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.
MSE Students & Alumnus Awarded for Research & Academic Accomplishments
Three current and former MSE PhD students have recently been recognized internally and externally for their notable academic and research achievements. With the support of their professors, they have made valuable contributions to both the Division of MSE and the College of Engineering, and the Division is proud to celebrate their awards. Chloe Kekedjian […]
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 thread of the fluid that lines your respiratory tract, it breaks into tiny droplets, as small as a micrometer in diameter. Some of those droplets, or aerosols, might […]
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, one of the most prestigious awards for early-career scientists. Lewis and BU computer scientist Alina Ene are two of 126 fellows chosen this year, and each will receive a […]
Wong Lab Develops Smarter Cancer-Killing Cells
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 general scientific society. Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE, ME) and Professor Uday Pal (ME, MSE) were selected for extraordinary achievements in their fields by the AAAS Council. The nonprofit […]
Bad Medicine
Biomedical Engineer and Materials Science Engineer Muhammad Zaman received a disturbing call from a friend. There was trouble in Pakistan. People were dying from a mysterious illness, and all of the victims had one thing in common: they had been treated at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology.