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Newly Appointed Materials Science Engineering Faculty
Welcome to our newly appointed faculty members! Read below to find out about their research interests, their primary appointments and what they are delving into at... More
Ji-Xin Cheng Delivers 2024 DeLisi Lecture
The cutting-edge imaging techniques developed by Cheng have advanced the field and are in use in labs and clinics around the globe. More
Professor Cheng Receives Spectrochemical Analysis Award
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng has been named the recipient of this year’s American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award. More
Pioneering Pathways
"We need everyone — not just women — to contribute to addressing problems in women’s health." More
Opening Doors
Rhonda Harrison (ENG’98,’04, GRS’04), CEO of Biopharmix Consulting, is working to foster diversity in STEM workplaces and to inspire students. More
The Bold World of Marcus Wachira
Wachira's ENG studies helped him flesh out the technological scaffolding of the sci-fi devices in his new book, which reached a top-20 list on Amazon. More
Bridge Collapse Creates Conversation in BU Structural Mechanics Class
When you teach a college course that’s a mechanical engineering advanced elective called ME309-Structural Mechanics, the shocking collapse of a 47-year-old bridge makes for some pretty interesting classroom discussion. More
Professor Wenchao Li Earns NSF CAREER Award
Professor Li’s project aims to overcome fundamental challenges in Imitation Learning for AI systems. More
Bringing the Brain Into Focus
Professor Tianyu Wang receives grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative for reinventing a quantum-inspired light source to improve deep-tissue imaging. More
Ji-Xin Cheng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture
Ji-Xin Cheng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture Rabia Yazicigil earns Early Career Research Excellence Award In recognition of their contributions to engineering and society, the Moustakas Chair... More
“The Hub of the Robotics Universe”
RASTIC is a state-of-the-art facility where students can design, build, and test a range of robotic solutions to real-world problems More
Moustakas Garners Optica’s Holonyak Award
The distinguished professor of photonics and optoelectronics revolutionized the semiconductor field. More
Big Award for Bold Plans in 3D Printing
The grant will enable Boley to accelerate the discovery and fabrication of advanced 3D printing inks. More
Early Career Excellence: Professor Rabia Yazicigil Recognized By NSF and BU College of Engineering
Professor Rabia Yazicigil’s outstanding contributions have been doubly recognized, with the recent conferral of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Early Career Excellence in Research Award from the BU College of Engineering. More
University hiring must be centrally organized around convergence
Today there is no disagreement that the considerable challenges facing humanity can only be addressed by bringing together expertise from across the academic disciplines. From decarbonizing economies to harnessing AI for the good of society, solutions will require unprecedented levels of creativity and interconnection of traditionally distinct disciplines – which, following others (mostly in STEM fields), I refer to as “convergence”. More
Why do some vaccines protect some individuals and not others?
Tomic and her team are leveraging a more effective method and significantly reducing the waiting period for new vaccines More
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng receives SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng is the recipient of the 2024 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award. He earned this prestigious award for the “invention and commercialization of mid-infrared photothermal microscopy that allows highly sensitive dye-free bond-selective imaging of living cells and organisms.” The mIRage system, based on Cheng’s IP on mid-infrared photothermal microscopy and produced by Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp at Santa Barbara, has been delivered to over 100 research labs in 15 countries worldwide. More
Hadi Nia Earns a Sloan Research Fellowship
Sloan Research Fellows have the “potential to revolutionize their fields of study.” More
FDA Clears Bigio’s Tech for Skin Cancer Detection
Is that an innocent mole or skin cancer? An optical technique pioneered by Irving Bigio could cut the number of missed cancers in half. More
High Performance From BU ECE At SC23
BU ECE researchers, both faculty and students, made a major impact at SC23, the premier conference in high-performance computing. More