Digital Learning Initiative Announces New Grants
Support for faculty developing online education innovations Helping disadvantaged students is a national goal; BU’s Mark Greenman is testing whether technology can better teach them physics. Could a cousin of the much-heralded MOOC help disadvantaged high school students take college-level classes? That’s what BU’s Mark Greenman and colleagues are test-driving in a project that is […]
BU Satellite Team Gets Big Boost from NASA
Wireless sensors developed by BUSAT to be launched into space In the video above, BU Small Satellite Program students discuss and demonstrate their mini-satellites, which NASA will launch. On March 10, 1989, a solar eruption blasted plasma toward Earth. Canadian utility Hydro-Quebec noticed a hop-skip-and-jump in the voltage on its grid two days later. On […]
Two from BU Cited for Encouraging Women in STEM
Lauded by magazine for their inspiration Elise Morgan (left), a College of Engineering professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering, and Cynthia Brossman, founder and administrative director of BU’s Learning Resource Network (LERNet) are cofounders of BU’s Summer Pathways outreach program. Morgan photo by Cydney Scott; Brossman photo courtesy of Brossman. The average annual […]
Smart Cities
Prof. Azer Bestavros of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science met with Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA) about “smart cities” on September 29. Click to read more
Photonics Center Programs Promote Diversity in STEM Fields
NSF sponsors summer research by undergrads, high-school teachers Lauren Strong (left), with Helen E. Fawcett (GRS’97), an ENG research assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is one of 11 college undergrads participating in a new program funded by the National Science Foundation designed to promote diversity in STEM fields. Photos by Cydney Scott. Lauren Strong, a […]
Gut Reactions
New grants put software to work on bioenergy and human microbiome Daniel Segrè, associate professor of bioinformatics, biomedical engineering and biology, uses mathematical modeling to understand the microbiome. Photo by Cydney Scott. Daniel Segrè studies very unusual microbes. They don’t live in petri dishes, guts, or on dirty kitchen countertops. In fact, they don’t live […]
University Launches Biological Design Center
Chen and Khalil lead synthetic bio team in quest to reengineer building blocks of life to solve societal problems Imagine the state-of-the-art 21st-century life sciences and engineering lab. It would bring together forward-thinking researchers from the hottest fields in bioengineering. These scientists would combine genomic technologies like DNA sequencing and synthesis, 3-D printers, and robots […]
Big Data and Improving Health Care
Data scientist and physician team up to reduce preventable hospitalizations By: Suzanne Jacobs Big Data Meets Healthcare—Bill Adams, a physician and medical informatician, and Yannis Paschalidis, a data scientist and engineer, are working together to use data from electronic health records to reduce preventable hospitalizations and cut health care costs. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Yannis […]