Eye-Opening Contributions
ECE Professors Michelle Sander and Lei Tian have been elected to Optica’s 2025 class of Fellows.
EPIC at Ten
“EPIC is not a stagnant facility.” With new equipment and a new director, this is the place to come to gain hands-on experience in design, prototyping, and small-scale manufacturing.
Taking the “U” out of “UFO”?
Professor Joshua Semeter will appear on a new one-hour special from the classic PBS series NOVA.
Presidential Honors
Michelle Sander is the recipient of a PECASE, the US government’s highest honor for early-career researchers.
NASA to Blast BU Telescope to the Moon in Historic First
“LEXI will image, for the first time, the boundary of Earth’s magnetic field.”
A Commitment to Service In His Field
Professor W. Clem Karl has been elected to serve as IEEE’s 2025 Vice President of Publication Services and Products.
Scaling Up Synthetic Biology
Khalil and colleagues are developing a technology to selectively and efficiently transfer chromosomes between different human cells.
Dean Announces First Faculty to Earn New Awards for Lab Equipment
“The quality of the research that these inaugural infrastructure awards will support is incredible.”
Could Twisting Beams of Light Make the Internet Faster—and Greener?
“This is an extremely complex problem that requires a massive convergence in multiple planes and axes.”
Color Meets Bio-inspired Metamaterials
Diatoms, which are microscopic unicellular algae often referred to as “jewels of the sea” and “living opals,” have a fascinating nanoscale porous structure on their silica exoskeletons called frustules. These structures display vibrant colors and intricate patterns. In work featured on the cover of Advanced Materials, Xin Zhang, Xiaohang Xie, and their collaborators utilized the […]