Marcia McNutt, the President of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), discussed the role of science in what has been called the “post-truth” era when she gave the 2019 Pardee Center Distinguished Lecture at the GSU Metcalf Ballroom on March 5. The lecture, titled “The Past, Present & Future of Truth,” was sponsored by the […]
Emily Whiting, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, was recently awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, given each year to 126 of the US and Canada’s most promising early-career scholars. Whiting, who builds software tools design novices can use to create models for their structures, will use funds from her Sloan Research Fellowship to further advance […]
The College of Engineering and Smith College are pioneering an innovative 4+1 BS-MS partnership program. The program will offer Smith College Bachelor of Science engineering students enriching research experiences as they prepare to enroll in one of BU’s Master of Science engineering programs. Read the full announcement here.
Sahar Sharifzadeh, a College of Engineering assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and materials science and engineering, was just named one of 11 Rising Stars of Science by Scientific American. Sharifzadeh’s research focuses on understanding how certain classes of materials, called excitonic materials, interact with light and how that understanding can be used to […]
Kate Saenko, an associate professor of computer science, was spotlighted in a recent BU Research article discussing her work investigating how neural networks’ decision-making processes can be understood by and explained to humans. As artificial intelligence plays an increasingly important role in the lives of humans, its internal learning and reasoning processes need to become move […]
Sarah Davies, an assistant professor of biology, has been spotlighted in a BU Research article on her work as a coral researcher. In the article, Davies discusses her role in investigating the sudden and troubling July 2016 coral reef die-off in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Texas and Louisiana. […]
Biology faculty members Jennifer Bhatnagar and Pam Templer were recently featured in a WBUR article “Lowly In Stature, Fungi Play A Big Role In Regulating The Climate.” In it, Bhatnagar and Templer discuss how fungi are influencing climate by influencing the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and explain the complex fungi-climate connection and […]
Assistant Professor Emily Ryan was recently featured in a BU Today article highlighting her work on computational models to improve the capacity of lithium and metal batteries. Ryan and her Computational Energy Laboratory are investigating ways to break up dendrite growth in lithium ion batteries which can lead to degradation and possibly a dangerous explosion. […]
Associate Professor Malika Jeffries-EL from the Department of Chemistry has recently been named a 2018 ACS Fellow by the American Chemical Society. Read more in BU Today.
On May 10 ARROWS was honored to have Imperial College London President Alice Gast give our 2018 Annual Lecture. In a lecture entitled “A Checklist for Women in STEM,” attended by University President Robert Brown, Provost Jean Morrison, and many other distinguished members of the Boston University community, Dr. Gast spoke about the importance of […]