A Laser Focus on Fighting Cancer
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng’s pioneering work on medical imaging technologies is poised to advance cancer diagnosis and treatment, with a pair of projects that use different types of vibrational spectroscopy to improve our understanding of cancer at the cellular and molecular level.
Ramachandran and Paschalidis Named Distinguished Professors
Two ECE faculty members have been named to the second cohort of Term Distinguished Professors of Engineering by the College, in recognition of their superlative record in both their research, and their service to the college.
Missed A Turn? There Might Be a Storm in Space
These days, most people would be lost without their GPS.
Xin Zhang a Guggenheim Fellow
Professor Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) has been awarded a highly prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, in recognition of her exceptional record of research in the fundamental and applied aspects of microelectromechanical systems and metamaterials. Zhang was one of 180 scholars and artists to receive the honor, out of a pool of nearly 2,500 applicants. The […]
BME Senior Design Projects Conference – May 6
BME seniors apply their undergraduate training to real world biomedical challenges. […]
Sharon Garners $4.9 Million to Test Green Home Retrofits
The Department of Energy has awarded the Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation, led by Professor Andre Sharon (MSE, ME), a grant of $4.9 million to demonstrate a super-insulated wall retrofitting process in affordable housing sites across Vermont, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. Sharon’s center is one of seven awardees of a grant aimed at greening the […]
Four Named Term Distinguished Professors of Engineering
Four College of Engineering faculty who are forging new paths in neuroscience, systems engineering, photonics and materials sciences have been named Term Distinguished Professors of Engineering. “These awards recognize the impact of these extraordinary faculty,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen. “The professorships honor not just their visionary research accomplishments, but also their outstanding teaching, and […]
CleanTech Club Unites Students through Technology, Sustainability
Few academic clubs on campus boast a membership ranging from the College of Arts & Sciences to the College of Engineering and the College of Communication to the Questrom School of Business. BU’s CleanTech Club is an exception.
A Simple Test for Viral Detection
Nature Biomedical Engineering has published Assistant Prof. Alex Green’s development of a new test that uses strands of RNA to return a test result. […]
Zhiping Weng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture
To recognize their contributions to engineering and society, Zhiping Weng (’97) is the recipient of the 2022 Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture, and assistant professors Roberto Tron (ME) and Gianluca Stringhini (ECE) have earned this year’s Early Career Research Excellence Awards.