NSF awards $20.1 million for new interdisciplinary science of learning center
By Tim Stoddard
Last week the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Grossberg a five-year, $20.1 million grant to launch the Center for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology (CELEST) at BU.
Boundaries between poetry and painting doubly crossed
By Brian Fitzgerald
Comparisons between poetry and painting go back a long way. “Ut pictura poesis (As is painting, so is poetry),” wrote Latin lyric poet Horace (65-8 b.c.) in his epistle Ars Poetica.
Stymied writers launch own culture magazine
By Danielle Masterson
“The mission of this magazine is to be a career launchpad for new writers, authors, and critics,” says Feit, who founded Citizen Culture with Evan Sanders (CAS’03) and recent Harvard graduate Irfan Shabeer. “When we did some market research, we realized there was nothing like that out there.”
Spies who came in from the Cold War brought exceptional documents
By Brian Fitzgerald
On a recent Monday evening, students were able to step out of their weekday routines and into a shadowy world of intrigue and secrets, of cloak-and-dagger activity, covert operations, propaganda, and forged documents.
New vice president for marketing and communications
The University announced on October 4 the appointment of Stephen P. Burgay as vice president for marketing and communications.
He that is without sin — cast a rolling stone
By Jessica Ullian
In 1965, Bob Dylan posed a question that has been asked thousands of times since and will be asked thousands of times more:
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
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