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Lewis wins a 1907 Trailblazer Award for Research on Sleep and Depression
As one of only three winners worldwide, Assistant Professor Laura Lewis was selected for the inaugural award for early career research in neuroscience. More
How Fitbits, Other Bluetooth Devices Make Us Vulnerable to Tracking
BU researchers found that a third-party algorithm can track the location of some Bluetooth devices By Sarah Wells (COM '18) for BU Today In 2018, nearly 3.7... More
Can the Science of Safe Cooking Solve Our Looming PPE Shortage?
ENG prof Greg Blonder’s decontamination method spins off his interest in grilling By Rich Barlow What does barbecue have to do with the looming shortage of personal... More
Wei Xiao Wins 2020 IEEE CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award
By Maya Bhat, CISE Staff Wei Xiao, Boston University PhD candidate (SE), won a 2020 IEEE Conference on Decisions and Control Outstanding Student Paper Award for... More
Joyce Wong Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Whether innovating COVID-19 negative pressure isolation tents for hospitals, devising a way to image and treat abdominal surgical adhesions, or creating a method to enhance tissue engineering, Wong has adopted a mindset of innovation. More
Joshua Rapp wins the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
By Maureen Stanton Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award. This prestigious... More
Optical Pioneer Jerome Mertz Is BU’s 2020 Innovator of the Year
The BME professor is a prolific inventor whose innovations have made leaps and bounds in microscopy. More
New imaging technique uses corners to see around corners
In a new paper published in Nature Communications, ECE Professor Vivek Goyal and his team developed a technique that can map out large-scale scenes around corners with a laser-camera system. More
Coskun receives IBM faculty award
Professor Ayse Coskun earned an IBM Faculty Award to advance her research. More
Converging to Meet Today’s Challenges
The College of Engineering embarks on a bold new strategy to solve some of society’s pressing problems, at a time when meeting those challenges means bringing expertise from many fields together. More
Arrow Electronics Joins EPIC Advisory Board
Arrow Electronics has joined the Engineering Product Innovation Center’s (EPIC) Corporate Advisory Board, providing EPIC with generous financial support, donations of materials and services, and... More
Professor Venkatesh Saligrama Named 2021 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
ECE Professor Venkatesh Saligrama is climbing the ranks of a premier professional organization, and has been selected as a 2021-22 IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer. More
Morgan Named First Maysarah K. Sukkar Professor of Engineering Design & Innovation
ENG alumnus Malek Sukkar (MFG ’92) has established the College’s first endowed professorship. More
Fall 2020 ECE grad students’ successes
PhD students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have had a successful year in the wake of many challenges. Here is an update on some of their most notable accomplishments. More
WATCH: Protecting the BU Bubble from COVID-19
A reminder to the BU community: It is critical that we maintain our campuswide COVID plan: Protecting the BU bubble. More
Nature Communications publishes Ramachandran article
Professor Siddharth Ramachandran and ECE student Aaron Greenberg co-authored an article in Nature Communications More
Klapperich Changing Boston for the Better
Named in Boston Business Journal’s List of 50 Leaders Making a Difference Catherine Klapperich and her team built a robust COVID-19 testing program with the capacity to test... More
Published in SCIENCE: What are the Physical Hallmarks of Cancer?
Assistant Professor Hadi Nia has published a first-authored review paper in SCIENCE on the physical traits of cancer. More
Klapperich Elected to BBJ’s Power 50 for 2020
Prof. Catherine Klapperich is included in the Boston Business Journal’s 2020 list "Extraordinary Year, Extraordinary People: Boston Business Journal's Power 50." More
BU’s Secret Weapon Against COVID-19
Professor Densmore is the lead PI of DAMP Lab, which designs and creates the means to process molecular and biomedical materials quickly, accurately, and in large numbers, using robots. More