Brian Walsh’s LEXI Telescope Heading to the Moon

Last week (3/6/24), Associate Professor Brian Walsh hosted an event for their NASA-sponsored Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), an x-ray telescope which will be going to the moon later this year. Over the course of the last fifteen years, Professor Walsh and colleagues have worked to develop novel x-ray imaging system to better image […]

ECE CHIPS In: The Computing Power of Light

This is the second article in our series highlighting BU ECE’s contributions to research and education under the umbrella of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, and our faculty’s collective investment in the national effort to build a robust and innovative semiconductor industry.

A giant leap in detecting brain activity, thanks to glowing voltage sensors and a “disco ball”

BU Photonics researchers developed a new method and microscope allowing them to see electrical activity between brain cells in exquisite detail By Kat J. McAlpine A new microscopy approach — capable of imaging the voltage of brain cells as they process information — uses genetically-engineered proteins and an ultrafast microscope (with an onboard, light reflecting […]