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Photo: A picture fo four students in white, long-sleeve shirts with their arms crossed in a biology lab.

Engineering

BU Students Head to Paris to Compete in International Synthetic Biology Competition

October 18, 2024

Photo: A picture of two male students l ooking at a computer together.

Engineering

FIRE Program Returns to College of Engineering

August 27, 2024

Photo: An aerial view of a container ship resting in the wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge

Engineering

Bridge Collapse Creates Conversation in BU Structural Mechanics Class

March 27, 2024

Photo: A helicopter flies over a container ship as it rests against wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the container ship ran into the bridge, causing the collapse.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Was the Francis Scott Key Bridge Disaster Avoidable?

March 26, 2024

Photo: A young asian girl smiles and holds up a metal strip in a college-run program where she investigates more about STEM. She wears a gray hoodie.

STEM

U-Design, the College of Engineering’s Summer Program, Introduces Middle Schoolers to the World of STEM

August 1, 2023

Fort Point

Things-to-do

Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: Fort Point/Seaport

March 30, 2023

Photo of students walking up and down Comm Ave's brick sidewalk by Marsh Chapel. Many wear backpacks and it is a sunny day.

University News

BU Climbs in Some U.S. News & World Report National College Rankings

September 12, 2022

Photo of Tess Ravick (ENG’22), back, and Trevor Melsheimer (ENG’22), front work on their senior design project April 29. The device harvests water from the air. Ravick has light brown skin, wears a t-shirt, a white face mask, and their hair in a bun. Melsheimer, who has light skin and a beard and wears a gray sweater, adjusts a level of the black device on the table in front of them.

Watch Now

Water, Water, Everywhere—They Hope

May 4, 2022

Professor Sean Andersson, left, listens to Franco Julia Wise (ENG’22), at right, as he explains the workings of his team’s Soft Robot with Integrated Soft Optical Sensing for Minimally Invasive Surgery following the May 4 press conference at Phototonics announcing ENG getting $4.4 million from Massachusetts High Technology Council to build a new robotics lab, BU RASTIC, to complement ENG's master's program in robotics and autonomous systems. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

University News

BU to Open New Robotics Lab to Foster More Student Innovators

May 4, 2022

Photo of Steven Lue, a young boy with dark hair, black glasses, a red t-shirt. He stands in front of a small tree on a sunny day.

Diversity in STEM

Building the Pipeline to Get Black, Hispanic Youth into STEM Careers

November 17, 2021

Photo of Daylin Frantin, left, in a gray long-sleeve and black pants, with one hand on a boat engine, while Sam Gallipeau, Flux’s in-house designer, in a gray quarter zip, inspects the other side of the engine. Behind them are work benches and industrial shelves. A small crane lifts the engine

Innovation

Reinventing the Outboard

June 9, 2021

a portrait of Eric Kolaczyk

OPINION

POV: Modeling Shows Us What Can Happen. Our Choices Determine What Will Happen.

August 28, 2020

The rocket carrying mini-sensors developed by BU students on the launch pad in New Zealand before liftoff

Space

University’s Student-Built Satellites Blast into Space after Years of Delays

June 17, 2020

someone types code into a computer with a small robot next to them

Engineering

Look, Mom, I Built a Robot

May 30, 2019

Portrait of Boston University College of Engineering professor Siddharth Ramachandran.

Science & Technology

ENG Prof Named 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by DOD

May 6, 2019

Boston University Ph. D. candidate Reza Ghaffarivardavagh poses with his research team. Reza holds the noise cancellation devices his team developed over his ears while his teammates make noise banging a pot, playing a trumpet, and a boombox in the background

Acoustics

Making the World a Lot Quieter

April 18, 2019

Detail photo of a researcher demonstrating a drug-free blue light therapy MRSA treatment. The researcher exposes a petri dish of MRSA and hydrogen peroxide to a blue light laser light.

Photonics

How Light Turns Ordinary Hydrogen Peroxide into a MRSA Treatment

April 9, 2019

Caolan Disini (CAS'20) from left, Maria Dominguez (CAS'21), and Jared Yellen (CAS'21) with the BU Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality club

Gadgets

Exploring the World of Augmented and Virtual Reality

March 28, 2019

Health & Medicine

Visionary for Your Vision

March 12, 2019

BU’s Engineering Product Innovation Center

Strategy & Innovation

A Day in the Life of BU’s Engineering Product Innovation Center

March 7, 2019

A Day in the Life of BU’s Engineering Product Innovation Center