Mohanty Lab featured in BU Research
Graduate student Farrukh Mateen (ENG ’18) and Physics Professor Raj Mohanty have been featured in BU Research for their work building small wireless micromechanical devices. These micromachines, which can be turned on and off remotely, could have applications ranging from remote sensors to brain implants.
Manher Jariwala wins Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching
BU Physics Lecturer Manher Jariwala is the recipient of the 2016 Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Metcalf award was established in 1973 to create “a systematic procedure for the review of the quality of teaching at Boston University and the identification an
BU Physics alum leads Microsoft quantum computing team
Professor Michael Manfra (back) with graduate student Geoff Gardner in front of their molecular beam epitaxy system. Michael Manfra (PhD ‘99) has been chosen to lead Station Q Purdue, an experimental research team collaborating with Microsoft Station Q to pursue a path to quantum computing. Manfra and his team will use molecular beam epitaxy to […]
BU Recognized for Physics Teacher Education
Boston University has been inducted into “The 5+ Club” of the Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) for its outstanding contributions to the education of future physics teachers. “The 5+ Club” honors colleges and universities around the country that prepare five or more physics teachers in a given year; BU tied for 4th in the nation with six […]
Sushkov Named 2016 Sloan Research Fellow
Assistant Professor Alex Sushkov has been named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions […]
Clint Richardson wins CMS Achievement Award
Congratulations to graduate student Clint Richardson for receiving the 2015 CMS Achievement Award! The CMS spokeperson and collaboration board presented Clint with this award citing his “outstanding High Level Trigger work on CPU performance and online operations”. Clint was one of six graduate students to be recognized from over 1000 CMS graduate students.
Plamen Ivanov featured in Physics World
Research Professor Plamen Ch. Ivanov has been featured on the cover of the February 2016 issue of Physics Worldfor his pioneering work in the field of Network Physiology. Physics World is the member magazine of the Institute of Physics (IOP), with a circulation of 50,000. You can read the whole story on the IOP website. Last […]
Super-K and T2K awarded Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
More than 1000 physicists from five experiments were awarded a share of the $3M Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Boston University neutrino physicists contributed to two of the five experiments: Super-Kamiokande and K2K/T2K (K2K and T2K are actually two experiments but were combined). The prize was revealed at a televised award ceremony on November 8, with Super-Kamiokande and K2K/T2K […]
BU Physics is 17th in latest US News & World Reports
The Boston University Physics Department has continued to solidify its standing as measured by various rankings, most recently by the US News and World Reports ranking of Global Universities. We rank 30th in the world, 17th in the US, and 10th among private universities, behind only Harvard, MIT, Chicago, Caltech, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Yale and […]
Plamen Ivanov wins $1 Million Keck Foundation award to develop new field of Network Physiology
Plamen Ch. Ivanov, a research professor in the Boston University Physics Department, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to develop a theoretical framework and establish quantitatively how organ systems coordinate their functions and integrate as a network. Ivanov is leading a team of research scientists, including Ronny Bartsch, […]