A Video Series from BU Arts & Sciences

Watch BU Arts & Sciences faculty discuss exciting new research findings and how that research came about—from the initial spark to the process of discovery and creating knowledge.

Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

Associate Professor of Sociology Ashley Mears explains how beautiful young women are seen as a kind of currency in an exclusive world of wealth and leisure.

Seizures in Real Time

Professors of Mathematics & Statistics Mark Kramer and Eric Kolaczyk describe their work to map epileptic seizures in real time and share their process and motivation to push our knowledge forward in this critical area.

Young Voices in Jim Crow D.C.

Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies Paula Austin takes us on a journey back nearly 100 years, to Jim Crow Washington, D.C., where black youths navigated discrimination in ways that remain all too familiar to young black people living in US cities today. Read more about Paula’s research in the fall issue of arts&sciences magazine.