Minjung Son Wins Flygare Award at ISMS
"The Flygare Award Lectures are given out biannually to early career independent scientists who showcase outstanding contributions in molecular spectroscopy."
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Steve Ramirez Featured on Actor Alan Alda’s “Clear + Vivid” Podcast
Experiments with mice have shown it’s possible to tinker with and even erase a memory. The goal for neuroscience now is to apply the science to help people struggling with PTSD and other mentally crippling memories.
The 9th Annual Neurophotonics Symposium Brings Together Over 250 Community Members
Next-Level Networking
New ECE Professor David Lake and the Quantum Architecture of the Future
A Solution to the Cocktail Party Problem––Hidden in the Brain
BOTLAB – On a Winning Streak
A Banner Year for Darren Roblyer’s Lab, with 3 NIH Awards
Photonics Center Community Featured Across SPIE’s Photonics West 2026 Conference
Last week, SPIE held it's annual "Photonics West" conference, bringing together researchers and experts across the varying fields of optics and photonics research. With over a hundred conferences, plenary events, and presentations, several Boston University Photonics and Neurophotonics Center faculty––and graduate students––were not only in attendance, but led several key talks. Plenary Events: Irving Bigio […]
Irving Bigio: The 2026 SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award
For pioneering elastic scattering spectroscopy and translating it into a clinically impactful diagnostic tool, and for mentoring a generation of leaders in translational biomedical optics
The 27th Annual Photonics Center Symposium: Photonics In Space
This symposium will feature talks from premier astronomy researchers across academia and industry discussing developments in imaging and spectroscopic technologies, superconducting techniques with South Pole telescopes, and usages of the EM spectrum for research on Mars, among other topics.
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The Photonics Center's 27th Annual Symposium: "Photonics in Space"
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