Photonics Assistant Professor Xi Ling Awarded 2020 National Science Foundation Career Award
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 Professors Keith Brown and David Boas Awarded 2020 Dean’s Catalyst Award
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 Receives Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award
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 Awarded a MURI Award
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
Photonics Center Professor Selim Unlu Inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows
Photonics Center Professor Selim Unlu was recently inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows for his pioneering contributions in the utilization of optical interference in biological sensing and imaging. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical or biological […]
Photonics Center Professor Xin Zhang Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Photonics Center Professor Xin Zhang was elected to the National Academy of Inventors for her pioneering work on metamaterials. Read more
Photonics Center Professor Xin Zhang Receives IET 2019 Innovation Award
Photonics Center Professor Xin Zhang has received the 2019 Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award in the Emerging Technology Design criteria based on her team’s magnetic metamaterials for improving MRI performance work.
Photonics Professors Cheng, Paiella, Unlu, and Ziegler Receive 2019 BU Ignition Award
Photonics Center Professors Ji-Xin Cheng, Roberto Paiella, Selim Unlu, and Larry Ziegler have received the 2019 BU Ignition Award from the Office of Technology Development. The Ignition program awards $75,000, one-year grants to Boston University faculty to help launch promising new technologies into the marketplace. Read more
Photonics Center Professor Ji-Xin Cheng Receives 2020 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award
Photonics Center Professor Ji-Xin Cheng has received the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award for his work on bioanalytical spectroscopy and his leadership in the scientific community. Professor Cheng will be honored at the 2020 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award Symposium on March 3, 2020 in Chicago, IL.