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.
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.
David Boas and Emily Stephen Win Kilachand Fund Awards
Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, provides a noninvasive way to study human brain function
Matthias Stangl Receives R00 Grant from NIH
Assistant Professor Matthias Stangl has been awarded a R00 grant from NIH for his collaborative project entitled, “The neural mechanisms of spatial representations beyond the self” (~$750k over 3 years). This project places the Stangl lab in direct collaboration with the Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and NeuroPace Inc. (a […]
Alanna Carey of the Chen Lab Granted NIH D-SPAN Award
Alanna’s current work utilizes a genetically diverse mouse model in an automated home-cage performing a goal-directed learning task to observe how genetic diversity influences learning capacity. Her dissertation aims to demonstrate that genetic variation related to learning can converge on specific neuronal cell types and investigate how molecular, anatomical, or functional properties of neuronal cell […]
Ji-Xin Cheng Wins Raman Award and ACS Award
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng recently won both a Raman Award for “Most Innovative Technological Development,” and the ACS “Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis” Congrats to Professor Cheng!
New Minds, New Horizons: Incoming NPC Fellows Share How T32 Funding Enables Cutting-edge Research
The Boston University Neurophotonics Center was recently awarded the T32 Grant, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will provide select graduate students the funding necessary to pursue dedicated research under NPC faculty advisors. In the Neurophotonics Center’s early days, prior funding from the T32 grant allowed for five years of expansive […]
Matthew Simkulet Awarded NIH T32 Grant
With funding from the NIH’s T32 Program, Matthew Simkulet will continue his work with Assistant Professor Tim O’Shea studying neurological responses to implanted devices. Matthew will investigate microprisms implanted in mouse cortexes using two-photon microscopy in order to examine the brain’s natural wound response to implanted devices. Matthew hopes specifically to look into the fundamental […]
Gabrielle Magalhães Ulloa Awarded NIH T32 Grant
With funding from NIH’s T32 grant, Gabrielle Magalhães Ulloa will continue her work studying the prelimbic system’s role in affective learning and decision making in adolescent rodents. While the role of the prefrontal cortex has been established by prior research, Gabrielle hopes to examine adolescent rodents specifically in order to better understand age differences in […]
Swathi Kiran Honored by American Speech Language Hearing Association
Swathi Kiran, the James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor in Neurorehabilitation, and Clinical Professor Elizabeth Hoover have been recognized by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for their contributions to the professions of speech-language pathology and speech & hearing science.