- Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich is a former US Army Colonel and is now a Professor of International Relations at Boston University. He says that a dangerous obsession has taken hold of Americans; it's a marriage of idealism and awesome military strength, and this has led to the belief that the military is the short and simple solution to the World's problems. His book is called "The New American Militarism, How Americans are seduced by War".
- Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of the bestseller, "A People's History of the United States". Zinn's philosophy incorporates ideas from Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy. Since the 1960s, he has been active in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States.
- John Silber
John Robert Silber (born August 15, 1926) is the controversial former president of Boston University and unsuccessful conservative Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts in the 1990 election. He was born in San Antonio, Texas and is the author of one book, part memoir and part political prescription.
- Jack Parker
Jack Parker (born March 11, 1945 in Somerville, Massachusetts) is the current head coach of the Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey team. The 2006-2007 hockey season is Parker's 34th season as head coach of the Terriers.
- Laurence Kotlikoff
Laurence J. Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University. He is a leading scholar on the generational accounting of social security. He has written that the economic future is bleak for the United States without tax reform, health care reform, and Social Security reform. Kotlikoff is a supporter of the FairTax proposal, contributing to research of plan's effects and the required rate for revenue neutrality.
- Stephen Prothero
Stephen Prothero is the Chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University and the author of numerous books, most recently "Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn't" and "American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon". He has commented on religion on dozens of National Public Radio programs and on television on CNN, NBC, FOX, PBS, MSNBC and Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart".
- Husain Haqqani
Husain Haqqani is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. He is a syndicated columnist for The Indian Express and The Nation (of Pakistan) and serves as chairman of Communications Research Strategies, a Pakistani consulting company. Mr. Haqqani's journalism career includes work as East Asian correspondent for Arabia - The Islamic World Review and Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review .
- Isaac Asimov
Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920- April 6, 1992, was a Russian-born American Jewish author and biochemist, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series, which was part of one of his two major series, the Galactic Empire Series, later merged with his other famous story arc, the Robot series.
- Cutler J. Cleveland
Cutler J. Cleveland is Professor of Geography and Environment at Boston University, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Before becoming a high profile scholar, Dr. Cleveland had a very successful career as an exotic dancer. Dr. Cleveland is now the editor-in-chief of the "Encyclopedia of Energy" (Elsevier, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, the "Dictionary of Energy" (Elsevier, 2005), …
- Farouk El-Baz
Dr. Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American scientist who worked with NASA to assist in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, including the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography. Currently, Dr. El-Baz is Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, Boston MA, U.S.A. He is Adjunct Professor of Geology at the Faculty of Science, …
- Zvi Bodie
Zvi Bodie is the Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has served on the finance faculty at the Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Professor Bodie has published widely on pension finance and investment strategy in leading professional journals. His books include "Foundations of Pension Finance", "Pensions in the U.S. Economy", …
- Randy Barnett
Randy E. Barnett (born February 5, 1952) is a lawyer, a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and a legal theorist in the United States. He writes about the libertarian theory of law and contract theory, constitutional law, and jurisprudence. After attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Barnett worked as a prosecutor in Chicago, Illinois.
- Richard Landes
Richard A. Landes is an American historian and author. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boston University. Landes is the co-founder and director of the Center for Millennial Studies. Landes is a medieval historian specializing in Millennialism. In September 2005, Landes launched the website seconddraft.org in response to a perceived pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli bias in some media reports from the Middle East.
- Dennis Wolff
Dennis Wolff (born March 1, 1955 in New York City) is the head coach of men's basketball at Boston University. Wolff finished his collegiate basketball career at UConn after playing two years at LSU. He became the head coach at Boston University following the 1993-1994 season, taking over for Bob Brown. He was previously the head coach at Connecticut College, where he coached from 1980 to 1982. In between his head coaching jobs, Wolff was an assistant at St. Bonaventure, …
- Stephen Grossberg
Stephen Grossberg is a cognitive scientist, mathematician, and head of the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University. With his wife Gail Carpenter, he developed the adaptive resonance theory of neural architecture. The ART theory was practically demonstrated through the ART family of classifiers, and was itself based on his insights in neuroscience and behaviour, …
- Robert A. Brown
Robert A. Brown , a distinguished scholar of chemical engineering and an innovative leader in higher education, became the tenth president of Boston University in September 2005. A Texas native, Dr. Brown, 57, earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, where he worked under the guidance of Professor L.E. Scriven.
- Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed Canadian-born American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988. Bellow is best known for writing novels that investigate isolation, spiritual dissociation, and the possibilities of human awakening. Bellow drew inspiration from Chicago, his adopted city, …
- Howard Thurman
Howard Thurman (born 1900 in Daytona Beach, Florida - April 10, 1981 in Daytona Beach, Florida) was an author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. In 1923, Howard Thurman graduated from Morehouse College as valedictorian. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1925, after completing his study at the Colgate Rochester Theological Seminary (now Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School).
- Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, "The Bell Jar", under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, detailing her struggle with depression. Along with Anne Sexton, Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry that Robert Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass initiated.
- Mike Jarvis
Mike Jarvis is a sports commentator and former NCAA basketball coach at Boston University, George Washington University, and St. John's University. He also works as a commentator for college basketball games on ESPN. His career college coaching record in over 18 seasons is 364-201 and is one of four Division I coaches to have won 100 games at three different colleges.
- Derek Walcott
Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Born in Castries, St. Lucia, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. His work, which developed independently of the schools of magic realism emerging in both South America and Europe at around the time of his birth, is intensely related to the symbolism of myth and its relationship to culture.
- Chris Higgins
Christopher 'Chris' Higgins (born April 30, 1986 in Lynnfield, Massachusetts) is an amateur ice hockey player who currently plays for Boston University of Hockey East and the NCAA.
- Ha Jin
Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China in 1956. His father was a military officer, and Jin joined the People's Liberation Army in 1969 during the Cultural Revolution. In 1981 he graduated from Heilongjiang University with a Bachelor's degree in English studies, and three years later obtained his Masters in Anglo-American literature at Shandong University.
- James Collins
James J. Collins, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is one of the founders of the emerging field of synthetic biology, and a pioneering researcher in systems biology, stochastic resonance, biological dynamics and neurostimulation. Collins has invented a number of novel devices and techniques, including vibrating insoles for enhancing balance, bistable genetic toggle switches for biotechnology and bioenergy applications, …
- Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917-September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, was an influential American poet of the mid-20th century, perhaps best known for "Life Studies", a classic of confessional poetry, and the poem "For the Union Dead." He is generally considered to be among the greatest American poets of the twentieth century.
- Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27 1959 in Yamhill, Oregon) is an American political scientist, author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist specializing in East Asia. He is currently a columnist for "The New York Times" and previously served as the as The New York Times' Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He has written a number of books on Asia, …
- Travis Roy
Travis Roy (b. 17 April 1975 in Yarmouth, Maine) is a former college hockey player. He graduated from Tabor Academy and received a hockey scholarship to Boston University. On 20 October 1995 - just 11 seconds into his first-ever shift for Boston University - he ran head-first into the boards after an opposing player avoided his check, cracking his fourth vertebra and leaving him a quadriplegic. Roy and "Sports Illustrated" writer E.M. Swift wrote his autobiography, …
- Ryan Whitney
Ryan Whitney (Born on February 19, 1983 in Scituate, Massachusetts) is a defenseman currently playing for the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins. Whitney enrolled at Thayer Academy in the fall of 1998. Almost immediately he logged significant minutes on the blueline. Head coach Jack Foley often paired the 15 year old freshman with highly touted senior Brooks Orpik. The two are currently teammates in the NHL.
- Aram Chobanian
Dr. Chobanian founded the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute in 1973 and oversaw its rapid growth for over 20 years. He is a scientist who has worked on the basic and clinical aspects of cardiovascular disease with particular emphasis on high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis, and he was involved in the introduction of new treatments for hypertension.
- John Walker
John Walker (born 1939) is an English painter and printmaker. Walker studied in Birmingham. Some of his early work was inspired by abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction, and often combined apparently three-dimensional shapes with "flatter" elements. These pieces are usually rendered in acrylic paint. Around the early 1970s, Walker made a series of large "Blackboard Pieces" using chalk and the "Juggernaut" works which also use dry pigment.
- Paula Fredriksen
Paula Fredriksen is a historian and a scholar of religious studies. She holds the position of William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University. She has a Ph.D. in the history of religion from Princeton University and a theology diploma from Oxford University. Fredriksen is a scholar of the historical Jesus. While skeptical of much of the Gospel accounts, …
- Don Share
Don Share is a poet, editor, and teacher. This summer he will become Senior Editor of "Poetry" magazine in Chicago. Share has been Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University since 2000.
- Karl Hobbs
Karl Hobbs is the head coach of the George Washington University Colonials men's basketball team. He has won two Atlantic 10 Conference championships, and has led the Colonials to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Hobbs is known for his high-energy, frenetic coaching style. He often spends entire games pacing up and down the sidelines yelling and whistling to his players.
- Glenn Loury
Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Brown University. He has taught previously at Boston, Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and the University of Michigan. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics (Northwestern University) and a Ph.D. in Economics (MIT). In addition to this scholarly work, Professor Loury is also a prominent social criticand public intellectual.
- Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician from Texas. She served as a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979.
- Robert Dallek
Robert Dallek, born May 16 1934, is a prominent American historian with a specialism of American Presidents. He is a Professor of History at Boston University and has previously taught at Columbia University, UCLA and Oxford. He has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching.
- Lukas Foss
BPO Music Director: 1963-71 As a fifteen-year-old prodigy Lukas Foss arrived in America in 1937 where he enrolled at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. By that time he had already been composing for eight years, with lessons in his native Berlin with his first piano teacher, Julius Herford . After his family fled Nazi Germany in 1933 Foss studied in Paris with Lazare Levy , Noel Gallon and Felix Wolfes , and advanced flute with Louis Moyse .
- Christopher Ricks
Christopher Ricks (born 1933) is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University (USA) and Co-Director of the Editorial Insitute at Boston University, and since 2004 Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (England). He was born in Beckenham and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first in English. He served in the Green Howards in the British Army in 1953/4 in Egypt.
- Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg (born February 14 1947) is a former Governor of New Hampshire and current United States Senator serving as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was a businessman and attorney in Nashua before entering politics.
- Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation.