Wireless, customizable coaxially shielded coils for magnetic resonance imaging
Faculty: Stephan Anderson, Xin Zhang | Outlet: Science Advances
Dr. Thomas Bifano to Serve as Interim Vice President and Associate Provost for Research
Gloria Waters will be BU’s new provost; a new Office of Strategy & Innovation is being created
Xin Zhang Wins the 2024 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
Distinguished Professor of Engineering Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) at Boston University, has been selected to receive the 2024 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award from the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
A Robot on a Mission – Brink Article
See how an autonomous robot created a shock–absorbing shape no human ever could—and what it means for designing safer helmets, packaging, car bumpers, and more
Emily Ghosh: Working at SpaceX, and Researching Renewable Energy Technologies for a Cleaner Environment
By Chloe Cramutola They tasked her to build a vacuum chamber she knew nothing about –– but she realized the project paired her love for physics with hands-on learning.
Five Photonics Center Faculty Granted Hariri Institute Focused Research Program Awards
The Hariri Institute of Computing recently announced their 2024 Fellows and 2025 Focused Research Program (FRP) award recipients. Among the FRP recipients included five Photonics Center faculty members: “Privacy Preserving Energy Analytics for Data Centers;” Ajay Joshi “From Self-Driving Labs to Community-Driven Labs;” Keith Brown, Catherine Klapperich “Multimodal Transformer Architectures for Neuropathology Study of Alzheimer’s […]
Dr. Thomas Bifano, 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”
Sean Lubner Receives Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
Professor Sean Lubner was awarded a prestigious YIP from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
New STAT Article from Catherine Klapperich
Powerful groups of mostly men are making major decisions about biology and bodies they know little about. Embryos in deep freeze that may never be used are just the latest example.
Brian Walsh’s LEXI Telescope Heading to the Moon
Last week (3/6/24), Associate Professor Brian Walsh hosted an event for their NASA-sponsored Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), an x-ray telescope which will be going to the moon later this year. Over the course of the last fifteen years, Professor Walsh and colleagues have worked to develop novel x-ray imaging system to better image […]