Fall 2012 Features
a&s Insider
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The Play’s the Thing
Elliot Norton award winner Kate Snodgrass directs a new MFA program in playwriting.
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Plagued Paree
Historian Brooke L. Blower portrays Americans in Paris between the world wars.
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Hamlet’s Arab Journey
Assistant Professor Margaret Litvin traces the evolution of Hamlet performances across the Middle East.
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Runaway Sisters
Professor of French Elizabeth Goldsmith tells tales of notorious seventeenth-century sisters.
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Famed Faculty
For research on the origins of the universe and beyond, five CAS faculty win awards.
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At the Microscopic Level
With exchange funding from Banco Santander, BU researchers are probing the amazing properties of graphene.
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The Benefit of Benefits
Economist Johannes Schmieder makes the case for extending unemployment benefits.
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Applying the Fundamentals
In search of the Higgs boson, Lina Necib (CAS’12) interned with a BU team at CERN.
About Alumni
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With a Big Purpose in Mind
Bonnie T. Feld (CAS’73) heads Arts & Sciences fund drive.
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Meet Our Ambassadors
From Mali to Belgium, CAS/GRS alums practice diplomacy around the world.
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The Last Word
Comedy’s New King
Noah Britton (CAS’05) and a new kind of comedy troupe, Asperger’s Are Us.
150 new professors have joined the ranks of the Arts & Sciences faculty in recent years. Read about some of their groundbreaking contributions in this issue.
From the Dean
Marking her fifth anniversary at CAS/GRS, Dean Virginia Sapiro points to an expanded faculty and new student opportunities.
Class Notes
Whatever you’ve been up to, we’d like to hear about it. Send us an email with your stories or photos, and we’ll share them in class notes.