Dean Announces First Faculty to Earn New Awards for Lab Equipment
“The quality of the research that these inaugural infrastructure awards will support is incredible.”
Rocks and Rope, Strengthened by Seeds
A MacGyver-like post-disaster repair job that gets a boost from biology.
Awards for Convergent Research Tackling Biggest Challenges in Life Sciences
“Convergent teams are advancing fundamental discoveries and catalyzing transformational progress.”
Dunlop, Holmes, and Stringhini Earn ENG Honors
The awards recognize the mid-career faculty members’ contributions to research and teaching.
It Looks Loopy, But It Works
Loops of string make rock piles stand tall in study by Holmes and Guerra By Patrick L. Kennedy Say a missile or an earthquake has just damaged your apartment building. Stone rubble litters the street. Must you wait for the Army Corps of Engineers to arrive, clear away the rubble, and rebuild the blasted wall? […]
These Soft Robotic Grippers Were Inspired by an Ancient Japanese Art Form
Douglas Holmes, BU PhD student Yi Yang and alum Katie Vella explain how they were inspired a traditional Japanese art of paper cutting (cousin of origami paper-folding art), to design soft robotic grippers. Their work was published in in Science Robotics.