Meet the Newest MSE Career Award Winners
Wanzheng Hu Photo courtesy of Hu In September 2017, physicist Wanzheng Hu moved from Germany to the United States to begin teaching at BU, despite having never stepped foot in the US before. She has since established the Hu lab, which focuses on the interaction between light and quantum materials. With her NSF CAREER award […]
Manuel Egele Earns NSF CAREER Award
Professor Manuel Egele received a National Science Foundation Career Award for a project that will be investigating the Internet of Things (IoT).
Better, Simpler Detection
New lidar-on-a-chip could make building autonomous cars much easier
Innovate@BU’s Summer Accelerator Goes Virtual
Venture program wrapped last week with pitches to investors
Cheng Wins Grant to Continue Breakthrough Imaging Research
He received a Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award for $2.9 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health.
VIDEO: Watch These 3D-Printed Nasal Swab Prototypes Take Form
BU graduate researcher is developing alternative swabs in response to the global supply shortage created by the coronavirus pandemic
Meet BU’s Newest NSF CAREER Award Winners
National Science Foundation funding will advance researchers working on cybersecurity, number theory, superconductors, and more
Emerging Soft Robotics Research
Unlike traditional robotics, soft robotics have unmatched levels of flexibility and adaptability — and BU mechanical engineering is at the forefront. Learn about soft robotics in this discussion between Professor Alice White and Assistant Professors Sheila Russo and Tommaso Ranzani.
Professor Robert Gray Named 2020 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Recipient
The IEEE Information Theory Society has honored BU ECE Research Professor Robert M. Gray with the 2020 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award. The Wyner Award is given in recognition of an individual’s outstanding leadership in, and exceptional service to, the Information Theory community over a substantial period of time.
Anti-Racism in Action
A student’s outrage prompts publisher to remove traditionally used racist language phrasings from engineering textbooks