Xin Zhang Earns Sigma Xi’s Chubb Award
The prestigious Walston Chubb Award for Innovation is the latest in a string of honors for this pioneer of metamaterials.
Breathe Easier While Steering From Afar
From Sheila Russo’s lab, a soft robotic tool to help detect lung cancer early, when it’s most curable By Patrick L. Kennedy Imagine standing outside a hedge maze and shoving a garden hose into it. Now, holding one end of the hose in your hands, you’re trying to maneuver the other end of the hose […]
Machines and Health
BU engineers are combining their expertise to develop robotic and AI technologies to help solve health problems of all kinds.
This Soft Robot Might Save Millions of Lives
A millimeter-scale, multifunctional soft robot that overcomes three hurdles that have been hampering minimally invasive heart surgeries.
Are You Ready? A Saliva Test Might Tell
Alex Green leads a $17.7 million DARPA project analyzing biomarkers to assess readiness for physically and mentally challenging tasks.
Translational Biomedical Advances Highlighted at Inaugural BTEC Symposium
Promising advances in biological engineering were the topics of discussion at the Bioengineering Technology & Entrepreneurship Center’s (BTEC) inaugural symposium this month. The event featured former BME faculty member and current dean of the Brown University School of Engineering Tejal Desai, as well as several BME faculty members and an industry executive.
Gevelber Named a Sustainability Champion
This year’s sustainability “superhero” award winners were recognized for their significant contributions to research or practice in sustainability and climate change, as well as equity and justice.
Improving the Science Behind Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
At BU’s Fluid Lab, James Bird’s latest research could help give forensic scientists new tools for analyzing bloodstains at crime scenes.
How ultrafast lasers developed in Michelle Sander’s lab are speeding up biological research
Michelle Sander and her lab group at Boston University are seeking out new ways to build ultrafast lasers – lasers that emit such short-lasting pulses of light that their duration is difficult to fathom.
“I’m particularly interested in developing lasers on the femtosecond scale – a fraction of a second so small that its ratio is the same as one second to 32 million years,” Sander says.
Converging on Training Tomorrow’s Bioengineers
With an NSF grant, a BU program will train a diverse group of PhD students for tomorrow’s workforce in biotech, synthetic biology, and other sectors.