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Announcing the Winners of the 2013 MSE Graduate Student Photo Contest
First Prize Winner of $100: Deniz Cetin Yang Yu and Deniz Cetin are adjusting pressure and flow parameters for an experiment. (Photo credit: JiaPeng Xu) Second Prize Winner of $50:...
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Oil for the Joints: Grinstaff Advances New Osteoarthritis Treatment
By Mark Dwortzan Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry) A team of researchers led by a Boston University Biomedical Engineer has developed a new joint lubricant that could bring longer lasting...
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BU Team Soars at MIT Clean Energy Competition: Wins First Prize in Energy...
By Mark Dwortzan Team Aeolus Building Efficiency--Professor Michael Gevelber (ME, MSE, SE), David Cushman (GSM'14), Jonathan Ellermann (GSM'13), Ryan Cruz (ME'13) and Benjamin Smith (GSM'13)--with...
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Second Annual MSE Innovation Grant Winners Announced
The MSE Innovation Grant Program aims to encourage innovation in as-yet-unproven technologies. The one-time grants of $10,000 each can be used for equipment, salary for a student or postdoc, travel or...
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MSE Colloquium student hosts help arrange the speaker’s schedule and help with logistics for their visit to BU. The faculty hosts and the Division administrators appreciate their assistance! Thank you...
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Zaman Receives $3M Grant to Model How Cancer Spreads: NIH Funds Five-Year...
By Mark Dwortzan Associate Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) Despite deep cuts in federal research spending due to sequestration, Associate Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) has secured a five-year...
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ECE Team, Verbal, Wins People’s Choice Award at ITEC Competition
Story written by Rachel Harrington The makers of Verbal present at the ITEC Pitch & Pizza Competition. Pictured from left to right are Gregory Zoeller (ECE'12), Eric Hsiao (ECE'12) and Nick...
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Tien Selected as the 2013 College of Engineering Professor of the Year
Congratulations to Associate Professor Joe Tien (BME, MSE), who was selected as the 2013 College of Engineering Professor of the Year by the senior class!
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Fighting H1N1 with Tobacco Plants: Project earns Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize...
By Amy Laskowski Andre Sharon, a College of Engineering professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Fraunhofer USA Center for Manufacturing Innovation, received the 2013 Joseph von...
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Gut Reactions: Intestinal Viruses Could be Breeding Ground for Resistant...
By Mark Dwortzan Professor James J. Collins (BME, MSE, SE) As more and more bacteria show resistance to antibiotics, researchers are redoubling their efforts to uncover pathways by which this...
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The Internet Is Getting Bigger: ENG prof corkscrews light to move more data...
By Mark Dwortzan ENG Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) has demonstrated a promising new way to boost fiber-optic data rates. Photo courtesy of the College of Engineering If you thought there...
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BU Innovator of the Year: ENG’s Theodore Moustakas
Recognized for scientific contributions with commercial potential By Kira Jastive Jean Morrison, University provost and chief academic officer, presents the Innovator of the Year Award to Theodore...
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Zaman Wins IEEE Early Career Teaching Award
By Mark Dwortzan Associate Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) Associate Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) has won the IEEE Education Society’s Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award, which...
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Building a Better Tooth: Prof. Giordano invents material for dental...
By Leslie Friday Dr. Russell Giordano invented a hybrid material that promises to revolutionize dental restorations. Photos by Cydney Scott The task seemed so simple: take some conventional ceramic,...
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Klapperich Demos Power-Free RNA Extraction Device: System Could Enable...
By Mark Dwortzan Associate Professor Catherine Klapperich (BME, MSE) has modified her System for Nucleic Acid Purification (SNAP) to extract RNA from blood samples. The technology could enable...
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Saving More Lives at Birth: Zaman and Indonesian Researcher Win Prestigious...
By Mark Dwortzan Associate Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) Associate Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) has won one of 16 grants issued by the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research...
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Recruiting Tomorrow’s Women Scientists and Engineers: Summer Pathways Opens...
By Amy Laskowski, BU Today Summer Pathways students Kristen Copley (left) and Jacquie Claveau hook up their visible light transceivers during a session with Professor Thomas Little (ECE, SE), the...
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Connecting the Dots: New “Atom Calligraphy” Technology Could Lead to...
By Mark Dwortzan Professor David Bishop (ECE, Physics, MSE) and collaborators at BU and Bell Laboratories have developed a low-cost, microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based method that directs atoms...
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Wong Elected as Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow
Recognized for Innovations in Cardiovascular Disease Detection and Treatment By Mark Dwortzan Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE) Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE), a world leader in the emerging field of...
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Jasti Group Hosts Steppingstone Students
For a second year in a row, Professor Ramesh Jasti‘s (Chemistry, MSE) group has hosted students from the Steppingstone Foundation to share with them the excitement of nanoscale research....
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