September 17, 2013 at 10:00 am
(Core ’05, CAS ’07) Years at Boston University: 4 years Current location: Medford, MA (but works in Cambridge) Company and Title: “I’m currently a PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. I’m also affiliated with the Department of Herpetology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.” Recent activities: “I recently ran two legs […]
September 16, 2013 at 11:42 pm
(Core ’06, CAS ’08) Years at Boston University: from 2004-2008 (double major in Linguistics and Classics, minor in French). Current location: Strasbourg, France. Company and Title: Freeman Financial Translation. Recent activities: Doug writes: I work at a small, client-focused language services firm specialising in corporate communications. My main duties there involve translation, document review and project […]
September 16, 2013 at 10:24 pm
We asked our Core Alumni what succinct advice they could offer to new Core students as strategies for success in CC101. Here are some highlights: A wise man, Brian Jorgensen, once said, “Read the books, go to class.” I remember those words at my first CC101 lecture in Fall 1996. ~ Kim Santo (Core 1998, CAS/SED […]
September 12, 2013 at 1:22 am
Core alumna Martha Muñoz has recently been involved in some very interesting evolutionary research! Here the Core has laid out some of the information Martha provides on her own page: I am studying how behavior can simultaneously impede and impel evolution in different traits in the lizard, Anolis cybotes, a species that ranges from sea level […]
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September 8, 2013 at 1:32 pm
(Core ’98, CAS ’00) Years at Boston University: 4 years. Current location: Boston, MA, USA. Company and Title: Vice President at Goldman Sachs. Recent Activity: Benjamin writes: Two young kids and a rewarding job. Married to my BU girlfriend. What more could I ask for? Benefits of the Core: Benjamin writes: Core helps me look at the […]
August 14, 2013 at 2:08 pm
EnCore book club members met this month to discuss Salman Rushdie’s novel Shame (click on the link to read the Goodreads summary). The discussion got off to a slow start, considering many members attending had either not read the book, or had not finished it. Such a situation has never deterred book club attendees, and […]
This month, EnCore’s book club delved into Things Fall Apart, by the renowned and recently deceased Nigerian scholar Chinua Achebe. As described on the back of the paperback 50th Anniversary Edition from Anchor Books, the novel “tells two intertwining stories, both centered on Okonkwo, a ‘strong man’ of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, […]