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 […]
Someday, You’ll Have Supercomputing in Your Hand
ENG prof advised US government on developing exascale computing Roscoe Giles testified before Congress in 2013 as an advisor to Uncle Sam on developing the next generation of supercomputers. Photo (left) courtesy of Roscoe Giles. Some time ago, Roscoe Giles gave a talk to BU computer scientists where he used his iPad 3—a handheld, aging […]
Cybersecurity Experts Go to Washington
Sharon Goldberg briefs Congressional staffers on internet insecurities Expert panelists at a recent Capitol Hill cybersecurity briefing sponsored by BU and the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus: FTC Office of Technology, Research, and Investigation research director Joseph Calandrino (from left), Center for Democracy & Technology chief technologist Joseph Lorenzo Hall, and Sharon Goldberg, a CAS associate professor […]
The Other 95%: The Unsecure Internet You Don’t Know About
Boston University Provost Jean Morrison and honorary co-hosts the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus hosted an illuminating panel discussion with leading researchers, policymakers, and government officials on the true breadth of Internet insecurity and what can (or can’t) be done to fix it. Speakers: Sharon Goldberg, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University Joseph Hall, Chief Technologist, Center for Democracy & Technology […]