2017 News and Updates

November 11, 2017

Gabriela Rodriguez from our REU program is presenting at Society of Neuroscience. She is part NIH Endure program. Learn more about Gabriela here.

October 31, 2017

Lilia Sanchez explains her summer REU research at ASEE conference.

August 10, 2017

The REUs and RETs present their summer research projects at the poster session.

August 9, 2017

REUs and RETs were awarded certificates of completion at this end-of-summer celebration.

July 26, 2017

REUs attended a Brown Bag seminar on global health.

July 19, 2017

The REUs joined their RET partners for a day of chemistry experiments.

June 29, 2017

A second group of REU students toured EPIC’s 3-D printing lab and showed off their souvenirs.

June 28, 2017

REU students and everyone at Photonics enjoyed free ice cream from a truck on Babbitt street.

June 27, 2017

A group of REU students went on a tour of BU’s 3-D printing facility at EPIC and took home some 3-D printed prizes.

June 23, 2017

In celebration of International Women in Engineering Day, Helen Fawcett treated several REU students to ice cream! INWED celebrated its first worldwide observance today after beginning in the United Kingdom in 2014. Learn more about International Women in Engineering Day here.

June 22, 2017

Another REU group does their takeoff session in the cleanroom and show off their personalized wafer designs, newly coated in gold.

June 20, 2017

Students from NSF REU participated in a takeoff session in the Photonics’ cleanroom. They donned full safety regalia to put the finishing touches on their wafer images by coating them in a layer of gold. Yes, real gold.