November 5, 2025 – BUnano Faculty Prof. David Bishop was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize from the American Physical Society. The Society acknowledged Prof. Bishop’s groundbreaking experiments that uncovered the role of vortices in the superfluid phase transition in helium films and observed anyonic braiding statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional […]
October, 2025: BUnano Faculty Prof. Chris Chen elected to the National Academy of Medicine BU Biomedical Engineer Christopher Chen Elected to National Academy of Medicine | The Brink | Boston University
BUnano Center director Prof Mark Grinstaff and BUnano fellowship alumni Dr. Brett Tingley, Sarah Adams, Dr. Andrew Martin and Dr. Aaron Colby collaborated on a recent publication in Life Science Alliance highlighting their research on using nanoparticles for antiviral therapy for coronavirus infections. Endolysosome-targeted nanoparticle delivery of antiviral therapy for coronavirus infections https://www.life-science-alliance.org/content/8/4/e202403182
The Brink features Prof. Chris Chen’s research. Prof Chen is BUnano Faculty and founding director of BU’s Biological Design Center, which aims to improve our understanding of how cells and biological systems work, and then find ways to control them for our benefit. Curing Heart Attacks, Replacing Diseased Organs—Christopher Chen Is Engineering a Healthier Future | […]
BUnano Faculty Dr. Kamil Ekinci’s work is featured in Applied Physics Letters https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0215566
BUnano faculty member Xi Ling was recently awarded tenure alongside a promotion to Associate Professor. Professor Ling holds appointments in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering and has earned several prestigious awards for her work, including the NSF Career Award, BU Ignition Award, BU MSE Innovation Award, BU Provost’s Career Development Professorship, and MIT EECS […]
This year, BU awarded 22 faculty from across the Charles River and Medical Campuses with full professorships, and BUnano faculty member Chen Yang was among them. Professor Yang holds appointments in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Yang holds several prestigious awards for her work, including the […]
The American Physical Society met in early March 2024, and BUnano Faculty showed up in force. Fourteen abstracts, published on the ACS site for this meeting, feature research from seven BUnano Faculty members. Read the abstracts below: March 4, 2024 Ophelia Tsui (Author, Presenter): Correlation between Fragility and Surface Tg of Polymers, Polymer Glasses […]
BUnano faculty have been busy throughout the fall semester, publishing papers, presenting their innovative work, and patenting their inventions. Browse this fall’s highlights: