BU Engineering

Co-founded by BU ENG's Ayse Coskun, Emerald AI has raised $24.5 million in seed funding, with backers including Nvidia; Google's chief scientist; and former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
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Elise Morgan is our next dean! BU Provost: Elise showed “exemplary leadership” over 2 yrs as interim dean. "She has established her own vision for the college as a laboratory for innovation and a training ground for premier engineering talent."
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In a key step toward a future of quantum computing, a joint BU-Berkeley-Northwestern team has demonstrated the first-ever electronic–photonic–quantum system on a chip, built in a commercial semiconductor foundry.
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“Can you explain how geothermal energy works and how it can be applied to housing? Is it ‘clean’ energy?” A reader asked the Bay State Banner those questions, and energy expert Emily Ryan helped to answer them....
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The pomelo fruit's complex, spongy peel protects it from falls of up to 50 feet. With a U.S. Navy grant, Greg McDaniel plans to figure out precisely what the pomelo is doing right, and translate that to a protective coating for a torpedo or a ship’s hull.
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