Ethan Baxter has spent his career studying the geological processes that affect the evolution of the Earth’s crust and the crust’s interactions with the mantle and surface. The lectures, funded by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), emphasized processes that occur over long periods of geologic time.
The Minor in Sustainable Energy allows a student in any four-year undergraduate School or College to complete a coherent suite of classes that reveals the interdisciplinary nature of energy studies.
Contributing to the festivities of Alumni Weekend 2012, a number of CAS departments offered special programs and presentations for returning alumni and friends.
A brief window of opportunity exists to shape the development of cities globally before a boom in infrastructure construction transforms urban land cover, according to researchers at Boston University, Yale, and Texas A & M.
As much as 5 to 10 percent of material in a permanently shadowed lunar crater could be patchy ice, according to the team of researchers led by Bradley Thomson at Boston University’s Center for Remote Sensing.
Physics major Kelsey Bilsback, an intern at the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, finds herself among physicists from around the world flying high after CERN’s confirmation July 4 of evidence of a new subatomic particle that could dramatically advance our understanding of the universe.
The MacArthur Foundation recently approved a $500,000 grant to a group of BU researchers to “support improving the scientific understanding of water and fisheries resource use in the Tonle Sap region” of Cambodia.
In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists including CAS’ William Saturno have uncovered the only known mural in an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it’s not just any mural.
On March 5 and 6, 2012, International Relations and Political Science faculty took part in an international conference on human security at BU. The focus was on human rights and security issues and the ways in which rights are seen as a legitimate part of the security discourse.
The Qatar Foundation International (QFI) has awarded the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature $75,000 to help fund graduate fellowships.