Walsh Team’s LEXI Telescope Successfully Launches into Space
Following liftoff and launch vehicle separation, Firefly acquired signal from the Blue Ghost lunar lander at 2:26 a.m. EST. Blue Ghost is now officially on its way to the Moon, and Firefly will provide regular mission updates all along the way.
Michelle Sander Among Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists Honored by President Biden
President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.
Josh Semeter’s Ionospheric Imaging Project Listed in NASA Article
“In 2024, NASA selected 25 new citizen science proposals for funding that will lead to new projects and new results to look forward to in 2025 and beyond. “
Countdown Begins: NASA to Blast BU Telescope to the Moon in Historic First
Check out this Brink article and video on Professor Walsh and team’s LEXI telescope!
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.
NASA Article on Walsh Lab’s LEXI Telescope
A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation.
Monan Ma: Making Big Waves with Nanotechnology in the Ekinci Lab
Monan Ma researches phenomena on the nanometer scale, but he’s no small figure at the Boston University Photonics Center. As a PhD student studying Mechanical Engineering in Professor Kamil L. Ekinci’s lab, Ma has already conducted research as a BUnano Cross-Disciplinary Fellow, given talks at MIT, and served as the Vice President of the BU […]
Inaugural Dean’s Research Infrastructure Awards Given to Multiple Photonics Faculty
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.
Photonics 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.
A Summer Experience Like No Other: Life as an REU at Boston University
If you went to summer camp, you’ll remember the feeling well: leaving home, sometimes for weeks at a time, learning new things and meeting new people. You might think of archery, rowing, campfires and fireworks as the dog days of summer stretch on. What might not come to mind is cardiology, lithography, single-molecule force spectroscopy, […]