Meet the Newest MSE Career Award Winners
Wanzheng Hu Photo courtesy of Hu In September 2017, physicist Wanzheng Hu moved from Germany to the United States to begin teaching at BU, despite having never stepped foot in the US before. She has since established the Hu lab, which focuses on the interaction between light and quantum materials. With her NSF CAREER award […]
Cheng Wins Grant to Continue Breakthrough Imaging Research
He received a Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award for $2.9 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health.
VIDEO: Watch These 3D-Printed Nasal Swab Prototypes Take Form
BU graduate researcher is developing alternative swabs in response to the global supply shortage created by the coronavirus pandemic
Sahar Sharifzadeh Joins Early Career Advisory Board
ECE and MSE Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh is one of ten fast-rising researchers appointed to the Early Career Advisory Board of ACS Materials Letters.
Five ECE Faculty are 2020 Spring Research Incubation Awardees
The Hariri Institute for Computing announced their 2020 Spring Research Incubation Awards to faculty who have the potential to define new areas of research; five ECE faculty members are authors or co-authors of these incubation projects.
Q&A: How BU Plans to Test Students, Faculty, and Staff for COVID-19
Klapperich on how self-sampling, robots, and a new lab will help make campus as safe as possible
A Gold Standard Gets a Modern Makeover
Measuring antibiotic resistance in hours
First year MSE PhD student awarded Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship
By Mariana Sánchez Gaona First year MSE PhD candidate Jillian Rix was named Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship 2020 recipient. The Clare Boothe Luce fellowship benefits recipients at the early stages of their graduate studies. According to the Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) program’s website, it is one of the single most significant sources for private support […]
A Bug’s-Eye View
Researchers develop a new camera inspired by insects’ compound eyes
AI-driven robots are making new materials, improving solar cells and other technologies
Professor Keith Brown was featured in an article published by Science on 12/11/19. The following was sourced from Science and written by Robert F. Service. In July 2018, Curtis Berlinguette, a materials scientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, realized he was wasting his graduate student’s time and talent. He had asked her to refine […]