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Biomaterials Lab Beefs Up with Mass. Life Sciences Grant
The state funds will help BU BME students gain the up-to-date lab experience they need to land internships and jobs. More
Another Year of Gold for BU iGEM
A year-end toast to the gold-winning undergrads of BU's iGEM team. More
The Five Most Viewed ENG Research Stories of 2025
The College of Engineering faculty and students were busy in 2025 creating and advancing high impact research, from quantum semi-conductors to space age polymers to portable MRI devices and landing a telescope on the moon. More
Pictures of RNA in Unprecedented Detail
The new imaging method takes advantage of the sophisticated ways in which cells control mRNAs. More
Out of the Lab, Into the World
Collaborating across BU to image brain activity in the everyday. More
The Uses of Invention
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng Elected NAI Fellow. More
“Our Work’s Not Done”
An alum's nonprofit saves women's lives through medical equipment donations. More
Professor Ted de Winter
How do you measure the impact of an engineering teacher ? Especially for a teacher who taught for 50 years. For Professor Theo (Ted) de Winter, the teaching of engineering was his passion and raison d'être. de Winter, who passed away on October 17, 2025, at the age of 93, began teaching as an adjunct professor at Boston University in 1963, even before the College of Engineering was formed. Ted is survived by his wife of 34 years, BU engineering professor Stormy Attaway, and his dog Hamish. He is also survived by his sister, two brothers, three daughters, ten grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. More
10 Ways BU Researchers Could Revolutionize Cancer Care
These innovative, potentially lifesaving projects could transform cancer prevention, treatment, and care. More
Quantum Analysis Paper Earns Accolades from Top Journal
Professor Luca Dal Negro's joint paper in Physical Review B was selected as an Editor's Suggestion. More
Liangliang Hao Wins Innovation Award for Research into Lung Disease
Assistant Professor Liangliang Hao (BME) received the Innovation Award from the American Lung Association for her research project titled Developing Innovative Early Detection Test for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a serious lung disease that is relatively understudied. The ALA’s Innovation Award is intended to support highly promising investigators with stellar track records of accomplishment, who have the potential to advance the field of lung disease science. More
With New Technology and Innovative Treatments, BU Cancer Research Is Saving Lives
The inventions of ENG and other BU researchers are being used to help prevent and treat cancer right now. More
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. More
BU Engineers Are Helping to Bring Semiconductor Production Back to the US
Ayse Coskun highlights chip technology research at BU. More
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. More
Batmanghelich, Ohn-Bar Earn NSF CAREER Awards
The award will propel the research of rising stars in ECE. More
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. More
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. More
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. More
Recent ENG PhD Helps Develop Highly Sensitive Imaging Technique to Detect Myelin Damage
In a new study from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and BU’s College of Engineering, researchers used a special microscope called birefringence microscopy (BRM) paired with an automated deep learning algorithm to reliably count and map myelin damage across whole sections of the brain—something not feasible with other techniques. The ability to image and measure damage to myelin will lead to better understanding the patterns and extent that occurs with disease, injury and normal aging. More