
BU Honors Distinguished Service of Three Employees
Winners of this year’s John S. Perkins Awards named

Roberta Micallef to Serve as Interim Director of MENA Program
Roberta Micallef, Associate Professor of the Practice in Turkish at the Department of Modern Language and Comparative Literature in the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as the Interim Director of the Middle East and North Africa Studies Program at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies for 2015-16.

NYT’s Kristof: Changing Lives through Early Intervention
Improving health by focusing on first 1,000 days

Picking Up the Pieces
SPH dean on the aftermath of mass trauma in light of Nepal tragedy

Boston academics weigh motives, meaning of Islamic State
As part of a new digital scholarship initiative on Islamic studies, the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University hosted an interdisciplinary panel discussion on the Islamic State on Thursday in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. The panel featured representatives from various departments at BU as well as professors from Harvard University, Tufts University, Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Lowell.