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Engineering & Computing

Photo of Lei Guo, from left, Prakash Ishwar, Derry Wijaya, and Margrit Betke in front of computer monitors.

Computer Science

What If You Could Manage Information Overload?

November 27, 2018

Portrait of Christopher Chen, Boston University Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Boston University Biological Design Center

Accolades

ENG’s Chris Chen Receives Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award

November 13, 2018

Composite image showing several open browswer windows displaying news websites such as New York Times, CNN, and The Guardian

Computer Science

A Better Way to Predict Election Outcomes

November 6, 2018

Saenko on a bench

Computer Science

Making Artificial Intelligence Intelligible

November 1, 2018

a pile of multicolored condoms

Biomedical Engineering

New Self-Lubricating Condom Would Revolutionize Safe Sex

October 18, 2018

BU biomedical engineers Ji-Xin Cheng (left) and Lu Lan (right) monitor a tablet that displays AcouStar breast cancer tumor lumpectomy guidance to surgeons.

Biomedical Engineering

Breast Cancer Beacon

October 16, 2018

Neurotechnology

NSF Grant Will Advance Study of the Cocktail Party Effect

September 28, 2018

Allyson Sgro will use her grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) 10 Big Ideas program to study how cells’ communications enable them to coordinate their behavior.

Engineering Biology

Sgro Lands NSF 10 Big Ideas Grant

September 24, 2018

Emily Ryan and a graduate students look intently at a computer screen

Mechanical Engineering

Searching for a Better Battery

September 24, 2018

Medicine

Machine Learning May Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes

September 10, 2018

illustration of a college graduate staring at his shadow which is in the shape of a dollar bill

Education

It’s Time to Tell Students What They Need to Know

August 30, 2018

Researchers at Harvard and Boston University have created a flexible, robotic soft spider that could work inside human bodies.

Engineering

Soft, Spidery Robots that Go Inside Our Bodies

August 9, 2018

John Ngo, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University

Biology

Turning Cells On and Off

July 2, 2018

Entire eVOLVER platform for growing microbes in the lab

Biomedical Engineering

A Better Way to Grow Microbes

June 19, 2018

counterfeit pills

Global Health

Fellowship Available for Study of Poor-Quality Drugs, Disease Resistance

June 14, 2018

A detailed watercolor of a bird next to the laser-etched wood panel used to print the watercolor.

Computer Science

Taking the Pain out of Painting

May 24, 2018

cluster of drug-resistant Campylobacter bacteria.

Medicine

BU-Based CARB-X Antimicrobial Partnership Gets Another $50 Million Plus

May 22, 2018

David Boas, neurophotonics and fNIRS pioneer, and director of the Boston University Neurophotonics Center

Engineering

Lighting Up the Brain

May 11, 2018

Materials Science

New Understanding of Graphene Nanochannels

May 2, 2018

From left to right, Mohit Dangeti (BME ’17, ’19), Charles Scheftic (BME ’18), Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Boston Medical Center (BMC) Dr. Alan Fujii, Elizabeth Sridhar (BME ’18), Nicholas Leung (BME ’17) gather at BMC to show off the neonatal vitals monitoring pad prototype.

Biomedical Engineering

Bridge BUilders

April 30, 2018

Bridge BUilders