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Artificially Intelligent Robot
Watch Emily Fitzgerald's (ENG'16) artificially intelligent robot that she created with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) last summer.
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Undergraduate Research in :60
This year, honors history student Diana Griffin (CAS'13) had the opportunity to travel not only to London, but through time. With grants from the Department of History and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Griffin spent the Fall [...]Semester haunting the London Archives for her thesis on Elizabeth I. Her family is nuts for the royals (her parents named each of their girls after British princesses), so the opportunity to get up close and personal with the monarchy's colorful history was the talk of the Griffin household. Little did they know how up close and personal. "I thought I would have to wear white gloves to handle the documents, but that wasn't the case," Griffin says. "Instead, I was holding the very same letters that Elizabeth held. My fingers touched the same places her fingers touched. It was so powerful. It was like I was suddenly there with her."
Read the story on the Annual Report:
http://www.bu.edu/ar
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Big Meaning in the Smallest Movements
As an undergraduate, Chris Kwan began developing software with classmates Won-Beom Kim and Igor Fedyuk that adapts for users with severe motion impairments. The team further refined their work through BU's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program [...](UROP). Here, Kwan, now a graduate student and John Magee discuss and demonstrate the liberating software with their adviser Margrit Betke.
View the story on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/node/13055
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An Inside Look at UROP: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
Doing research on memory function made this undergrad's brain light up. Now she hopes to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease.
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This Astrophysics Student Studied 20,000 White Dwarf Stars
For a lot of people, the unknown is a scary prospect—but not for Boston University astrophysics student Ariyana Bonab (CAS’25). She’s long been curious about space and the universe’s biggest mysteries—what’s inside a black hole, what [...]happens when stars die—and known she wanted to study astrophysics since she was a kid.
Now, she studies white dwarf stars in a research group led by JJ Hermes, a BU College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of astronomy. White dwarf stars are the leftover cores of dying stars. In her project, funded by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Bonab has looked at over 54,000 images of white dwarfs, and is trying to determine the composition of each one.
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How Math and Engineering Changed This Student’s Life: A Personal Story
When most people think of robots, what comes to mind is probably something with a hard shell, likely made of metal or plastic—and maybe shaped like a human. But when Boston University mechanical engineering major Sarah Alizadeh-Shabdiz thinks of [...]robots, she pictures a bendy, wiggly piece of rubber. Purple rubber. That’s because Alizadeh-Shabdiz (ENG’26) spent her summer doing research in BU’s Soft Robotics Control Lab.
Soft robots are just that: robots—or parts of robots—made from bendable, pliable materials, such as silicone rubber. Designers of soft robots often take inspiration from nature, looking at animals with naturally flexible limbs, like octopuses. The potential applications of their work are wide-ranging, from assisting with surgeries to engaging in search and rescue missions in difficult-to-squeeze-into places. In the Soft Robotics Control Lab, principal investigator Andrew Sabelhaus, a College of Engineering assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and his students are studying novel ways to improve how soft robots are controlled, as well as the fundamental physics underlying how they interact with the environment.
“Soft robots are understood in the scientific community to be inherently safer,” says Alizadeh-Shabdiz. This makes sense, intuitively: a robot arm made of soft rubber seems less likely to crush something than one made of hard plastic or metal. But it turns out that very little research has been done on exactly how much safer soft robots might be. Among Alizadeh-Shabdiz’s summer research projects was an experiment, funded by a grant from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, designed to measure the force one of the lab’s soft robot limbs can exert on an object.
In the video above, find out why Alizadeh-Shabdiz needed the help of Toys“R”Us to complete her study and how her love of mathematics inspires her research—and her goal of becoming a teacher.
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UROP – Connecting Student Researchers with Faculty Mentors
The Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) facilitates undergraduate participation in faculty-mentored research projects. Funding opportunities exist and the program is flexible, allowing research study in any academic [...]area University-wide. Visit our website (www.bu.edu/urop) to learn more about how students might just find the perfect opportunity to pursue their passions.
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