A Leap Forward in Lung Imaging
Hadi Nia earns a Beckman award By Patrick L. Kennedy More than 230,000 Americans contracted lung cancer last year, and for many it was a death sentence—more than half of lung cancer victims die within a year of diagnosis. And yet, the lung is something of a black box, says Assistant Professor Hadi Nia (BME, […]
Coskun to Lead CISE
Dean Kenneth Lutchen has announced that Professor Ayse Coskun (ECE) will become the next director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). Coskun will replace Distinguished Professor of Engineering Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE) who has become the new director of the Hariri Institute. Coskun has been active within CISE for more than […]
POV: End of Roe v. Wade and Right to Abortion Will Impact Research
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson will change my research on reproductive health technology—and end some of it altogether By Professor and Associate Dean of Research Catherine Klapperich (BME) If you are using technology to track your period, and abortion is even a remote possibility, delete your period tracking apps. Now. Why? Because […]
Schmidt Award Will Empower Khalil to Pursue Cross-Disciplinary Research
Associate Professor Ahmad “Mo” Khalil (BME) has earned the Schmidt Science Polymaths Award, recognizing him as a bold researcher and fueling the possibility of advances toward the engineering of new multicellular systems, including plants, that can help humanity address devastating diseases and grapple with climate change. Granting Khalil and his lab $500,000 a year for […]
Six ENG Faculty Earn Ignition Awards
The BU Ignition Awards help fast-track the commercialization of promising new research, from a tiny ring that stops chronic pain to soft robotic grippers that can pick up delicate objects By David Levin Tiny rings that stop chronic pain. A molecule that targets deadly lung cancer. Robotic hands that can pluck even the most delicate […]
Stemming a Grade-School Brain Drain
With nonprofit and book, alumna seeks to hook girls on STEM fields By Patrick L. Kennedy The girls raised their hands to ask and answer questions when Sarah Foster (ENG’05) visited her sons’ second- and third-grade classrooms as a volunteer, running engineering activities. Evidently, both boys and girls were curious about science, technology, engineering and […]
Lift Off!
How a scrappy student club launched dozens of ENG alums into the aerospace industry By Patrick L. Kennedy If you erred as an undergrad and a half-ton, flammable-fuel-filled metal canister exploded as a result, requiring the services of the local fire department, you might want to leave that incident off your résumé. That is, unless […]
“Why Not You?”
2022 graduates urged to step up and tackle today’s challenges By Patrick L. Kennedy The latest cohort of Societal Engineers to stride forth from Boston University have the chance to build on the successes and redress the missteps of previous generations as they seek new solutions to the globe’s daunting problems, Vanessa Feliberti Bautista (’93) […]
Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations Debut in Capstone Course
By Patrick L. Kennedy A new slate of interdisciplinary endeavors joined the roster of ENG’s capstone Senior Design Projects this year, resulting in promising developments in technology for applications ranging from lobstering and carpentry to molecule imaging and kidney health. The Senior Design Project is a year-long, hands-on team effort that caps off the Boston […]
Biotech Developing “Tissue Therapeutics” to Treat Diseased Organs Launches from BU and MIT Labs
Greater Boston has become the nation’s biotech hub—the Silicon Valley of life sciences, according to some—and Massachusetts is now reportedly home to more than 1,000 biotech companies, employing more than 80,000 people. One of the newest multimillion-dollar firms helping to drive the boom has its roots in a Boston University lab. Satellite Bio—fueled by technology codeveloped by BU biomedical engineer Christopher Chen—launched in April after announcing it had secured $110 million in venture funding.