Professor Xin Zhang was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowhsip. These fellowships are awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, to those “who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” Read more
Associate Professor Anna Devor and Assistant Professors Lei Tian, Michael Economo and team are leading a U19 grant on Neuromodulators. Read more
Photonics Center Assistant Professor Lei Tian received the 2021 Early Career Excellence in Research Award from the BU College of Engineering. The Early Career Excellence in Research Award celebrates junior faculty with exceptional research accomplishments. Professor Tian was presented the award at the start of the College of Engineering Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture on May […]
Photonics Center Assistant Professor Steve Ramirez received the 2021 BU Metcalf cup and prize, receiving excellent feedback from students. The 2021 Metcalf prize is the University’s highest teaching award. Read more
Photonics Center Professor Catherine Klapperich was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read more
Photonics Center Professor Luca Dal Negro earned a National Science Foundation award for a project that is focused on developing a new generation of ultra-compact, multi-functional, and inexpensive spectroscopic devices based on nano-structured silicon materials, which are widespread in the microelectronics industry. Read more
Photonics Center Assistant Professor Xi Ling was awarded the 2020 NSF Career Award, a program to recognizes that recognizes exceptional early career scientists. With support from the NSF Career Award, Professor Ling hopes to pave the way for even better chemical sensing techniques using interactions between light and matter. Read more
Photonics Professor David Boas and Photonics Assistant Professor Keith Brown were awarded the 2020 Dean’s Catalyst Award by College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen. The grant gives professors two years of seed funding to pursue new research. Assistant Professor Brown will work on developing a new method of manufacturing and will study thin electrochemical films that […]
Photonics Center Professor Irving Bigio has received the Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award. The Goodman Award recognizes a recent book in the field of optics and photonics that has contributed significantly to research, teaching, or industry. Read more
Photonics Center Professor Siddharth Ramachandran was awarded a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant to study the science and applications of singular light beams in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. Read more