SE Alumnus, Haining Yu, Member of Disney Team Awarded 2017 INFORMS Prize
Congratulations to Haining Yu (SE PhD, 2005 – Advisor: Christos Cassandras) who was a member of the Disney Team awarded the 2017 INFORMS Prize! INFORMS, the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals, announced that both the U.S. Air Force and The Walt Disney Company have received the 2017 INFORMS Prize for their […]
Symposium Will Highlight Multidisciplinary Work in Biological Design
The ENG Biological Design Center Kickoff Symposium and Charles Cantor Lecture at the Questrom School of Business June 1 marked the center’s official opening, with a lunch and poster session at the new Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering. Bioinformatics doctoral candidates David Bray (ENG’22) (left) and William Hackett (ENG’23) reflect on the electronic […]
ECE Students Win National Science Foundation Fellowships
Early Career Recognition to Students who Embrace Cross-Disciplinary Research By Amy Pollard (GRS ’19) PhD candidate Alex Matlock (EE ‘21) and Bachelor of Science candidate Anna Stuhlmacher (EE ’17) received National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. The honor represents NSF’s commitment to research proposed respectively by Matlock and by Stuhlmacher. The fellowship awards a […]
BME Director Wins Prestigious University Award
Matthew Barber, the Director of the Biomedical Engineering Department has won the prestigious John S. Perkins Award for Distinguished Service. This award is given annually to Boston University staff members that have demonstrated both outstanding and honorable service to the University community. Matthew Barber is invaluable to the BME community and proves his dedication each and […]
Nobel Laureate Coming to BUnano Annual Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Nobel Laureate, Stefan Hell May 2, 2017 The Trustee Ballroom at Boston University One Silber Way BUnano will hold its inaugural Annual Symposium on May 2, 2017. The symposium will feature the keynote presentation by 2014 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, Stefan Hell. Professor Hell is the Director of the Max Planck Institute […]
ENG Gains Highest-Ever Ranking in US News’ Graduate Programs List
By Michael Seele The College of Engineering and several of its programs advanced and saw improved peer assessment scores in the latest US News & World Report rankings of the nation’s graduate engineering programs, released this week. US News now places the College 34th among the 198 engineering schools with graduate programs that it ranked. […]
It Takes Teamwork
New Interdisciplinary Research Center will Focus on Making Diagnostics Smart and Portable By Sara Cody The road to commercializing medical technology is usually long, requiring the work of basic scientists, clinical researchers, engineers and eventually industry partners, with one group passing along knowledge to the next until a marketable version of the technology is finally […]
Catapult Challenge Winners Announced
By Sara Cody College of Engineering Kenneth R. Lutchen presented the top finishers in the inaugural Tinker Catapult Challenge with their prizes at a recent event in the Binoy K. Singh Imagineering Laboratory. Fifteen teams of undergraduate students participated in the contest. The challenge took place over two days. The contest was open to the BU […]
Novel Hydroponic Garden Design Takes Top Prize in Imagineering Competition
By Sara Cody Growing up on an organic farm in Hawaii, Summer Mundon (ME’17) was exposed to sustainable agriculture at an early age. When it came time to design a product for the Sixth Annual Imagineering Competition, which invites undergraduates to submit extracurricular projects that showcase their creativity and entrepreneurial capabilities for a chance to […]
BU Paves Way for MED Prof’s $10M Plus Partnership with Industry
Major pharma company supports Avi Spira’s COPD, lung cancer research By Sara Rimer, BU Today As a pulmonary physician scientist, Avi Spira is driven to get his breakthroughs in molecular biomarkers for the early diagnosis of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) into clinical care. “I’m a doctor, I want to help people,” […]