Does Twitter, under Elon Musk, Need Government Regulation?
“Platforms should self-police and enforce their own terms of service,” says ENG expert. “When this doesn’t happen, the platform stops being useful to legitimate users.” By Rich Barlow “Fix your companies. Or Congress will.” Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) minced no words in his tweet to Elon Musk after revelations that the billionaire’s latest acquisition, Twitter, […]
What Happened to the Robots in BU’s COVID-19 Testing Lab? They’re Getting a New Mission
An automated wet lab built by biomedical and electrical & computer engineers is opening up its facilities to researchers from across BU.
Lifting Up Leaders
Robotics students earn Amazon Day One Fellowships This fall, two Boston University College of Engineering graduate students arrived on campus as Amazon Day One Fellows, gaining mentorship, internship and career opportunities as part of a program aimed at boosting both the diversity and the quality of the robotics engineering workforce. Asbel Fontanez (ENG’22) and Priscila […]
Seeing a Way to Combat Cancer
In the fight to treat ovarian cancer, innovative chemical imaging techniques developed by Professor Ji-Xin Cheng (ECE, BME, MSE) are fast becoming valuable tools, as reported in two high-impact journals in the space of two months.
Communicating with Cells in Their Natural Language
A biomimetic method of talking to cells might lead to targeted drug delivery, improved prosthetics, and other applications.
The Blurring Line Between Biology and Technology
ENG faculty are using insights from more powerful imaging, sensing, and probing technologies to develop new biologically based tools By Kat J. McAlpine Imagine a future where organs could be grown synthetically or manufactured to help address the global shortage of transplantable organs. Or food proteins or carbohydrates could be fabricated for consumption on demand, […]
Faculty across five BU research centers will work together to prevent future pandemics
A multidisciplinary team of researchers were awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop models that predict disease emergence and spread, and to devise pandemic mitigation strategies. By Gina Mantica A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Boston University will work towards predicting and preventing future pandemics as part of a new $1 million […]
With Keck Funding, BU-UCI Team to Study Cell Signaling
A continent-spanning team that includes Associate Professor Ahmad (Mo) Khalil (BME) has garnered a $1 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation for a cell signaling study that might lead to heart and pain therapies with fewer side effects. Khalil and co-PI Chang Liu, associate professor of biomedical engineering at UC Irvine, will develop a platform to […]
Runyon Grant for Study of Tumor “Design Principles”
Klumpe has won a fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation to figure out how cells aggregate into tumors.
Live from Space, BU Alum and Astronaut Bob Hines Talks Gravity, Lasagna, NASA Careers
University event lets high school students and others ask questions of astronauts on the International Space Station By Joel Brown for Bostonia How is being in space different from Earth? On the International Space Station (ISS), “you lose something, and you give up on finding it, and two weeks or a month later, it just […]