Category: Faculty
Faculty Highlight: Xi Ling Awarded Tenure
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 […]
Faculty Highlight: Chen Yang Awarded Full Professorship
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 […]
Seven BUnano Faculty Cited in APS Meeting Presentations
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 […]
Fall 2023 Recap: Faculty Spotlight
BUnano faculty have been busy throughout the fall semester, publishing papers, presenting their innovative work, and patenting their inventions. Browse this fall’s highlights:
Summer 2023 Recap: Faculty Spotlight
BUnano faculty have been busy all throughout the summer, publishing papers, presenting their innovative work, and patenting their inventions. Here are this summer’s highlights: Chuanhua Duan: Rewritable nano print of ionic liquids utilizing focused ion beam induced film wetting under review in Nature Portfolio Jerome Mertz: High-speed multiplane confocal microscopy for voltage imaging in densely labeled […]
The Brink features Ignition Award-funded research by Drs. Wong and Grinstaff
BU research publication The Brink featured Drs. Mark Grinstaff, BUnano Director, and Wilson Wong in a recent article highlighting faculty research funded by the BU Ignition Awards. The Ignition Awards help fund innovative faculty research across all of BU’s campuses that have clear commercial potential. Drs. Grinstaff and Wong are utilizing this award to supercharge […]
Royal Society of Chemistry Honors BUnano Director Mark Grinstaff
From The Brink: BUnano Center Director Mark Grinstaff was recently awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Centenary Prize in “recognition of brilliance in research and innovation.” Read the full article here.
Nanotechnology solution to NAFLD – study reported in Nature Communications
An international team of scientists led by BUnano Center Director Dr. Mark Grinstaff, Dr. Orian Shirihai (UCLA), and BUnano Crossdisciplinary Fellowship Alumna Dr. Jialiu Zeng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) reports on a new type of nanotechnology as a potential first-in-kind therapeutic for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which affects 20 to 30% of the world’s […]
The BRINK features BUnano faculty innovations
Several BUnano Faculty received Kilachand Awards in 2021 for pushing limits of science: read below about innovations by Drs. Xin Zhang, Stephan Anderson, Aaron Beeler & Mo Khalil. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/five-studies-pushing-the-limits-of-science/