Bionic Pancreas Passes Critical Science Hurdle
$12M from NIH moves ENG prof’s device forward ENG’s Edward Damiano with the prototype bionic pancreas he’s been working on for almost 17 years. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. On the heels of winning $12 million in supplemental funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct a major, multicenter, national clinical trial of his […]
Tackling the Wage Gap with Code
Hariri software team aids Boston Women’s Workforce Council Hariri Institute director Azer Bestavros at a City Hall press conference on the Boston Women’s Workforce Council wage gap report earlier this month, flanked by Katie Conboy, Simmons College provost (from left), former Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, and Eddie Ahmed, MassMutual Financial […]
BU and Red Hat Forge $5 Million Partnership
Five-year research arrangement promises mutual benefits President Robert A. Brown (right) and Paul Cormier, Red Hat executive vice president and president, products and technologies, at a dinner celebrating the partnership between BU and Red Hat, held at Sloane House January 23. Brown gave Cormier a gift to commemorate the new partnership. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. […]
BU Expands Boston Community Service Award Program
Scholarships open to transfers who graduated from city’s public schools Rosy Chen (ENG’17) and both of her sisters have benefited from the Community Service Award program. It’s “the main reason why I’m at BU,” says the computer engineering major. Photo by Cydney Scott. Boston University has deepened its commitment to the city of Boston by […]
A Better Way to Treat Burns from BU’s Grinstaff Lab
Less painful for patients, eliminates need for anesthetizing children Mark Grinstaff and members of his lab, among them Marlena Konieczynska, have developed a new hydrogen gel that could eliminate the need to anesthetize children for burn dressing changes. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. For patients with second-degree burns, it’s not always the initial injury that hurts […]
Bucking Trends, BU Outside Funding Continues to Rise
Team behind the scenes keeps the money coming in Amy Lieberman, an SED assistant professor of deaf studies, says BU “made it clear that my research was going to be valued and supported here. It’s a big part of the reason I came.” Photo by Cydney Scott. The chart of United States R&D funding, as […]
BU Researchers Get State-of-the-Art MRI Scanner
$1.6 million from NSF for centerpiece of new Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging The Siemens 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner will be housed within the new Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering building, on BU’s Charles River Campus. Photo courtesy of Siemens Healthineers. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Boston University researchers $1.6 […]
Gifts Endow Three New Career Development Professorships
Awards go to Questrom, CAS, and ENG junior faculty Jessica Simes, a CAS assistant professor of sociology, who studies incarceration and race, has been awarded the first University Provost’s Career Development Professorship. Photo (right) by Cydney Scott. When Jessica Simes was an undergraduate at Occidental College, she was captivated by issues of race and privilege in […]
A Point of Light
BU researcher creates images from single photons It’s difficult to capture clear photos in low light. One BU engineering professor thinks he may have solved the problem. Photo by tolokonov/iStock When you take a photo on a cloudy day with your average digital camera, the sensor detects trillions of photons. Photons, the elementary particles of […]
Engineering Dean Named to NSF Engineering Panel
Joins leaders from academia and industry who provide advice on support for research, education Kenneth R. Lutchen, dean of the Boston University College of Engineering. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Kenneth R. Lutchen, dean of Boston University College of Engineering, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee for Engineering, a panel of […]