Research Program Helps Bridge the Opportunity Gap for Young Engineers
When Perales came to Boston University to study electrical and biomedical engineering—the first in her family to go to college—she looked for ways to have an immediate impact.
This past year, Perales applied for a BU College of Engineering–affiliated program, Research Engineering and Mentoring-Includes (REM-Includes), designed to give first-generation and low-income college students their first taste of lab time.
Mark Grinstaff Earns NSF Trailblazer Award to Develop New Vaccine Technology
“This award might open up new avenues of treatment that are not available today.”
Converging on Training Tomorrow’s Bioengineers
With an NSF grant, a BU program will train a diverse group of PhD students for tomorrow’s workforce in biotech, synthetic biology, and other sectors.
A New Way of Learning
Undergrads from across the country come to the BU Photonics Center for an NSF summer research experience program. This fall, these five returned to BU full-time.
Three ENG Professors Receive NSF Honors
Michael Economo, Hadi Nia, and Alyssa Pierson received Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance scientific research in their fields. The researchers receiving the awards are also laying the foundation for the next generation of scientists by using the funding to support students and youth educational programs and to diversify STEM. A respected program that is highly competitive, NSF CAREER awards mark a significant achievement for early-career scientists.
Ready to Change the World
At graduation ceremonies, speakers are confident in 2023 class of Societal Engineers
Faculty across five BU research centers will work together to prevent future pandemics
A multidisciplinary team of researchers were awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop models that predict disease emergence and spread, and to devise pandemic mitigation strategies. By Gina Mantica A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Boston University will work towards predicting and preventing future pandemics as part of a new $1 million […]
Three ENG Faculty Named AIMBE Fellows
Three ENG faculty members have been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE): Associate Professor Doug Densmore (ECE, BME), Associate Professor Mo Khalil (BME), and Professor Katherine Zhang (ME, BME, MSE).
Jenny Sun’s Mission to Reveal Mysteries in the Human Body and Improve Healthcare
ECE PhD Student Jenny Sun Wins National Science Foundation Fellowship By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) ECE PhD Candidate Jenny Sun (EE ‘21) received a National Science Foundation Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes outstanding graduate students in NSF- supported engineering and science disciplines. Fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 and a […]
ECE Students Win National Science Foundation Fellowships
Early Career Recognition to Students who Embrace Cross-Disciplinary Research By Amy Pollard (GRS ’19) PhD candidate Alex Matlock (EE ‘21) and Bachelor of Science candidate Anna Stuhlmacher (EE ’17) received National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships. The honor represents NSF’s commitment to research proposed respectively by Matlock and by Stuhlmacher. The fellowship awards a […]