Three Awarded Career Development Professorships
Three assistant professors have earned professorships that recognize future leaders in their fields, Boston University Provost Jean Morrison has announced. Abdoulaye Ndao was named the next Reidy Family Career Development Professor, while Eshed Ohn-Bar and Ashok Cutkosky each garnered a Peter J. Levine Career Development Professorship. The Reidy and Levine professorships are two of the […]
Where You Bring Ideas Into Reality
New EPIC Director Anna Thornton sees the cutting-edge facility as a place where faculty, students and industry work together to solve engineering challenges With a broad vision for the high-tech manufacturing and design space at the heart of Boston University’s campus, Professor of the Practice Anna Thornton (ME) has taken the reins as the new […]
Lewis Garners a McKnight Award
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Assistant Professor Laura Lewis (BME) as one of seven neuroscientists to receive the 2021 McKnight Scholar Award. The McKnight awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and research careers and who have demonstrated a commitment to […]
AHA Moment: Lejeune Awarded Funding for Heart Cell Data Work
By Patrick L. Kennedy With a promising technology aimed at combating heart disease, Assistant Professor Emma Lejeune (ME) has earned the American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award. Lejeune’s software and computational methods have the potential to empower future researchers to develop medicine and artificial tissue that will cure cases of cardiac disease—the leading cause […]
Three ENG Faculty Promoted
Three College of Engineering faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure “Each year, these promotions and awards of tenure mark an especially proud moment for the BU community, as we’ve had the pleasure of watching these talented colleagues develop from promising junior faculty into teachers and scholars of national impact […]
The Sensor You Swallow
By Patrick L. Kennedy Thanks to the work of Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil (ECE) and her colleagues at MIT, Crohn’s and other bowel disease sufferers might someday skip the arduous annual endoscopy and instead swallow a pill-sized device that would literally shed light on what’s going on inside the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. MIT researchers previously […]
Laura Lewis Named a Pew Scholar
Continuing a streak of honors for her ground-breaking research into the complex neural circuits that govern sleep, Assistant Professor Laura Lewis (BME) has been selected one of 22 early-career researchers to join the Pew Scholars Program.
Tinker Contest Tackles COVID Pet Peeves
By Patrick L. Kennedy Are you six feet away from that person? For much of the pandemic, that question was more than academic, but few of us can tell without a tape measure. One ENG student created a kind of laser pointer that answers that question, and it took top honors in the spring 2021 […]
Start-Up Stars
Two ENG alumni are on Forbes’ list of top young entrepreneurs By Patrick L. Kennedy If you’re a frequent flyer, you’ve been there. At the airport, eyes on the big board, monitoring your flight status. Delayed. Delayed. And then: Cancelled. Saniya Shah (’16) has certainly been there, and she’s hit upon a solution. Shah is […]
Gerry Fine to Retire
Professor of the Practice Gerald J. Fine (ME, MSE) has announced that he will retire at the end of this year. Fine is the director of the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC) and the head of Innovate@BU, a cross-disciplinary incubator for students’ cutting-edge ideas. Read the full story at BU Today.