Darren Roblyer Named 2025 SPIE Fellow
The inductees this year represent high-profile leaders in academia, industry, and government, many of whom are prominent in their support of the optics and photonics community and mentorship of others.
New AHA Journals Article from Swathi Kiran and Team
Professor Kiran and team were recently published for their article: “Machine Learning Predictions of Recovery in Bilingual Poststroke Aphasia: Aligning Insights With Clinical Evidence”
Jerome Mertz Wins Inaugural Dean’s Research Infrastructure Award
Boston University College of Engineering Dean ad interim Elise Morgan has announced the inaugural recipients of the Dean’s Research Infrastructure Awards (DRIA). Six faculty members, along with collaborators they identified, will receive funds under a program that aims to support innovative, high-impact research by enabling the upgrade, repair, or acquisition of critical equipment.
Neurophotonics Center Faculty Included in Brink’s Best Stories of 2024
COVID (still) and immigration draw the most views, but readers were also captivated by superagers sharing their secrets of living to 100 and a BU-developed device to help detect skin cancer.
Could Twisting Beams of Light Make the Internet Faster—and Greener?
BU engineer Siddharth Ramachandran is developing a technology that could cut the power needed to transmit data—and maybe one day improve brain imaging
Ji-Xin Cheng & Team Featured in Latest Issue of Science Advances
Professor Cheng et al. were recently published in Science Advances with both a leading article and special introduction to the issue by Professor Cheng.
Darren Roblyer and Team Featured on MedicalXpress
It might not be as simple as shining a phone flashlight on your finger, but the principles of diffusive glow apply to many of Roblyer’s medical device inventions for tracking health.
Helen Tager–Flusberg Interviewed for “U.S. News” Article on Climbing Autism Rates
Helen Tager-Flusberg, director of the Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University, spoke with U.S. News via email about the likely reasons behind the rise, why claims of a link between vaccines and autism persist, and how the Trump administration could impact autism research.
New Article from Tim O’Shea, et al.
Assistant Professor Tim O’Shea and team were recently published in Wiley Online Library for their article “Thioether-Functionalized Cellulose for the Fabrication of Oxidation-Responsive Biomaterial Coatings and Films”
Kilachand Center Profile on Steve Ramirez – Decoding the Mechanisms of Memory
The Ramirez Group, led by Professor Steve Ramirez, investigates how we process and retrieve memories as well as how those memories might be artificially modulated to treat mental health disorders.