Q&A with Masha Kamenetska
BU assistant professor of physics, chemistry, and materials science and engineering wins prestigious $450,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research The Air Force Office of Scientific Research received 290 proposals for its Young Investigator Research Program and recently announced it was awarding $13.9 million in grants to 31 scientists and engineers. […]
How Bad Drugs Turn Treatable Diseases Deadly
Low-quality and counterfeit antibiotics drive drug-resistant infections By Art Jahnke Muhammad Zaman learned at an early age that one did not shop for medicine at the convenient neighborhood pharmacy. In Pakistan, where he grew up, the safer thing to do was walk the extra mile to a pharmacy whose drugs were known to be high […]
Q&A with National Academy of Inventors Fellow Prof. Vinod Sarin
BU materials scientist, who says nature gives him some of the best ideas for new technologies, has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors
Three ENG Professors Named IEEE Fellows
Professors David Castañón (ECE, SE), Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) and Venkatesh Saligrama (ECE, SE) have been named Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology.
No Obstacle Too Steep for BU’s First Mitchell Scholar
Award will send ENG student to study public policy in Ireland Rachel Petherbridge (ENG’19) has won a George J. Mitchell Scholarship to study in Ireland next year, the first BU student to be chosen for the award. 12.18.2018 via BU Today By Megan Woolhouse Photos by Cydney Scott Biomedical engineering may be one of the […]
How Bad Drugs Turn Treatable Diseases Deadly
Low-quality and counterfeit antibiotics drive drug-resistant infections By Art Jahnke Muhammad Zaman learned at an early age that one did not shop for medicine at the convenient neighborhood pharmacy. In Pakistan, where he grew up, the safer thing to do was walk the extra mile to a pharmacy whose drugs were known to be high […]
Tinker Catapult Challenge: Ready, Aim, Release!
Video by Aaron Hwang (ENG’21). Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM’19) When you think of catapults, the first image that comes to mind is either the ancient Greeks, who invented the projectile weapon, medieval castles under siege—or if you’re a Monty Python fan, a catapulted cow in mid-flight. But as several College of Engineering students recently […]
ECE’s Role in BRAIN Science
You may have heard the saying, “humans only use 10% of their brains,” and although this myth has been widely disproven, our understanding of the complex nature and functionalities of the human brain only goes so far. With nearly 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections, the human brain is still one of the greatest […]
How Cells Remember
In new research published in Cell, Assistant Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil, graduate student Minhee Park and colleagues engineered a fully synthetic epigenetic system to better understand, study, and control its behaviors. Using synthetic biology, they constructed molecular modules that mimic features of natural epigenetic systems and found that they were able to induce epigenetic activities in mammalian cells, such as storing cellular memory.
$3.3M Awarded to ENG Researchers under NIH BRAIN Initiative
Their research proposal has three specific aims, but overall plans to deliver a systematic understanding of the effects of a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, ultrasound neuromodulation.