Strength in Numbers: Robots Learn to Work Together
Agriculture. Automotive. Medicine. Biotechnology. Name an industry, and Professor Calin Belta (ME, SE, ECE) can tell you how the field of robotics will impact it—if it hasn’t already.
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.
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.
Shedding Light on a Puzzling Protein Process
A common thread ties seemingly unlinked disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and type II diabetes together. This thread is known as protein aggregation and happens when proteins clump together.
Paschalidis Hosts Symposium on Control and Network Systems
The 2nd Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES) will be held on Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at the Boston University Photonics Center.
Dean’s Catalyst Awards Turn 10
Science can be a risky investment. Large government institutions that hold the purse strings to research dollars want to know their investment is sound. But great scientific ideas don’t always come with a guarantee of success.
Celebrating an ENG Research Milestone
The sounds of chatter and laughter bounced about as professors, administrators and leaders from Boston University came together to celebrate the beginning of a research endeavor that could change the way doctors treat heart disease.
Distinguished Alumni Awards Honor ENG Graduates
by Liz Sheeley The College of Engineering honored three alumni for their career achievements and for the support they have given their alma mater and community during BU Alumni Weekend 2017. The ceremony was held on Friday, September 15, and after a welcoming address from Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen, two current students and one recent […]
Zhang wins $1.7M grant to study diabetic arteries
By Liz Sheeley Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in the U.S. and diabetics are two to four times more likely to have heart disease or a stroke than non-diabetics. For the past seven years, Associate Professor Katherine Yanhang Zhang (ME, BME, MSE) has been working under a National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]
Kilachand Center Hosts Inaugural Symposium
Daylong event celebrates “nexus of life sciences and engineering” By Barbara Moran, BU Research When Ahmad “Mo” Khalil explains his work to an audience, he likes to play a movie. The 30-second bit of film—famous in some circles—shows a white blood cell chasing a bacterium, winding its way around obstacles, hunting its prey with what seems like relentless, single-minded […]