Anna Devor Promoted to Full Professor
Photonics Center Professor Anna Devor was recently promoted from Associate Professor to Professor, among 23 other faculty members across BU cited as leaders in their respective areas of research and in their classrooms.
Professor Xin Zhang to Compete for STAT Madness All-Star Award
Professor Xin Zhang will have the opportunity to pitch her work on metamaterials that can improve MRIs to expert judges.
Biomedical Optics Pioneer David Boas Delivers the 2023 DeLisi Lecture
After helping to set up extra chairs to accommodate a standing-room-only crowd in the BU Photonics Center’s Colloquium Room, Arthur G. B. Metcalf Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor David Boas (BME, ECE) delivered the 2023 Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture on April 11.
Associate Professor Chen Yang Inducted into 2023 Class of AIMBE Fellows
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Associate Professor Chen Yang to its College of Fellows. Read more
In Brian Walsh’s group, interdisciplinary collaboration helps bring satellites into space and sensors to the moon
By Tess Joosse Every day, hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of space infrastructure orbit Earth– everything from the global positioning system (GPS) satellites that power our smartphones’ map capabilities to the International Space Station (ISS) that hosts crucial space research projects. “We lean on it for a lot of things,” Brian Walsh says of […]
Alexander Sushkov’s group is using magnetic resonance to search for dark matter and build nano-sized imaging machines
By Tess Joosse How do you detect a force that is thought to be everywhere, but has never been identified? How do you build a machine capable of looking into the smallest parts of a living organism? In Alexander Sushkov’s laboratory, questions like these – and the thrill of the challenge – power the group’s […]
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 […]
How Keith Brown’s lab is hastening materials research using machine learning and autonomous research robots
His team has built a “self-driving lab” to handle the grunt work of experiments, freeing them up to think more creatively about solving today’s biggest challenges By Kat J. McAlpine Keith Brown started out his scientific career by studying physics before pivoting to spend time doing materials research. The experience jumping between those two areas […]
Associate Professor Chen Yang on Cover of Photonics West Meeting Brochure
Associate Professor Chen Yang was on the cover of the Photonics West meeting brochure for her hot topic presentation. The presentation covered linking light and sound for safer noninvasive brain investigations.
How do decisions made in the brain influence behavior?
Jerry Chen’s lab is engineering new tools to visualize the brain’s processes By Tess Joosse At the crux of Jerry Chen’s research are some of the most elemental questions about the cognitive experience. “How do we perceive the world? How do we use that information to make decisions? We’re interested in understanding the basic functions […]