Four ENG Professors Receive CAREER Awards
Assistant Professors Brian Walsh, Michelle Sander, Sahar Sharifzadeh and Lei Tian have all received Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation.
Christopher Chen and 2 BME Affiliate Professors Receive BU’s Highest Faculty Honor
BME is represented in three of this year’s four new William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors. Chris Chen, Mike Hasselmo, and Ann McKee have been recognized among the University’s most distinguished faculty. The award is the highest distinction bestowed upon senior faculty members who remain actively involved in research, scholarship, teaching, and the University’s civic life.
3 BME Professors Receive BU’s Highest Faculty Honor
3 Primary or Affiliated BME Faculty are among the four new William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors: Chris Chen, Mike Hasselmo, and Ann McKee. Named in honor of BU’s first president, the William Fairfield Warren Professorships were established in 2008 to recognize BU’s most distinguished faculty. The award is the highest distinction bestowed upon senior faculty […]
Ramachandran named 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by DoD
Ramachandran received the Department of Defense’s most prestigious award for a single investigator and will explore an optical phenomena: the existence of light beams that, instead of streaming in a straight line, swirl downward like a spiral staircase.
Professor Alexander Sergienko (ECE) Receives Durable Equipment (DURIP) Award for Quantum Communication Research
Modern communication relies on complex and nuanced technologies but the future is quantum communications. In his endeavors to bring communication to the future, Professor Alexander Sergienko (ECE) received a Durable Equipment (DURIP) Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). This award is a recognition of his efforts to develop devices for efficient […]
Christopher Chen Receives University’s Highest Faculty Honor
This year’s other awardees are Anne McKee, a School of Medicine professor of neurology and pathology, Michael Hasselmo, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Ha Jin (GRS’94), a CAS professor of creative writing.
Inside the Mind (and Heart) of the Societal Engineer
At its core, the Societal Engineer is someone who uses an engineering education to build a better world through teamwork and innovation. In the decade since Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen introduced this idea to the college, students have embraced and demonstrated the ideals of the Societal Engineer through their academic, extracurricular and professional careers.
Professor Christopher Chen Presents DeLisi Distinguished Lecture
Professor Christopher S. Chen (BME, MSE), recipient of the 2019 Charles DeLisi Award and Distinguished Lecture, presented “How Complex is Simple Enough? Engineering 3D Culture Models of Physiology and Disease” on April 1. The award recognizes faculty members with extraordinary records of well-cited scholarship and outstanding alumni who have invented and mentored transformative technologies that impact quality of life.
What If We Could Stop Lung Cancer Before It Starts?
BU and Johnson & Johnson Innovation alliance discovers why an immune system boost could prevent lung cancer By Sara Rimer in BU Today Genomic differences related to the immune system may play a key role in the early development of lung cancer. That finding, published April 23, 2019, in Nature Communications, reveals potential for developing […]
Friday, May 3rd: BME Senior Design Project Conference
BME 2019 Senior Design Project Conference on Friday, 5/3 Images from our 2018 Conference Join us for ideas, innovation and inspiration! All are invited. The 2019 conference will be held in BU’s Photonics Center and is attended by students, faculty and alumni as well as representatives from area companies, laboratories and hospitals. Working with BME […]