Meet the Case Scholars
The ENG recipients of BU’s prestigious Case Scholarship are working on solutions in the lab, and making engineering education accessible.
Large Language Models Advance Healthcare and Public Health
Yannis Paschalidis and his students find new ways to integrate LLMs into healthcare and public health.
BU Engineers Are Helping to Bring Semiconductor Production Back to the US
Ayse Coskun highlights chip technology research at BU.
A Polymer That Defies Nature: The First Molecularly Impermeable Plastic
For decades, scientists believed all plastics shared one unavoidable weakness: no matter how dense or strong, gases could always slip through. Even the toughest polymers, from bulletproof Kevlar to everyday food packaging, may look solid, but at the molecular level, tiny gas molecules can still sneak through. That’s why potato chips go stale and packaged food loses its crispness.
Now, a collaboration between researchers at Boston University’s College of Engineering, MIT, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Massachusetts and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has overturned that assumption. In a study published today in Nature, the team reports the discovery of the first polymer that is molecularly impermeable; a man-made material that acts as a perfect barrier to gas molecules.
Batmanghelich, Ohn-Bar Earn NSF CAREER Awards
The award will propel the research of rising stars in ECE.
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.
David Bishop wins prestigious prize for his contributions to understanding superfluids
David Bishop was awarded the 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize on November 5, 2025, for groundbreaking experiments that uncovered the role of vortices in the superfluid phase transition in helium films and observed anyonic braiding statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect, thus establishing the significance of topological excitations in two-dimensions.
Self-Driving Lab to Accelerate the Breakdown of Toxic Chemicals
A new federally funded research effort is tackling one of chemistry’s most complex challenges, safely breaking down toxic industrial chemicals. Keith Brown (ME, MSE, Physics)(PI) and James Chapman (ME, MSE)(co-PI) in collaboration with Xi Ling (Chemistry, MSE) are bringing together robotics, artificial intelligence, and materials science to find a solution. The project is supported by […]
Master’s Student Advances Research on Zigbee Network Privacy
System Engineering master’s student Yishun Xiong researches how to improve the detection of communication between connected devices.
Matters of Perception
Professor Goyal receives funding for long-distance 3D imaging and atmospheric sensing.