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Béla Suki to Deliver 2025 DeLisi Lecture
The Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture recognizes extraordinary researchers and inventors of transformative technologies. More
GWISE Creates Community to Support Women in Science and Engineering Fields
Graduate Women in Science and Engineering at Boston University builds its community through three pillars: social, mentorship and outreach, and professional development. More
Dean’s Faculty Leadership Fellows Begin Work
Bunch and Farny are the first recipients of the new fellowship. More
Presidential Honors
Michelle Sander is the recipient of a PECASE, the US government’s highest honor for early-career researchers. More
Dean Announces First Faculty to Earn New Awards for Lab Equipment
“The quality of the research that these inaugural infrastructure awards will support is incredible." More
Innovative Tissue Engineering: A Pioneering New Method Explained
"This approach allows us to build tissue successfully in many different shapes, using soft materials." More
Rocks and Rope, Strengthened by Seeds
A MacGyver-like post-disaster repair job that gets a boost from biology. More
Renewable Power Without the Power Washing
ENG alums' green tech startup might save 4 billion gallons of water a year. More
Designing a Vaccine That Helps the Most Vulnerable
"The goal is to create a more potent and broad response with a single injection." More
Accelerating an Equitable Clean Energy Transition
Ryan and IGS colleagues will lead data analysis as Mass. empowers communities while advancing sustainability. More
Engineered Microwaves Might Fight Epilepsy, Pain, and Parkinson’s
The team's novel system stops seizures by temporarily suppressing neurons that are firing excessively. More
Xin Zhang Featured in American Scientist
The metamaterials pioneer spoke at length with the prestigious science magazine's editor-in-chief. More
BU MSE-GSA Organizes Informative Tour of Greentown Labs for Graduate Students
The Boston University MSE-GSA organized a tour of Greentown Labs (GTL) in Somerville, MA, offering graduate students a unique and enlightening experience. More
Boston University Materials Science & Engineering Graduate Students Association recognized with Chapters of Excellence Award
MSE GSA win the 2023-24 Material Advantage Chapters of Excellence award for their work. More
5 ENG Faculty Featured at Research on Tap
The event showcased some of BU’s star researchers, celebrating how they cross and blur disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of innovation. More
Just How Safe Are Soft Robots?
Sabelhaus and students are working on novel ways to improve how soft robots are controlled. More
New Textile for Smarter, Sturdier Fitness Tracking Tech
The novel metamaterial overcomes sweat, salt water, and security challenges More
Ignition Awards for ENG Researchers
The awards accelerate the advancement of promising new technology, identifying a pathway to bring a new product to market. More
A New Type of RNA Could Revolutionize Vaccines and Cancer Treatments
What seemed at first like a dead end might someday lead to longer-lasting and safer vaccines. More
BU Professor Bridging Sustainability with Innovation in Material Science and Beyond
Dr. Werner brings interdisciplinary collaboration into pursuing sustainable solutions. More
Pratt Named a Rita Allen Scholar
This prestigious grant will help the liquid biopsy expert and her multidisciplinary team develop a tool to track tumors. More
NSF Grant to Help BU PhD Students Attack Climate Change
The research traineeship grant will help PhD students collaborate on new ways to convert and store sustainable energy. More
Dunlop, Holmes, and Stringhini Earn ENG Honors
The awards recognize the mid-career faculty members' contributions to research and teaching. More
Making MRI More Globally Accessible
Zhang's work has led to a string of breakthrough devices that can sharpen and speed up MRI imaging of knees, ankles, spines, and more. More
Mark Grinstaff Earns NSF Trailblazer Award to Develop New Vaccine Technology
“This award might open up new avenues of treatment that are not available today." More
Summer Research Fellowships Announced
Thanks to generous alumni, undergrads are working as full-time lab researchers this summer. More
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. More
Albro Garners NSF CAREER Award
An advanced method of joint repair. More
Abundantly Clear
With $5 mil from the DoE, a BU team works to bring down the cost of green hydrogen. More
Photos from the 2024 ASM Materials Experience.
On May 20, 2024, Boston University hosted the ASM Materials Experience, a free, one-day program. BU graduate students and other volunteers put together a fun-filled... More
MSE 2024 Graduation Photos
See this slideshow to view our wonderful graduates from Materials, we can't wait to see where you take your degrees, and are so proud of... More
Joyce Wong Joins Biomaterials Elite
Wong joins a group of less than 500 of the most respected biomaterials scientists around the globe. More
Zhang Wins the 2024 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
Xin Zhang is a pioneer in metamaterials. More
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. More
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. More
Emily Ghosh: Working at SpaceX, and Researching Renewable Energy Technologies for a Cleaner Environment
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. More
Ramachandran Named an AAAS Fellow
Ramachandran is being recognized for distinguished achievements throughout a career as a leading scholar in photonics and optics. More
Newly Appointed Materials Science Engineering Faculty
Welcome to our newly appointed faculty members! Read below to find out about their research interests, their primary appointments and what they are delving into at... More
Ji-Xin Cheng Delivers 2024 DeLisi Lecture
The cutting-edge imaging techniques developed by Cheng have advanced the field and are in use in labs and clinics around the globe. More
Pioneering Pathways
"We need everyone — not just women — to contribute to addressing problems in women’s health." More
Moustakas Garners Optica’s Holonyak Award
The distinguished professor of photonics and optoelectronics revolutionized the semiconductor field. More
Big Award for Bold Plans in 3D Printing
The grant will enable Boley to accelerate the discovery and fabrication of advanced 3D printing inks. More
This Is Something I Can Do
Boston-area high school students spend five weeks of the summer working full-time in the labs of BME faculty researchers solving real-world problems. More
Revealed: Dazzling Molecular Details of Living Cells and Organisms
“If we could use the intrinsic chemical bonds within every molecule to visualize biology, we could achieve better molecular information without relying on labeling." More
Zhang to Join European Academy of Sciences and Arts
The non-governmental association is committed to promoting scientific and societal progress. More
Unveiling a New Era of Imaging: BU Engineers Lead Breakthrough Microscopy Techniques
Ji-Xin Cheng and colleagues have made significant advancements in the field of vibrational imaging. More
Photos from the Saint Gobain 2023 Lecture
On Dec. 1 at 4 p.m., Professor Robert J. Cava spoke to MSE students in his lecture, "Working at the Boundary Where Solid State Chemistry, More
Anubhav Wadehra: Using Molten Salts to Develop a More Sustainable World
For 20 years, the small city of Chandigarh, India, charged his curiosity for science. Anubhav Wadehra graduated from Punjab Engineering College in 2017 with his bachelor's in materials and metallurgical engineering. During a six-month internship in 2016 at Boston University, he decided to take his curiosity even further. More
Clearing the Air
For subs, spacecraft and more, Werner is working on a novel material that would capture CO2 in a targeted and efficient way. More
Xin Zhang Earns Sigma Xi’s Chubb Award
The prestigious Walston Chubb Award for Innovation is the latest in a string of honors for this pioneer of metamaterials. More