By Jack Osmond, Photos by Kelly Peña If you went to summer camp, you’ll remember the feeling well: leaving home, sometimes for weeks at a time, learning new things and meeting new people. You might think of archery, rowing, campfires and fireworks as the dog days of summer stretch on. What might not come to […]
This week the Boston University Photonics Center held a booth at the Biomedical Engineering Society conference!🔬 Graduate students from the BU College of Engineering played a key role in sharing insights about life at BU, including 2022 REU participant Nolan Vild! We were also thrilled to reconnect with another former REU, Anastasiia Rudaeva, at the […]
Today, our 2024 summer research participants showcased their projects to the BU Research Community! Our cohort had the opportunity to connect and learn from one another over engaging discussions about the discoveries over the past 10 weeks. Check out the full list of 2024 research projects here!
We are delighted to share that 2023 REM participant Maxwell Barrueta from UC Santa Barbara attended the Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM this past weekend, where he won 1st Runner Up in the REM Undergraduate Poster Award category for his research on “Making Heart Tissue Dance” with the Bifano Lab! Max worked under the […]
“Leaving your hometown, home state, even home country can be trying for any college student. For these five students, Boston University was the perfect place to find a new community, following their time here last summer.” Be sure to read Danny Giancioppo’s full feature on our five REUs joining BU this semester and the research they plan […]
Xin Zhang (REU INM Program Director) and Thomas Bifano (Photonics Center Director and REU INM co-PI) joined our undergraduates and teachers to celebrate an amazing summer. Students and teachers gathered to reflect on conducting research at Boston University and enjoyed each other’s company one last time. REU Cohort INM: Jordan Jones, Alix Wagner, Ben Auer, […]
On August 10, the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) summer programs ended with a jam-packed poster session in the Photonics Center! Check out the full story on our website or read about it on LinkedIn.
Thursday, August 10, 2023, 2-4PM BU Photonics Center, 9th Floor Atrium Light refreshments will be served Photonics REU/RET Posters NSF RET Site in Integrated Nanomanufacturing: Sara Anees (Leuko & Bifano): Engineered Heart Tissue Scaffold Design for Long Term Mechanical Stimulation Benjamin Auer (Ling): Atomic Substitution of 2D WS2: Exploring Thickness Dependent Reactivity and Preventing Decomposition Ethan Hathaway (Leuko […]
Check out pictures from our annual Ice Cream Truck event at the Photonics Center! Our REUs, RETs, and their mentors were amongst the many who attended this community event.
The NSF REU Application for Summer 2023 is open. Applications are due March 15, 2023. More information about our REU programs can be found on the website.