New BU Postdoctoral Awards Celebrate Excellence in Mary Dunlop’s Mentorship and Research
Inaugural honors “reflect the critical contributions of our postdocs and their mentors”
Brian Walsh and Team’s LEXI Telescope Makes Advances Toward the Moon
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, which includes the LEXI telescope designed and created by Professor Walsh’s research lab, arrived at JPL and has stared environmental testing, before heading to Florida, and eventually, the moon.
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!
Mary Dunlop Among Three Professors to Earn ENG Honors
Associate Professor Mary Dunlop (BME) has been awarded the Dorf-Ebner Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. “Mary’s contributions to graduate and undergraduate education at Boston University and to the field of synthetic biology, as a researcher, mentor, teacher, and leader are exemplary,” Morgan wrote in an email to the ENG community.
Memory Serves Them Well
Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez has built a diverse, vibrant community of young scientists in his memory lab
Making MRI More Globally Accessible: How Metamaterials Offer Affordable, High-Impact Solutions
A trio of studies from BU researchers (Xin Zhang, Stephan Anderson, et al.) demonstrate how precisely engineered, low-cost structures can be used to boost the power and speed of medical imaging
Xin Zhang’s Metamaterial MRI Helmet Featured in Fast Company’s “Best Material Innovations of 2024” List
The materials category of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards honors material innovations that lead to greener, better products.
Hadi Nia Featured in BME Profile Video
Assistant Professor Hadi Nia’s lab works at the interface of physics, biology and immunology, developing unique technologies to study organ function at the cellular resolution, and organ-organ cross talks.
Michael Albro Among Six BU Researchers Receiving Prestigious Early-Career Award
NSF CAREER awards recognize BU researchers innovating in biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, and more
Hadi Nia and Student Rohin Banerji Featured in Laser Focus World
Crystal ribcage opens black box of a functioning lung to optical imaging: A transparent ‘crystal’ ribcage enables first real-time, high-resolution optical imaging of a functioning lung from whole organ down to single-cell scales.