{"id":112,"date":"2024-09-27T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2024-11-21T06:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T11:23:20","slug":"great-minds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/cure\/great-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Unquestionably Great Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth &amp; Environment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/earth\/profiles\/lucy-hutyra\/\"><strong>Lucy Hutyra<\/strong><\/a> was recently named a MacArthur Fellow. Hutyra won a so-called \u201cgenius grant\u201d for her work to understand the effect of urbanization on climate and ecosystems.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/vivek-goyal\/\"><strong>Vivek Goyal<\/strong><\/a>, professor of electrical and computer engineering, was selected as a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. His predictive algorithms and computational imaging discoveries have made it possible to photograph objects hidden by walls.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/profile\/chuanfei-dong\/\"><strong>Chuanfei Dong<\/strong><\/a>, biomedical engineer<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/hadi-nia-ph-d\/\"><strong>Hadi Nia<\/strong><\/a>, and neurobiologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/people\/profiles\/meg-younger\/\"><strong>Meg Younger<\/strong><\/a> were named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows. The fellowships will help these winners study, respectively, solar storms, lung disease, and how mosquitoes detect humans.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Biologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/people\/profiles\/ana-fiszbein\/\"><strong>Ana Fiszbein<\/strong><\/a>, mechanical engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/michael-albro-ph-d\/\"><strong>Michael Albro<\/strong><\/a>, data scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/math\/profile\/jonathan-huggins\/\"><strong>Jonathan Huggins<\/strong><\/a>, computer engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/rabia-yazicigil-ph-d\/\"><strong>Rabia Yazicigil<\/strong><\/a>, mechanical engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/andrew-sabelhaus\/\"><strong>Andrew Sabelhaus<\/strong><\/a>, computer engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/wenchao-li-ph-d\/\"><strong>Wenchao Li<\/strong><\/a>, and global development policy expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/rachel-brule\/\"><strong>Rachel Brul\u00e9<\/strong><\/a> won National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards to support their research, which has applications ranging from curing cancer to safer self-driving cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth &amp; Environment Lucy Hutyra was recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":0,"parent":106,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions\/327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}