here are some highlights from the Class of 2023.
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The Big Question
How can we fix immigration in the United States? We asked three faculty members from different academic disciplines to answer.