Staying a Step Ahead of Viral Mutations
A 2024 Beckman Young Investigator, Michelle Teplensky aims to make the same vaccine more effective and longer-lasting.
Abundantly Clear
With $5 mil from the DoE, a BU team works to bring down the cost of green hydrogen.
Joyce Wong Joins Biomaterials Elite
Wong joins a group of less than 500 of the most respected biomaterials scientists around the globe.
A Robot on a Mission
Making the most efficient energy-absorbing material ever.
ENG Graduation: Engineered for Kindness
“You found a way to make it work, to help others, and to invest in the greatest gift one can ever give or receive, your education.”
Zhang Wins the 2024 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
Xin Zhang is a pioneer in metamaterials.
Students design healthcare solutions for the underserved
The Biomedical Engineering Society, in collaboration with Bioengineering Technology & Entrepreneurship Center (BTEC), hosted the second annual BTEC x BMES Design-A-Thon on April 27th. The design challenged students to developing a product or service that will yield positive health outcomes for, and/or increase access, to healthcare technologies in underserved communities.
Boston Teens Pitch Biotech Concepts to BU “Investors” at Biological Design Center’s STEM Pathways Event
The experience taught the students valuable skills and got them thinking like real engineers and biotech developers.
Yang and Gopalan Now Full Professors
Two materials experts from ENG are among the 22 faculty on BU’s Charles River Campus who have been promoted to the rank of full professor.
BU’s Innovator of the Year Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy, Microscopy, Eye Exams
The director of the University’s cross-disciplinary Photonics Center, Bifano is the 14th winner of the award, given to an “outstanding faculty member who has translated world-class research into an invention or innovation that benefits humankind.” A holder of 10 patents, he’s also chief technology officer of Boston Micromachines Corporation, a company he cofounded to develop and market deformable mirrors and other optics products.