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 […]
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 […]
Alzheimer’s Start-up Gets $1.49 Million from NIH
Collaboration between MED prof, husband Carmela and Menachem Abraham collaborated on a start-up to develop novel therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease. Klogene Therapeutics, Inc., recently won a $1.49 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Carmela Abraham came home one day three years ago from her BU lab, where she has […]
GROWing in the Lab
High school women get hands-on experience in scientific research Delaney Griffiths (left), a senior at Westwood High School, gets some advice about her experiment from mentor Kelsey Williford (MED’21), a neuroscientist, as part of the GROW program, which brings area high school students into BU research labs for the summer. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Delaney […]
SPH Welcomes New Global Health Chair
Patricia Hibberd wants to leverage technology to save young lives When Patricia Hibberd (above) looks at her smartphone, she sees a chance to save young lives. Hibberd, the new chair of the School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health, has been working in Malawi, India, and Pakistan to develop a low-cost thermal imaging system […]
Red Spot, Hot Spot
BU researchers find breakthrough clue in the mystery of Jupiter’s “energy crisis” Luke Moore (left) and James O’Donoghue, research scientists at the Center for Space Physics, study planetary atmospheres. Photo by Cydney Scott. Five hundred miles above the sweep and swirl of Jupiter’s caramel-and-cream clouds lies a mystery. The atmosphere’s top layer, which covers the […]
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 […]
New Tool to Diagnose Zika
BU researcher on team that created prototype for simple new test Dana Braff (ENG’17), one of the lead authors on a Cell paper that describes a prototype for a new Zika diagnostic (photo above). Zika grabbed the world’s attention in late 2015, when scientists in Brazil began to suspect a connection between the virus and […]
BU BioScience Academy Graduates 15
Year of intensive study and internships launch Class of 2016 in new career field View the slideshow to meet the 2016 graduates of BU’s BIoScience Academy certificate program. (Not pictured: Nandita Bhattacharaya). Photos by Cydney Scott. When Jesse Logan applied for a certificate program in applied biotechnology at BU’s BioScience Academy (BSA), she was at loose […]