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 […]
Linda Hyman to Serve One-Year Term as Director of NSF Division of Molecular & Cellular Biosciences
Beginning September 14, Linda Hyman, PhD, Associate Provost for Graduate Medical Sciences (GMS), will be ‘on loan’ to the National Science Foundation (NSF) to serve as Director of the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences. The Division comprises the areas of molecular biophysics, cellular dynamics and functions, genetic mechanisms and systems, and synthetic biology. Her […]
Math Neuroscience Prof Wins NSF CAREER Award
Mark Kramer explores brain mechanisms behind epileptic seizures By Sara Rimer Mark Kramer is the third member of BU’s mathematics and statistics department to win an NSF CAREER award in the past five years. Photo by Vernon Doucette. Mark Kramer, an associate professor of mathematical neuroscience in Boston University’s College of Arts & Sciences, has […]
In Defense of Wide Hips
MED prof: a wide pelvis doesn’t mean you can’t be an efficient runner By: Kate Becker Kristi Lewton, a MED assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology, is looking to our primate relatives to understand the forces that have shaped the human pelvis over time. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. What can you learn from a pelvis? […]
Charles River Campus Has 21 New Full Professors
Movin’ on up in five colleges Faculty from five BU schools on the Charles River Campus have been promoted to full professor. Photo by Robert Dolan. Beholding creation, Christopher Schneider longs to understand the forces—evolution, environment, history—that have woven the astounding tapestry of living things. He researches how animal ecology acts with those forces in […]
NSF CAREER Award Goes to ENG Prof
Thin rod study has potential for smart needles, robotic arms ENG’s Douglas Holmes will receive $500,000 over the next five years to study the mechanics of how thin rods move through tissue and other soft, fragile media. Photo courtesy of the College of Engineering. Thin rods and other active materials that can bend and fold […]
Five Thousand Heads Are Better Than One
What ants teach us about the evolution, anatomy, and chemistry of social brain James Traniello doesn’t like to play favorites. For almost 40 years, Traniello, a professor of biology at Boston University, has devoted his life to the study of ants, investigating their extraordinary social lives. And like a father describing his children, he finds […]
Turkey: Picturing a Long-Gone Citadel
Was a Bronze Age city in Turkey abandoned because of climate change or fire? In the Late Bronze Age, the walls of the citadel at Kaymakçı rose 10 feet above the jagged bedrock surrounding it. Behind the fortification was a community of homes, workshops, roads, plazas, and great halls. The neighboring residences and cemeteries surrounding […]
Diverse Disciplines Team Up for Neuroscience
NSF grant for new BU initiative will help bring data together Michael Hasselmo wants to link neuroscience data from many fields. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Neuroscience is changing fast. Increasingly powerful imaging now allows researchers to scan brain structures with exquisite detail and make surprising discoveries about how neurons grow, interact, and die. At the […]
Designing an Intelligent Urban Ecosystem
BU leads collaboration to make public services “smarter” Boston could benefit from “smart” traffic lights moving traffic efficiently, safer bike paths, and other improved services that BU is hoping to develop through a new online platform. Graphic by Rob Colonna. BU faculty, with help from business and government partners, will develop cloud computing–based services and […]