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New Self-Lubricating Condom Would Revolutionize Safe Sex

Other than adding flavors and colors, it’s been nearly 50 years since a major advancement in the design of condoms. BU researchers may have changed that. More

The Bright Idea That Sparked More Bright Ideas

Engineers solve grand challenges by forming interdisciplinary centers More

Breast Cancer Beacon

New device could make lumpectomies faster and more precise More

ENG Researcher Touted As Emerging Leader

Assistant Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh (ECE, MSE, Physics) was recognized by Nature as one of 11 early- to mid-career scientists making an impact in their fields. More

Searching for a Better Battery

Prof. Ryan uses computational models to improve the capacity of lithium and metal batteries by breaking up dendrite growth. Such potential improvements will help power green and personal technology. More

US News Lists BU among Most Innovative Universities

BU was named one of the most innovative national universities for the first time in the 2019 US News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, out today. “I think there’s a general understanding that the world of higher education is changing rapidly,” says Gerald Fine (MSE, ME). “The leadership of the University has created an environment where experimentation in better ways to educate students is encouraged.” More

Duan Wins DARPA Young Faculty Award

Duan’s award will help fund his research into replicating cell-to-cell communication. He is one of the 35 YFA awardees this year and will receive close to $500,000 from DARPA over the next two years to pursue his project and he could receive an additional $500,000 based on the progress of the project. More

Shrinking Down Soft Robots

A novel four-step process has been developed by researchers including Assistant Professor Tommaso Ranzani (ME) and Assistant Professor Sheila Russo (ME) to construct microfluidic origami for reconfigurable pneumatic/hydraulic (MORPH) systems. Their work, published in Advanced Materials, details the process and demonstrates its capabilities with the fabrication of a highly complex soft structure. More

Chemistry and Materials Professor Named ACS Fellow

Materials Professor Malika Jeffries-EL elected ACS Fellow for her research activity and dedication to “diversifying the chemical workforce through mentoring and training students.” More

Katherine Yanhang Zhang Named Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Only three percent of members become fellows and to be nominated and elected, a member must meet qualifications in at least one of nine categories; Zhang was chosen for her accomplishments in the research and education categories. More

Professors Elected AAAS Fellows

Joyce Wong (BME, MSE) and Eric Kolaczyk (CAS, SE) were elected 2017 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. More

Bird Recognized as an Outstanding Educator in Prism’s 20-Under-40

Assistant Professor James Bird (ME, MSE) was recognized by the American Society for Engineering Educators in the summer edition of Prism magazine as one of 20 high-achieving researchers and educators under 40. More

Professor James “Jacy” Bird Named Early Risers (PRISM Summer 2018 issue)

We are very proud to announce that BUMechE and Materials Professor James "Jacy" Bird was named in PRISM Magazine's Summer 2018 issue among Early Risers:... More

A Room with a View: MSE Alum Shakes Up the Common Window

MSE alum Roa Mulpuri (’92, ’96), CEO of View, has created dynamic window glass that can lower a building's energy consumption by about 20 percent, and can be controlled by an app. More

The Beauty and Science of Bubbles

Prof. James Bird (ME, MSE) discusses his research on the scientific significance of bubbles. More

Hearts, Minds, and Microbubbles

Prof. Porter wins $2.5 million grant from the NIA to develop a drug and a delivery system. Prof. Porter is partnering with Prof. Morgan. More

Xin Zhang Presents DeLisi Distinguished Lecture

Professor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE, ECE, BME), recipient of the 2018 Charles DeLisi Award and Distinguished Lecture, presented “Tailoring Electromagnetic and Acoustic Waves with MEMS and Metamaterials” on April 12. More

Lighting up the Brain

Faced with a problem, David Boas will invent a way around it. Boas, the founding director of the Boston University Neurophotonics Center and a world leader in the field of neurophotonics, which uses light to peer inside the living brain, built a homemade Ethernet connection to speed his doctoral research (one year before the first web browser was unveiled) and wrote a software program to make a girlfriend's research go faster. More

Bellotti to Lead Army Research Laboratory Center for Semiconductor Modeling

Professor Enrico Bellotti (ECE, MSE) is the principal investigator of a new $1.25 million interdisciplinary center that will work with collaborators from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, industry and academia to develop new simulation and design methodologies for semiconductor materials and devices. More

BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center

Goal is personalized heart tissue for clinical use By Barbara Moran, BU Research Boston University has won a $20 million, five-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to... More

Where I’m Coming From: Tyrone Porter

Tyrone Porter grew up in Detroit. At the time, he says, the city was about 75 percent black. Now he’s a College of Engineering associate professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering, where the demographics are very different. More

Smaller, Faster, Cheaper

Boston University engineering professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, ME, MSE) understands just how powerful it is to have direct access to your medical information. She’s working to make that “little revolution” a lot bigger through simple, portable tests for conditions like HPV, malaria, and chlamydia that patients can use worldwide. More

BME/MSE Professor Given Rice 360 Award

BME/MSE Professor Muhammad Zaman has been awarded the Rice 360 Inspiration Award, which is given to Global Health Professionals for their inspiration to the students... More

Counterfeit Viagra Is a Problem

In 2012, a cluster of people in Lahore, Pakistan, started dying inexplicably. Most were mid- to low-income patients who had received free medicine at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology. Within a week, over 200 people died. An investigation found that the patients’ high blood pressure medication had been contaminated with similar-looking antimalarial ingredients. More

Karl and Barbone Elected as AIMBE Fellows

Professor Paul Barbone (ME, MSE) and Professor W. Clem Karl (ECE, SE) have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. More

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Luca Dal Negro Promoted to Full ECE Professorship

Professor Luca Dal Negro, PhD (ECE, MSE, Physics) was promoted to the rank of Professor in Boston University’s College of Engineering. More

ENG Faculty Members among 2018 Ignition Award recipients

Technology Development is pleased to announce the winners for the 9th annual Ignition Awards. The Ignition Program includes two separate awards— approximately five $75,000 one-year... More

Xin Zhang to Deliver DeLisi Lecture

To recognize their contributions to engineering and society, Professor Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) is the recipient of this year’s Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture, and Assistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME) has received the Early Career Excellence Award. More

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 More

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... More

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. More

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... More

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. More

Three ENG Professors Elected OSA Fellows

Professor David Boas (BME, ECE), Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE, MSE), and Associate Professor Luca Dal Negro (ECE, MSE, Physics) have been elected as Fellows of The Optical Society (OSA). More

ENG Prof Elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors: David Bishop a prolific real-world innovator

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MechE Asst. Prof. Emily Ryan Receives 2017 Scialog Fellowship

In November, Assistant Professor Emily Ryan (ME, MSE) was awarded the 2017 Scialog Fellowship for Advanced Energy Storage, along with some of the nation’s finest... More

New understanding of graphene nanochannels could revolutionize energy-efficient technologies

In a recent paper in Nature Nanotechnology, Assistant Professor Chuanhua Duan (ME, MSE) and his team have quantified water slippages in single graphene nanochannels for the first time and detailed why those data are inconsistent. More

Single-dose drug delivery system creates hope for streamlined cancer treatment

An interdisciplinary team of biomedical engineers, chemists, and clinicians led by Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME) has developed a novel sustained-release, biodegradable nanoparticle system that carries a common cancer drug to deliver a therapeutic dose in one injection that has the same curative effect as the standard multi-dose effect. More

Cheng is Inaugural Moustakas Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics

Upon Professor Ji-Xin Cheng’s (ECE, BME) appointment to the College of Engineering last summer, he was named the inaugural holder of the endowed Theodore Moustakas Professorship in Photonics and Optoelectronics. More

Wong Named AAAS Fellow

Professor Joyce Y. Wong (BME, MSE) has been named a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). More

Klapperich Awarded Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Grant

Long-term HIV treatment, known as antiretroviral therapy, has dramatically changed the quality of life and longevity of infected and at-risk patients. More

A Hidden Pathway is Revealed

Two BME researchers were excited to use a new 3D blood vessel-on-a-chip that they developed in Professor Christopher Chen’s (BME, MSE) lab because it provided a perfect platform for studying the effects of mechanical forces of blood flow on vessels in life-like conditions. More