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.
How Fitbits, Other Bluetooth Devices Make Us Vulnerable to Tracking
BU researchers found that a third-party algorithm can track the location of some Bluetooth devices By Sarah Wells (COM ’18) for BU Today In 2018, nearly 3.7 billion new Bluetooth-enabled devices shipped worldwide to consumers. From phones and speakers to thermostats and fridges, home appliances and personal devices including “wearables” are rapidly becoming more connected […]
Can the Science of Safe Cooking Solve Our Looming PPE Shortage?
ENG prof Greg Blonder’s decontamination method spins off his interest in grilling By Rich Barlow What does barbecue have to do with the looming shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) as COVID-19 spikes again? Quite possibly, the science of safe grilling could make safe cleaning and reuse of PPE the key to arresting dwindling supplies. […]
Wei Xiao Wins 2020 IEEE CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award
By Maya Bhat, CISE Staff Wei Xiao, Boston University PhD candidate (SE), won a 2020 IEEE Conference on Decisions and Control Outstanding Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “Feasibility-Guided Learning for Constrained Optimal Control Problems”. His paper was published in Proc. of 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control on December 18, 2020. This prestigious award […]
Joyce Wong Elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Whether innovating COVID-19 negative pressure isolation tents for hospitals, devising a way to image and treat abdominal surgical adhesions, or creating a method to enhance tissue engineering, Wong has adopted a mindset of innovation.
Joshua Rapp wins the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
By Maureen Stanton Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award. This prestigious award will be presented to Dr. Rapp by IEEE Signal Processing Society President Ahmed Tewfik at the ICASSP 2021 in Toronto, Canada, June 6-11, 2021. Rapp was a student […]
Optical Pioneer Jerome Mertz Is BU’s 2020 Innovator of the Year
The BME professor is a prolific inventor whose innovations have made leaps and bounds in microscopy.