ENERGIZE NRT: Training the Next Generation of Energy Innovators
Climate change is one of the greatest problems facing humanity. Hariri Institute talks with ENERGIZE NRT CoPIs Emily Ryan (Engineering) and David Coker (Chemistry) to explore how this new BU interdisciplinary program is tackling this challenge head-on. By Maeve Smillie The escalating frequency and severity of extreme weather events like record-breaking heat waves, devastating wildfires, […]
New England Research Cloud’s Affordable Production Cloud Services Now Available to General Research and Education Users
By Alex Grzybowski, Hariri Institute for Computing The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance announced the opening of the New England Research Cloud (NERC) to general research and education users. The NERC is a production cloud, operated by BU and Harvard Research IT, that supports VMs, containers, S3 storage, and an AI as a service platform. NERC […]
Hariri Institute publishes FY23 Annual Report
By Hariri Institute Staff The Hariri Institute is pleased to announce the release of our FY23 Annual Report! The report highlights the many significant and impactful accomplishments of our multidisciplinary community, consisting of 400 faculty affiliates and including thought leaders, problem solvers, scholars, and pioneers. They are leveraging the full power of computing, computational, and […]
Chuanfei Dong Receives DOE Early Career Research Award
Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliate Chuanfei Dong is working to untangle the mysteries of plasma, and his efforts were recently recognized with a prestigious award from the US Department of Energy (DOE). Dong, an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University, is among 93 scientists selected by the DOE for […]
BU Dark Matter Researcher Wins Award to Drive “Extraordinary Contributions” to Experimental Physics
Dark matter might be one of the most important substances in the universe—the glue that stops stars flying away from each other and ripping galaxies apart. It’s also one of the most mysterious. It’s proven so stubbornly hard to see that researchers can only guess at its existence. Boston University physicist and Hariri Institute faculty […]
Tereasa Brainerd Elected Fellow of the American Astronomical Society
By Hariri Institute Staff Tereasa Brainerd, professor of astronomy at the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the largest professional organization of astronomers in the USA. Inductions into each class of Fellows is limited to at most 0.5% of the membership in any […]
$1.1 Million Awarded to Joint Study on Impacts of Data Centers in Norway’s Clean Energy Transition
As Norway strives to position itself as a hub for global digital infrastructure—building data centers for cloud storage and processing—questions about the benefits and tradeoffs of digitalization are being brought to the forefront of its sustainability policy. Now, through a government-backed initiative, the Research Council of Norway has awarded more than $1.1 million in funding […]
Three Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliates Receive NSF CAREER Awards
By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Hariri Institute Faculty Affiliates Renato Mancuso (CAS, Computer Science), Hadi Nia (ENG, Biomedical Engineering), and Alyssa Pierson (ENG, Mechanical Engineering) have each received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. These NSF grants are among the most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic […]
Smart Technology: Open Source and Equitable
Faculty Spotlight: Christos Cassandras By Margo Stanton, Hariri Institute of Computing Between 2012 and 2017, the number of car accidents in Boston rose by 33%. Depending on the year, 25% to 31% of all reported accidents in Boston resulted in non-fatal injuries. Christos Cassandras, a distinguished professor of engineering and head of the division of […]
Faculty across five BU research centers work together to prevent future pandemics
A multidisciplinary team of researchers were awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop models that predict disease emergence and spread, and to devise pandemic mitigation strategies. BY GINA MANTICA A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Boston University will work towards predicting and preventing future pandemics as part of a new $1 million […]