Boston University

College of Engineering

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Innovation Awards

2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market

August 22, 2024

Photo: Mark Grinstaff, a white man with glasses and distinguished professor of translational research—as well as a professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, materials science and engineering, and medicine—has been named a 2021 AAAS Honorary Fellow.

Awards

ENG’s Mark Grinstaff One of Six Researchers to Receive NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Awards

July 25, 2024

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Awards

Proposal to Push Space Junk to “Graveyard Orbit” Earns BU Duo First Prize in National Contest

June 3, 2024

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Science & Technology

Boston Teens Pitch Biotech Concepts to BU “Investors” at Biological Design Center’s STEM Pathways Event

May 7, 2024

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Engineering

Bridge Collapse Creates Conversation in BU Structural Mechanics Class

March 27, 2024

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Books

The Bold World of Marcus Wachira

March 27, 2024

Photo: Abdulrazak Gurnah , winner of the 2021 Nobel prize in literature, speaks with Professor Muhammad Zaman (left) and Professor Carrie Preston as part of a two-day BU visit under the auspices of the Center on Forced Displacement and Kilachand at Morse Auditorium. Three people sit in formal attire and appear to be discussing an important topic around a small table

Forced Displacement

Fruitful First Year for Center on Forced Displacement

November 16, 2023

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Students

Meet BU’s Newest Terriers: Mohamed Mohamed

September 7, 2023

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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS

Is the Government Concealing UFO Craft and Dead Extraterrestrials?

June 22, 2023

Accolades

Sky High—ENG Terriers Win NASA Student Competition on Clean Aviation Energy

June 9, 2023

Sky High—ENG Terriers Win NASA Student Competition on Clean Aviation Energy