RET Projects & Mentors
2026 Projects
Each REU participant will join a research project led by a BU faculty member, or in some cases, a startup company lab based in the BU Photonics building.
NSF REU Site in Integrated Nanomanufacturing

Title Pending
Principal Investigator: William Boley
Lab: Additive Assembly Lab

Hardware Programming for Nano-electro-mechanical Systems
Principal Investigator: Kamil Ekinci
Lab: Ekinci Research Group
Project Description:

Thermocapillary Manipulation of Liquid Optical Waveguides
Principal Investigator: Valeri Frumkin
Mentors: Ryan Engle & Jacob Garrett
Project Description:
Title Pendin
Photonics Undergraduate Research Summer Experience
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