How Light Turns Ordinary Hydrogen Peroxide into a MRSA Treatment
ENG researchers invent blue light therapy that kills MRSA without antibiotics. Perhaps what’s most promising is that blue light phototherapy doesn’t affect healthy cells of the body, so the technique could be used to treat MRSA infections without harming any surrounding tissue or skin.
BU-led Research Team Wins Competitive $7.5 million MURI Grant to Create Neuro-Autonomous Robots
Dream Team of Engineers, Computer Scientists, and Neuroscientists from BU, MIT, and Australia to develop neuro-inspired capabilities for Land, Sea, and Air-based Autonomous Robots
Q&A with Masha Kamenetska
BU assistant professor of physics, chemistry, and materials science and engineering wins prestigious $450,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research The Air Force Office of Scientific Research received 290 proposals for its Young Investigator Research Program and recently announced it was awarding $13.9 million in grants to 31 scientists and engineers. […]
What If You Could Manage Information Overload?
Groundbreaking collaboration among BU schools and researchers leads to $1 million NSF grant to address media overload
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.
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.
Using Big Data, Machine Learning to Reduce Chronic Disease Spending
“There is a lot of information about every one of us, in EHRs, in smart phones, in smart watches, and in other tracking devices,” Iaonnis Paschalidis, Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering and Systems Engineering Professor, told HealthITAnalytics.com. “We can now analyze what happens to patients in real time and characterize the status and health condition of each individual.”
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.”
BU and Johnson & Johnson Innovation Team Up to Fight Lung Cancer
As a model for industry and academia collaborating to improve human health, BU has launched a five-year translational research alliance with Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC (JJI) aimed at preventing, intercepting, and curing lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Spiral (SE) will lead the effort.
Goyal Receives IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Vivek Goyal won a 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. His article, titled “Message-Passing De-Quantization with Applications to Compressed Sensing,” was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in December 2012. Goyal is one of three authors, including Ulugbek S. Kamilov (Washington University in St. Louis) […]