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Medical Devices
Building robotics for surgery. More

Cross-disciplinary research teams win Kilachand funding
Five Studies Pushing the Limits of Science: This year’s Kilachand fund awards will support pioneering research across engineering and life sciences More

Soft Robotics, 4D Printing: Undergrad Luce Scholars Present Research
Three ENG winners of the 2021 Clare Boothe Luce Scholar Award presented their research during the 24th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the George Sherman... More

Leopold Felsen Memorial Lecture
Mark Moldwin Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering University of Michigan Friday, October 22, 2021 | 11 AM | 110 Cummington Avenue, room 245 Special... More

It Looks Loopy, But It Works
Loops of string make rock piles stand tall in study by Holmes and Guerra By Patrick L. Kennedy Say a missile or an earthquake has just damaged... More

Tiny Satellite Will Take Widest Ever Images of Earth’s and the Sun’s Magnetic Fields Colliding
Images captured by the probe, developed by BU engineers, could reveal new insights into radiation that impacts satellites, astronauts By Kat J. McAlpine A first-of-its-kind satellite, designed... More

Small Satellite, Big Questions: CuPID CubeSat Will Get New Perspective on Sun-Earth Boundary
Professor Brian Walsh lead the development a spacecraft that uses novel Lobster-eye optics to measure X- rays in space. It will launch into space on September 23, 2021. More

Where You Bring Ideas Into Reality
New EPIC Director Anna Thornton sees the cutting-edge facility as a place where faculty, students and industry work together to solve engineering challenges With a... More

AHA Moment: Lejeune Awarded Funding for Heart Cell Data Work
By Patrick L. Kennedy With a promising technology aimed at combating heart disease, Assistant Professor Emma Lejeune (ME) has earned the American Heart Association (AHA) Career... More

These Soft Robotic Grippers Were Inspired by an Ancient Japanese Art Form
Douglas Holmes, BU PhD student Yi Yang and alum Katie Vella explain how they were inspired a traditional Japanese art of paper cutting (cousin of origami paper-folding art), to design soft robotic grippers. Their work was published in in Science Robotics. More