Meet BU’s Newest Engineers to be Named AAAS Fellows
Excerpts from an article by Jessica Colarossi for The Brink Uday Pal turns moon dust into oxygen, and Catherine Klapperich develops disease diagnostics for low-resource communities Each year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recognizes scientists who have made major contributions to their fields of expertise. As the chaotic and uncertain year […]
Society For Biomaterials Honors Professor Joyce Wong
Professor Joyce Wong received the prestigious 2020 Clemson Award for Basic Research. The award acknowledges an original and outstanding contribution to the basic knowledge and understanding of the interaction between materials and tissue.
Accessible autonomous vehicle system wins semifinalist position in DOT competition
By Alex LaSalvia As the promise of self-driving cars inches closer to reality for the general public, how do we ensure this technology is accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired? That’s the question that ECE Assistant Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar and his team seek to answer with their OpenGuide project. The project has […]
New Frontiers in Self-driving Cars
Goyal Research Team Breaks Conventions, Develops Novel 3D Imaging Methods Designed for the Real World LIDAR, used in most self-driving cars, models the world around them by creating 3D representations of a scene in view. Photo by John D. SL/Shutterstock By Maureen Stanton, CISE One of the most promising developments born out of the 2005 […]
New Robotics & Autonomous Systems Master’s Draws Strong Interest
Students, companies eager to participate By Michael Seele Start a new master’s degree program, put together a curriculum, and recruit students less than a year before classes begin. Then add in a global pandemic that sends most students away from campus and forces faculty to re-conceptualize how they deliver instruction. Despite these challenges, the master’s […]
Klapperich, Pal Named AAAS Fellows
By Patrick L. Kennedy Two College of Engineering faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE, ME) and Professor Uday Pal (ME, MSE) were selected for extraordinary achievements in their fields by the AAAS Council. The nonprofit […]
Advancing Corporate-Academic Partnerships
The College of Engineering recognizes it has entered an era motivating, more than ever before, mutually beneficial partnerships between biomedical industry and academia. Ideally, companies can align with academic partners along three key axes: technology translation; corporate-university research; and ensuring a maximally valued future workforce, one prepared for the most recent emerging techniques.
Banning Trump from Social Media Makes Sense. But Beware the Downside
By Jessica Colarossi, for The Brink After a shocking day in American history when a violent mob, incited by President Trump, stormed and breached the Capitol Building, Facebook and Twitter temporarily banned the president from using their platforms. On Thursday morning, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went a step further, announcing Trump will be banned from Facebook’s […]
Imaging technique solves long standing mystery in fighting fungal infections
By Alex LaSalvia Fungal infections are estimated to be currently affecting nearly a billion people around the world, with severity ranging from asymptomatic to life threatening. Battling these infections is one of the most important public health challenges today, and the medication amphotericin B (AmB) is a powerful first line of defense against dangerous fungi. […]
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.