When Slower Means Faster
As bacteria grow increasingly resistant to antibiotics, scientists are on the hunt for a fast way test how the bacteria infecting a patient will respond to a particular antibiotic. Professor Kamil Ekinci (ME, MSE), Assistant Professor Chuanhua Duan (ME, MSE) and postdoctoral fellow Vural Kara, along with collaborators from the BU School of Medicine, have developed a new rapid antibiotic susceptibility test that works by measuring the movements of bacteria
Stories in Space
By Shruti Bhiwandiwala 2018 has already been a big year for Prof. Brian Walsh. Following a successful collaboration with the University of Miami on a launch at Poker Flat, Alaska, he’s now preparing for the ANDESITE launch, scheduled to happen in the near future. The journey behind the University of Miami launch goes back […]
ENG Students Featured in BU Today
A recent BU Today article has been published featuring the work of both a BME Professor and ENG students. Click here for more information.
The Hands-Off Approach
Associate Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME), doctoral student Luis Ortiz (MCBB), Research Fellow Marilene Pavan (ECE), and software engineers Josh Timmons and Lloyd McCarthy from Lattice Automation (a software company Densmore co-founded) have demonstrated the usefulness of an automated pipetting robot paired with a novel software tool through a Journal of Visualized Experiments video.
Wong’s Research Earns a Spot in STAT Madness
Assistant Professor Wilson Wong’s (BME) research has been chosen by STAT, a Boston-based, health-and-science-focused news website, to participate in its bracket of scientific research projects called STAT Madness.
Luca Dal Negro Promoted to Rank of Full Professor
The Provost office has announced the promotion of Luca Dal Negro to the rank of full professor at Boston University. Luca Dal Negro (ECE, MSE), specializes in optics, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and the development of optical materials that advance on-chip optical sensing, light emission, energy conversion, and thin-film solar cell technology. A past NSF CAREER Award […]
Insights into Instabilities
In two recent papers published in Physical Review Letters, Associate Professor Douglas Holmes (ME, MSE) outlines two different concepts that push forward our understanding of how soft matter behaves under instable conditions like growth.
Behind BU Bold: MechE’s Role in the Climate Action Plan
For BUMechE professor Michael Gevelber, the Climate Action Plan has been a project 10 years in the making. By Shruti Bhiwandiwala Prof. Gevelber (ME, MSE, SE) who offered energy audit courses for five years starting in 2008, worked with a team of students in Spring 2017 to formulate the research that would help build Boston […]
In Memory of Professor Herb Voigt
Our dear colleague and friend Herb Voigt passed away suddenly on Thursday, January 25. Herb was one of the first hires of then-Chairman Steve Colburn in 1981, and was part of a small team that built the department from scratch. Among his many honors, Herb is the only person to have served as President of […]
Bending Is Beautiful: ENG’s Doug Holmes studies thin, unstable structures
Douglas Holmes remembers when he fell in love with bendy things. He was a graduate student in physics, and he wanted to understand why a sheet of paper curves into a loop when you push the ends together.