Robot Boats and Drug Subs
ENG prof and students developing autonomous boats to find drug traffickers 09.28.2017 By David Levin. Video by Devin Hahn Originally published in BU Today In 2016, US antidrug agents intercepted a strange vessel off the California coast: a homemade fiberglass submarine. Inside, the small craft was packed to the brim with 12,800 pounds of cocaine, […]
Neurophotonics Center: Advancing Understanding of the Brain
New BU entity will have faculty from both campuses By Mike Seele, originally published in BU Today on 5/12/17 The understanding of the human brain has leaped forward in recent years, with the help of the emerging field of neurophotonics, a noninvasive, light-based technology that allows scientists to study the brain’s functioning in real time. Boston University has […]
New Kilachand Center Links Key Research Disciplines
Discoveries will be fueled by collaboration and a record $115 million gift By BU Today staff. Photos by Janice Checchio. Originally published on 9/14/17 With a powerful boost from the largest gift in its history, Boston University on Thursday officially opened the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, a state-of-the-art research facility that brings together […]
Douglas Densmore named top-five innovator in DAC’s Under 40 Awards
By Amy Pollard (GRS ’19) The Design Automation Conference names the top 5 young, global innovators in the field of electronic design automation (EDA). This year, Associate Professor Douglas Densmore is one of two academic researchers to receive the honor. Densmore’s primary appointment is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a founding […]
Zhang wins $1.7M grant to study diabetic arteries
By Liz Sheeley Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in the U.S. and diabetics are two to four times more likely to have heart disease or a stroke than non-diabetics. For the past seven years, Associate Professor Katherine Yanhang Zhang (ME, BME, MSE) has been working under a National Institutes of Health (NIH) […]
Kilachand Center Hosts Inaugural Symposium
Daylong event celebrates “nexus of life sciences and engineering” By Barbara Moran, BU Research When Ahmad “Mo” Khalil explains his work to an audience, he likes to play a movie. The 30-second bit of film—famous in some circles—shows a white blood cell chasing a bacterium, winding its way around obstacles, hunting its prey with what seems like relentless, single-minded […]
Sahar Sharifzadeh Wins U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award
Career Development Awards Go to Seven Junior Faculty
Professorships will support research ranging from education to technology and nanomaterials by Joel Brown, BU Today Since arriving at BU a year ago, Travis Bristol, a School of Education assistant professor of curriculum and teaching, has been immersed in teaching and in researching the roles of race and gender in education, particularly policies and practices aimed […]
Dunlop receives Young Investigator Award
by Liz Sheeley Assistant Professor Mary Dunlop (BME) is the 2017 recipient of the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes the contributions of scientists who have made a major impact on the field of synthetic biology, early on in their careers. “It is a great honor to receive the ACS Synthetic Biology Young […]
Prof. Douglas Holmes works on “slender structures”
What can engineers learn from observing the physics of a slinky? The popular toy is just one example of an object that inspired BU professor Douglas Holmes (ME, MSE) to find ways to harness instability for advanced functions. According to Prof. Holmes, these “slender structures”- next generation materials that bend or warp – will involve […]