Just How Safe Are Soft Robots?
BU undergraduate Sarah Alizadeh-Shabdiz is trying to find out, with the help of a remote control car
2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market
Innovations to fight cancer, repair sensitive teeth, improve kidney dialysis, and more win support from BU Technology Development’s annual award
Mark Grinstaff Receives NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award
Biomedical engineer and his team will use the funds to develop a new vaccine technology
BU’s Innovator of the Year Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy, Microscopy, Eye Exams
Photonics Center Director Thomas Bifano recognized for helping others nurture their ideas and for “always trying to solve problems”
Three BU Researchers Elected AAAS Fellows
World’s largest scientific society gives lifetime honor to BU biologist, engineer, and physicist
BU Electrical Engineer Vivek Goyal Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
The award recognizes Goyal’s groundbreaking work in computational imaging, including research to photograph objects hidden by walls and around corners
How Do People Carry Such Heavy Loads on Their Heads?
BU mechanical engineering student Sanika D. Brave is studying the fabric rings head carriers, mostly women in rural communities, use to distribute and balance weight
Brian Walsh’s LEXI Telescope Heading to the Moon
Last week (3/6/24), Associate Professor Brian Walsh hosted a meet-and-greet for their Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), an x-ray telescope which will be going to the moon in one of three planned trips through NASA’s SpaceX program. Over the course of the last fifteen years, Professor Walsh et al. have focused their efforts on creating this novel […]
The Race to a Battery-Powered Future
Engineers at BU are figuring out how to make better, more sustainable batteries—a technology that is essential for clean energy
BU Ignition Awards to Accelerate Products for Repairing Damaged Teeth, Fighting Cancer, Boosting Reading Skills, and More
BU Technology Development’s 2023 Ignition Awards help researchers transform their ideas into life-changing products and services