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Can Droplets be Used to Stop, Instead of Spread, Disease?
ENG, CDC researchers quantify how droplet formation might damage microbes, reducing disease transmission By Patrick L. Kennedy It happens in a flash. As you cough up a... More

Khalil, Denmore and Zhang elected to AIMBE College of Fellows
The AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer, and includes the field’s outstanding leaders, engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators. More

Assistant Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh awarded $720K to advance field of supramolecular materials
By Alex LaSalvia Assistant Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh (ECE, MSE) was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to develop computational models of bio-inspired materials. The award of... More

‘Happy and Proud,’ Declares Dissertation Award Recipient
Alumnus Update: 2020 SE Dissertation Award Winner Ruidi Chen By Emily Sorkin As an applied scientist at Microsoft, alumnus Ruidi Chen (SE PhD ’19) has already established herself as... More

Professor Cheng Awarded $2.4 Million Grant by NIH

Lewis Awarded Sloan Fellowship
The award funding will further the biomedical engineer's research on brain function By Jessica Colarossi Laura Lewis (BME) has been awarded a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship, More

Francesco Orabona wins CAREER award for work on machine learning
Assistant Professor Francesco Orabona (ECE, SE, CS) won the National Science Foundation CAREER award for his work on new, more automated, machine learning algorithms. Machine learning... More

Plastics: Durable, Diverse, and Indestructible
PBS broadcast NOVA invites Professor Malika Jeffries-EL (Chemistry, MSE) to explain plastics. Watch the full PBS segment here Brief episode abstract: Through a series of lab experiments, "Beyond... More

This 10-Foot-Long Machine Churns Out 2,000 Face Masks an Hour
BU engineers say the printing press–like machine could be installed at, and used by, hospitals, corporations, and universities By Rich Barlow, Video by Devin Hahn, Photography by Cydney... More
Machine, Meet Stem Cells
By Sarah Williams for Gladstone Institutes Model organs grown from patients’ own cells may one day revolutionize how diseases are treated. A person’s cells, coaxed into... More
Densmore elected AIMBE Fellow
Professor Douglas Densmore was elected to the 2021 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. More

Wong Lab Develops Smarter Cancer-Killing Cells

Spring 2021 CISE-ENG Seed Awards Winners
By Margo Stanton Four Spring 2021 Seed Grants were awarded by the Boston University Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) and the College of Engineering’s (ENG)... More

Meet BU’s Newest Engineers to be Named AAAS Fellows
Excerpts from an article by Jessica Colarossi for The Brink Uday Pal turns moon dust into oxygen, and Catherine Klapperich develops disease diagnostics for low-resource communities Each... More

Society For Biomaterials Honors Professor Joyce Wong
Professor Joyce Wong received the prestigious 2020 Clemson Award for Basic Research. The award acknowledges an original and outstanding contribution to the basic knowledge and understanding of the interaction between materials and tissue. More
Accessible autonomous vehicle system wins semifinalist position in DOT competition
By Alex LaSalvia As the promise of self-driving cars inches closer to reality for the general public, how do we ensure this technology is accessible to... More

New Frontiers in Self-driving Cars
Goyal Research Team Breaks Conventions, Develops Novel 3D Imaging Methods Designed for the Real World LIDAR, used in most self-driving cars, models the world around them... More
New Robotics & Autonomous Systems Master’s Draws Strong Interest
Students, companies eager to participate By Michael Seele Start a new master’s degree program, put together a curriculum, and recruit students less than a year before classes... More

Klapperich, Pal Named AAAS Fellows
By Patrick L. Kennedy Two College of Engineering faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest... More

Advancing Corporate-Academic Partnerships
The College of Engineering recognizes it has entered an era motivating, more than ever before, mutually beneficial partnerships between biomedical industry and academia. Ideally, companies can align with academic partners along three key axes: technology translation; corporate-university research; and ensuring a maximally valued future workforce, one prepared for the most recent emerging techniques. More