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Sean Lubner receives Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award.
Professor Sean Lubner was awarded a prestigious YIP from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. His project, titled "Investigating Coupled Thermal, Mechanical, and Electrical... More

Could Boston Be the Next City to Impose Congestion Pricing?
An ENG-trained traffic expert says the Hub might benefit from congestion pricing, among other measures. More

Vivek Goyal Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
Goyal earned the prestigious honor in part on the strength of his prediction-making algorithms and his ground-breaking imaging technology. More

Speeding the Healing of Wounds in Old Age
With the support of a new $2 million grant from the Hevolution Foundation, Eyckmans’ team will study impaired wound healing through a synthetic biology framework. More

BU mechanical engineering student Sanika D. Barve is studying fabric rings head carriers use
BU mechanical engineering student Sanika D. Barve has been studying how different types of fabric rings help people carry a variety of loads on their heads, from heavy pots of water to ever-shifting bags of rice. 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

Professor Cheng Receives Spectrochemical Analysis Award
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng has been named the recipient of this year’s American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award. More

Pioneering Pathways
"We need everyone — not just women — to contribute to addressing problems in women’s health." More

Opening Doors
Rhonda Harrison (ENG’98,’04, GRS’04), CEO of Biopharmix Consulting, is working to foster diversity in STEM workplaces and to inspire students. More

The Bold World of Marcus Wachira
Wachira's ENG studies helped him flesh out the technological scaffolding of the sci-fi devices in his new book, which reached a top-20 list on Amazon. More

Bridge Collapse Creates Conversation in BU Structural Mechanics Class
When you teach a college course that’s a mechanical engineering advanced elective called ME309-Structural Mechanics, the shocking collapse of a 47-year-old bridge makes for some pretty interesting classroom discussion. More

Professor Wenchao Li Earns NSF CAREER Award
Professor Li’s project aims to overcome fundamental challenges in Imitation Learning for AI systems. More

Bringing the Brain Into Focus
Professor Tianyu Wang receives grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative for reinventing a quantum-inspired light source to improve deep-tissue imaging. More

Ji-Xin Cheng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture
Ji-Xin Cheng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture Rabia Yazicigil earns Early Career Research Excellence Award In recognition of their contributions to engineering and society, the Moustakas Chair... More

“The Hub of the Robotics Universe”
RASTIC is a state-of-the-art facility where students can design, build, and test a range of robotic solutions to real-world problems 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

Early Career Excellence: Professor Rabia Yazicigil Recognized By NSF and BU College of Engineering
Professor Rabia Yazicigil’s outstanding contributions have been doubly recognized, with the recent conferral of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Early Career Excellence in Research Award from the BU College of Engineering. More

University hiring must be centrally organized around convergence
Today there is no disagreement that the considerable challenges facing humanity can only be addressed by bringing together expertise from across the academic disciplines. From decarbonizing economies to harnessing AI for the good of society, solutions will require unprecedented levels of creativity and interconnection of traditionally distinct disciplines – which, following others (mostly in STEM fields), I refer to as “convergence”. More