Ultra-rapid, quantitative, label-free antibiotic susceptibility testing via optically detected purine metabolites
Faculty: Lawrence Ziegler | Outlet: ScienceDirect
Needed for reproductive justice and autonomy: women in design
Faculty: Catherine Klapperich | Outlet: STAT
The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration
Faculty: Ji-Xin Cheng | Outlet: Nature
Jiashuo Wang
Noelle Pierce
Ultrafast simultaneous manipulation of multiple ferroic orders through nonlinear phonon excitation
Faculty: Wanzheng Hu | Outlet: Nature
Dean’s Faculty Leadership Fellows Begin Work
Bunch and Farny are first recipients of new fellowship
Michelle Sander & Lei Tian Named Optica Fellows
“Congratulations to the 2025 class of Optica Fellows,” said Jim Kafka, 2025 Optica President. “These members are making important contributions to our society and field. We thank them for their dedication and are incredibly proud to celebrate their accomplishments.”
SPIE and Boston University announce $1-million endowment for graduate and postgraduate scholarships
The SPIE-Boston University Scholarship in Photonics will support graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at the university’s Photonics Center
Walsh Team’s LEXI Telescope Successfully Launches into Space
Following liftoff and launch vehicle separation, Firefly acquired signal from the Blue Ghost lunar lander at 2:26 a.m. EST. Blue Ghost is now officially on its way to the Moon, and Firefly will provide regular mission updates all along the way.