Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts
Undergraduate Researchers and Mentors Move ENG Forward By Sara Cody Ribbons of neon light undulate in the northern night sky, a technicolor display of pinks, greens, yellows, blues and reds against a backdrop of stars. They have captured the human imagination for millennia: the ancient Greeks thought they marked the gates of the home world […]
“Science is global”
Joyce Wong Presents De Lisi Distinguished Lecture, Highlights Collaboration and Research in Biomaterials to Treat Disease By Sara Cody Standing before a packed ballroom of colleagues and friends on April 25, Professor Joyce Y. Wong (BME, MSE), recipient of the 2016 Charles De Lisi Award and Distinguished Lecture, presented “Biomaterials to Detect and Treat Disease.” […]
Neurophotonics Center Aims to Advance Understanding of the Brain
By Michael Seele Efforts to understand the workings of the human brain have taken quantum leaps forward in recent years as researchers have developed non-invasive, light-based methods to observe its functioning in real time. Now, the College of Engineering is capitalizing on Boston University’s interdisciplinary expertise in neuroscience and photonics to create the Neurophotonics Center, […]
Symposium Will Highlight Multidisciplinary Work in Biological Design
The ENG Biological Design Center Kickoff Symposium and Charles Cantor Lecture at the Questrom School of Business June 1 marked the center’s official opening, with a lunch and poster session at the new Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering. Bioinformatics doctoral candidates David Bray (ENG’22) (left) and William Hackett (ENG’23) reflect on the electronic […]
It Takes Teamwork
New Interdisciplinary Research Center will Focus on Making Diagnostics Smart and Portable By Sara Cody The road to commercializing medical technology is usually long, requiring the work of basic scientists, clinical researchers, engineers and eventually industry partners, with one group passing along knowledge to the next until a marketable version of the technology is finally […]
Catapult Challenge Winners Announced
By Sara Cody College of Engineering Kenneth R. Lutchen presented the top finishers in the inaugural Tinker Catapult Challenge with their prizes at a recent event in the Binoy K. Singh Imagineering Laboratory. Fifteen teams of undergraduate students participated in the contest. The challenge took place over two days. The contest was open to the BU […]
Novel Hydroponic Garden Design Takes Top Prize in Imagineering Competition
By Sara Cody Growing up on an organic farm in Hawaii, Summer Mundon (ME’17) was exposed to sustainable agriculture at an early age. When it came time to design a product for the Sixth Annual Imagineering Competition, which invites undergraduates to submit extracurricular projects that showcase their creativity and entrepreneurial capabilities for a chance to […]
NSF Training Grant Funds New Neurophotonics Initiative Using Light to Explore the Brain
By Sara Cody Interdisciplinary research that uses light to understand how the brain functions will receive a major boost under a new $2.9 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship grant announced recently. The five-year grant will allow the establishment of a new graduate-level program of study that focuses on understanding and influencing brain function using […]
How to Hack a Cell
Wong’s New Platform Makes It Easier to Program Living Cells By Sara Cody The human body is made up of trillions of cells, microscopic computers that carry out complex behaviors according to the signals they receive from each other and their environment. Synthetic biologists engineer living cells to control how they behave by converting their […]
The Light Stuff
Alumna’s Startup Aims to Improve Health Through Lighting By Sara Cody The invention of the light bulb paved the way for humans to conquer the darkness; effectively severing the dependence on the sun to provide productive working hours for humans. Recent advances in materials research are now providing new ways to render light that are […]