This Is Your Brain on Microwaves
Professor Chen Yang leads $3M investigation into the non-thermal mechanisms of bioeffects of microwaves on neurons.
Found in Translation: Darren Roblyer’s Path From Hands-On Research to Research In-Hand
In order to measure blood pressure noninvasively, it may be prudent to measure how blood flows through the body using light rather than using the standard cuff-based technique. To detect fibrosis in the skin, one may find more luck using advanced optical imaging than relying on the currently used “pinch” scale. And to elevate the field of biophotonics, one may not simply focus on advancing the technologies itself, but the people, outlets, and resources within the research ecosystem. This is the path Dr. Darren Roblyer (BME, ECE) has been carving throughout his career, chasing both common and unsought biomedical engineering opportunities to improve clinical procedures and enhance the field for new and incoming voices.
Prizes for Pithy Pitches
In the Three Minute Thesis Competition, doctoral students learn to distill their dissertation research into a short, compelling presentation for a general audience.
What Is the Cocktail Party Problem—and Can This Research Solve It?
Boas and Sen are combining expertise from neuroscience, engineering, photonics, and computer science to better understand how our brains sift through different noises.
Nanomaterials and Vaccine Research Earns CMBE Rising Star Award
Michelle Teplensky was awarded the Biomedical Engineering Society’s 2026 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award.
Accelerating Progress with Self-Driving Labs
Materials researchers shared successes and challenges with automation.
Skyward Bound
The successful launch of Icarus, a liquid-fueled rocket designed and built by BU students.
Developing a Life-Saving Option for a Rare Childhood Disorder
As a Hartwell Investigator, Samagya Banskota and her collaborators will leverage a cutting-edge genome editing technique.
BU Launches an Open-Source Infectious Diseases Monitoring Tool Powered by AI and Human Experts
From measles, to influenza, to mpox, to malaria—infectious diseases outbreaks are happening all over the world, at nearly all times. For health professionals and public health officials, staying up-to-date with pathogens that are particularly dangerous—or have the potential to become a pandemic, like COVID-19 did—is vitally important to help keep us all safe. But accessing real-time information on outbreaks, as they pop up around the globe, isn’t always simple; currently, much of it is aggregated by hand.
Dean’s Faculty Leadership Fellows Begin Work
Bunch and Farny are the first recipients of the new fellowship.