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Watching the Mind at Work |
| Engineering faculty Malvin Teich, Bahaa Saleh, and Alexander Sergienko
have teamed up with Biology Professor Kristen Harris and Research
Assistant Professor Sergei Kirov to create a radical new kind of
microscopy. |
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Tiny Machines |
| Nanotechnology promises to shrink things beyond our current abilities. Engineering Professor Thomas Bifano, for example, has developed arrays of tiny mirrors, up to 200 of them on a chip only three millimeters across, each of them able to move independently and precisely. |
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Genetic applets:
A Switch to Cellular Computing |
| It is not coincidental that James J. Collins was named by Tech Review this year as one of the "TR-100"-100 young innovators "who will shape the future of technology." As co-director of the Center for BioDynamics (CBD) and professor of biomedical engineering he has been in the forefront of many important discoveries about how biological systems function at their most basic levels. |
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Images of DNA |
| The now familiar double helix - where G, C, A, and T bases pair off to form the regular, simple, ladderlike structure that encodes our genetic heritage - appears regularly on magazine covers and TV screens announcing almost daily breakthroughs in human genomics. |
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Pushing the limits of Art and Science |
| Boston University's Center for Computational Science (CCS) and Scientific Computing and Visualization group (SCV) have long provided national and regional leadership in parallel supercomputing, visualization, and networking. |
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Untangling the knots: Finding the underlying causes of Alzheimer's |
| Alzheimer's disease is as complex as it is devastating. Lindsay Farrer,
chief of the genetics program and a professor of medicine, neurology
and public health at Boston University's Schools of Medicine and Public
Health, is making significant contributions to understanding the
genetic underpinnings of the disease alongside other variables such as
gender, age, ethnicity, and a range of exposure and lifestyle factors. |
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Forecasting Space Weather |
| Although not yet a regular feature, space weather reports may soon join
terrestrial weather reports on the nightly news. As the sun approaches
solar maximum, a period of intense activity, huge spumes of electrified
gases and magnetic fields are periodically ejected toward Earth. |
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Seeing the Light! |
| Innovations at Boston University's Photonics Center come in many colors. Engineering professor Fred Schubert's new semiconductor light source - a photon recycling semiconductor light-emitting diode (PRS-LED) - combines two or more discrete colors to create light in a multitude of hues, including white. |
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On the Trail of the Higgs Boson |
| With the recent detection of the tau neutrino, particle physicists now
have additional impetus to hunt for the Higgs boson - the last
unobserved subatomic particle, predicted by the standard model of
elementary particle physics, and necessary to explain the origin of
mass in the universe. |
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Preserving Plant Diversity |
| Biology Professor Richard Primack's studies take him to such exotic locations as the tropical forests of Borneo, India, and Central America, but he is equally at home in the meadows, forests, and odd patches of urban land in his native New England. |
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Conserving Aquatic Biodiversity |
| An evolutionary ecologist, conservation biologist, and tropical
ichthyologist, Associate Professor of Biology Les Kaufman is working to
preserve the biological diversity of aquatic animal species and
maintain fishery resources. His work takes him to very different
aquatic environments-from East Africa's Lake Victoria to the Stellwagen
Bank off the coast of New England. |
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Exploring the Rainforest |
| Located in the midst of one of the last unexplored areas of rainforest, the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, established by the Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology in cooperation with the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, provides an extraordinary resource for research and education in biodiversity. |
