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Shrinking Down Soft Robots

A novel four-step process has been developed by researchers including Assistant Professor Tommaso Ranzani (ME) and Assistant Professor Sheila Russo (ME) to construct microfluidic origami for reconfigurable pneumatic/hydraulic (MORPH) systems. Their work, published in Advanced Materials, details the process and demonstrates its capabilities with the fabrication of a highly complex soft structure. More

Hearts, Minds, and Microbubbles

Prof. Porter wins $2.5 million grant from the NIA to develop a drug and a delivery system. Prof. Porter is partnering with Prof. Morgan. More

Xin Zhang Presents DeLisi Distinguished Lecture

Professor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE, ECE, BME), recipient of the 2018 Charles DeLisi Award and Distinguished Lecture, presented “Tailoring Electromagnetic and Acoustic Waves with MEMS and Metamaterials” on April 12. More

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Lighting up the Brain

Faced with a problem, David Boas will invent a way around it. Boas, the founding director of the Boston University Neurophotonics Center and a world leader in the field of neurophotonics, which uses light to peer inside the living brain, built a homemade Ethernet connection to speed his doctoral research (one year before the first web browser was unveiled) and wrote a software program to make a girlfriend's research go faster. More

Where I’m Coming From: Tyrone Porter

Tyrone Porter grew up in Detroit. At the time, he says, the city was about 75 percent black. Now he’s a College of Engineering associate professor of mechanical engineering and of biomedical engineering, where the demographics are very different. More

Smaller, Faster, Cheaper

Boston University engineering professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, ME, MSE) understands just how powerful it is to have direct access to your medical information. She’s working to make that “little revolution” a lot bigger through simple, portable tests for conditions like HPV, malaria, and chlamydia that patients can use worldwide. More

BME/MSE Professor Given Rice 360 Award

BME/MSE Professor Muhammad Zaman has been awarded the Rice 360 Inspiration Award, which is given to Global Health Professionals for their inspiration to the students... More

Counterfeit Viagra Is a Problem

In 2012, a cluster of people in Lahore, Pakistan, started dying inexplicably. Most were mid- to low-income patients who had received free medicine at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology. Within a week, over 200 people died. An investigation found that the patients’ high blood pressure medication had been contaminated with similar-looking antimalarial ingredients. More

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Karl and Barbone Elected as AIMBE Fellows

Professor Paul Barbone (ME, MSE) and Professor W. Clem Karl (ECE, SE) have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. More

Xin Zhang to Deliver DeLisi Lecture

To recognize their contributions to engineering and society, Professor Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) is the recipient of this year’s Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture, and Assistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME) has received the Early Career Excellence Award. More

When Slower Means Faster

As bacteria grow increasingly resistant to antibiotics, scientists are on the hunt for a fast way test how the bacteria infecting a patient will respond to a particular antibiotic. Professor Kamil Ekinci (ME, MSE), Assistant Professor Chuanhua Duan (ME, MSE) and postdoctoral fellow Vural Kara, along with collaborators from the BU School of Medicine, have developed a new rapid antibiotic susceptibility test that works by measuring the movements of bacteria More

Insights into Instabilities

In two recent papers published in Physical Review Letters, Associate Professor Douglas Holmes (ME, MSE) outlines two different concepts that push forward our understanding of how soft matter behaves under instable conditions like growth. More

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Three ENG Professors Elected OSA Fellows

Professor David Boas (BME, ECE), Professor Selim Ünlü (ECE, MSE), and Associate Professor Luca Dal Negro (ECE, MSE, Physics) have been elected as Fellows of The Optical Society (OSA). More

Single-dose drug delivery system creates hope for streamlined cancer treatment

An interdisciplinary team of biomedical engineers, chemists, and clinicians led by Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME) has developed a novel sustained-release, biodegradable nanoparticle system that carries a common cancer drug to deliver a therapeutic dose in one injection that has the same curative effect as the standard multi-dose effect. More

Wong Named AAAS Fellow

Professor Joyce Y. Wong (BME, MSE) has been named a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). More

A Hidden Pathway is Revealed

Two BME researchers were excited to use a new 3D blood vessel-on-a-chip that they developed in Professor Christopher Chen’s (BME, MSE) lab because it provided a perfect platform for studying the effects of mechanical forces of blood flow on vessels in life-like conditions. More

Dean’s Catalyst Awards Turn 10

Science can be a risky investment. Large government institutions that hold the purse strings to research dollars want to know their investment is sound. But great scientific ideas don’t always come with a guarantee of success. More

BU Materials Day 2017

On September 29, 2017, Professor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE) hosted BU Materials Day 2017 in PHO 906. The workshop featured speakers from all over the... More

Celebrating an ENG Research Milestone

The sounds of chatter and laughter bounced about as professors, administrators and leaders from Boston University came together to celebrate the beginning of a research endeavor that could change the way doctors treat heart disease. More

Robot Boats and Drug Subs

ENG prof and students developing autonomous boats to find drug traffickers 09.28.2017 By David Levin. Video by Devin Hahn Originally published in BU Today In 2016, US... More