Category: Great Personalities

Getting to know: Prof. Nathan Phillips

October 5, 2010 at 4:42 pm

The Core takes pride in the people who help keep the program running. One of those people is Professor Nathan Phillips, a course coordinator for CC106: Biodiversity.  As part of an ongoing series on going green, BU Today offers a look into his almost completely off-the-grid lifestyle: Nathan Phillips, a College of Arts & Sciences […]

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Tabatabai to read at Persian autumn celebration

October 5, 2010 at 9:42 am

Our own Prof. Sassan Tabatabai will be reading works from the Persian canon as well as his own poetry, at a celebration of Mehregan, a Persian harvest celebration, to be held this Thursday, October 7th. As many Core folks may already know, Prof. Tabatabai is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in a […]

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Recollections of Elie Wiesel

September 29, 2010 at 10:34 am

Prof. Elie Wiesel has always played a central role in our fall series of lectures for CC101 students, as a scholar, certainly, but also as a representative of a tradition of conscience and wisdom that we are fortunate to benefit from in our community and our world. As I was listening to him speak once […]

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An interview with David Ferry, Part 2

September 9, 2010 at 10:50 am

To inaugurate the launch of the Core blog, Prof. David Eckel—Director of the Core Curriculum—conducted an interview with respected author and translator David Ferry, whose poetic rendering of Gilgamesh is the first book read by students in Core Humanities. This is the second half of that interview. [… in continuation of the interview from yesterday’s […]

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An interview with David Ferry, Part 1

September 8, 2010 at 12:00 pm

To inaugurate the launch of the Core blog, Prof. David Eckel—Director of the Core Curriculum—conducted an interview with respected author and translator David Ferry, whose poetic rendering of Gilgamesh is the first book read by students in Core Humanities. What follows is the first half of that interview; the second half will be posted tomorrow. […]

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