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Innovation

Photo: A group of people pose in font of a building with glass doors. Pictured (from left): Saylor Williams, Manpreet Singh (GRS’24), Gloria Waters, Rebecca Pearl-Martinez, Golden (CAMED’27); Angie Serrano, a BU medical school assistant professor of vascular biology; Dennis Carlberg, and Greg Miller.

Sustainability

How to Make Research Labs More Sustainable

June 20, 2023

Photo: College of Engineering professors (from left) Rabia Yazicigil, a white woman with short curly hair and wearing a black blouse, oversized blue blazer, and black pants, Mo Khalil, A tan man wearing glasses, brown sweater, and black pants, and Doug Densmore, a light-skinned Black man wearing a long sleeve collared grey shirt and black pants in a lab. Yazicigil and Mo Khalil look to Densmore as he talks and gesticulates.

Biomanufacturing

Turning Trash into Medicines, Machine Oils, Cosmetics, and More

June 15, 2023

Photo of Mark Grinstaff, a middle-aged white man with glasses who wears a button-down shirt with a gradient, squiggly line pattern that fades from green and blue to red and pink. He smiles as he stands and leans against a cluttered lab table.

Accolades

Royal Society of Chemistry Honors BU’s Mark Grinstaff

June 13, 2023

Image: Red geometric/constellation style illustration of a heart. A red ECG heart monitor line goes through the middle of the heart. Image lies on a large blue, pixelated background.

AI and Hypertension

New Artificial Intelligence Program Could Help Treat Hypertension

June 6, 2023

Photo: A flatlay of the iLet Bionic Pancreas, a bionic pancreas approved at the FDA. The device is a black box with a wire attached with two additional attachments

Bionic Pancreas

FDA Clears Bionic Pancreas Developed in BU Lab for People with Type 1 Diabetes

May 22, 2023

Photo: Three young women hold up puppets on their right hand and smile into the camera. From left, she has short brown hair and wears a monochromatic tan outfit. In the middle, a white woman with long brown hair and a stripped shirt. On the right, a Black woman with shoulder length straight hair. She wears an all black outfit.

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Communicating Science and Research—through Puppets

May 16, 2023

Photo: Students stand and pose for a photo at the bottom of a set of stairs. From right to left, top to bottom: Daniel Skahill (CDS ‘23), Samantha Chen (CDS ‘23), Zining Ye (CDS ‘23), Yile Wang (CDS ‘23), and Edward Wong (CDS ‘23).

Commencement 2023

Inaugural Class of BU Computing & Data Sciences Majors Prepare to Graduate

May 16, 2023

Photo: BU’s Xin Zhang (right) collects the STAT Madness 2023 All-Star award from Nicholas St. Fleur, a STAT general assignment reporter and associate editorial director of events. An Asian woman (right) with short black hair and wearing a purple collared shirt holds up a clear glass trophy with a Black man with brown hair in a curly poof and wearing a tan suit.

Metamaterials

Xin Zhang Wins STAT Madness 2023 All-Star Award

May 11, 2023

Photo: A group of people stand and pose for a photo in front of a sign that reads "2023 New Venture Competition Winners". Ian Mashiter, director of curriculum at Innovate@BU (from left), Johar Singh (Questrom’24), Shen Ning (MED’24), Stamatios Liapis (MED’23), Philippe Rival (Harvard Business School), Siobhan Dullea, executive director of Innovate@BU, Caspian Chaharom (CAS’23), Kelsey Mann (CFA’23), Chloe Adamowicz (CAS’23), and Harunobu Ishii (MET’22).

Innovation

Teams Win $72,000 in Funding at Innovate@BU’s New Venture Competition

May 2, 2023

Photo: Engineering Professor, Dr. Ji-Xin Cheng, an Asian man wearing a grey pullover sweater, poses for a photo in his lab. A blue light gives the photo a cool-themed feel as Cheng looks to the left and stands in front of a table full of various mechanical engineering equipment.

Innovator of the Year

Ji-Xin Cheng Is BU’s 2022 Innovator of the Year

May 1, 2023

Photo: Xin Zhang, an Asian woman with short black hair and wearing a burnt orange collared shirt is shown smiling and standing with arms crossed poses in her lab. She wears Computer materials can be seen behind her.

Metamaterials

Xin Zhang to Compete for STAT Madness All-Star Award

April 25, 2023

Photo: Five men stand on a stage to celebrate the winner of a compeition. From left, a West Asian man wearing a black suit, a white man in a maroon blazer and black pants, a West Asian man wearing a blue suit with a black tie, an older West Asian man wearing a black suit with a purple tie, and a white man wearing a plaid blazer with tailored jeans and glasses. They are all smiling for the photo, looking to the left at another camera.

Awards

$50,000 in Prize Money Awarded at SHA’s Poyiadjis Hospitality Innovation Competition

March 27, 2023

Photo: To the far left, Andrew Reid Bell, a white man wearing a green cap, looks on as a small group of dark-skinned Black women and men look to tablets on a multi-colored, checkered long table. They are in a small wooden dwelling with an open doorway and cross-patterned open windows letting light in.

Conservation

How Do We Make Farming Better for the Planet? Ask Women

March 16, 2023

Photo: A white woman with shoulder length light, brown hair smiles in a portriat shot of her. She is wearing a big chunky necklace and a grey, mock-sleeve top.

University News

BU Appoints New Executive Director of Innovate@BU

March 15, 2023

Image: Concept illustration of Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications. Mockup of multiple types of aircrafts are depicted flying over urban, suburban and rural areas.

NASA

Delivery Drones and Rotor-Powered Rideshares Sound Great—and Noisy

March 14, 2023

Professor Wesley Wildman, a tall white man in a blue collared shirt, teaches a Data and Ethics class at CDS on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University

Artificial Intelligence

Why ChatGPT Is Both Exciting and Unsettling for Students, Faculty

February 17, 2023

Strategy & Innovation

My Big Idea: a Web- and App-Based Tool to Plan a Meaningful Life

February 14, 2023

Image: AI-generated retro illustration of a purple-themed robot placed against a black background.

Artificial Intelligence

Can We Trust ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence to Do Humans’ Work?

February 8, 2023

Photo: A watercolor-esque background with pink, blue, and purple. In the front, a feminine-presenting individual with short, curly, brown hair. She is wearing a collared white tank top with two, thin gold chains. She also has s nose piercing and she is smiling in the photo.

Innovation

IDEA Con Is a Crash Course for Young Innovators and Entrepreneurs

February 7, 2023

Catherine Espaillat, Vivek Goyal, and Malika Jeffries-EL were all honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photos by Cydney Scott

Accolades

These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows

January 31, 2023

These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows