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• <a href="http://www.bu.edu/dbin/bme/faculty/?prof=jcollins">Personal web page</a>
• He has been featured among Technology Review’s top 100 young innovators who will shape the future (1999) as well as 
  Scientific American’s top 50 outstanding leaders in science and technology (2005).
• Dr. Collins has built his career at Boston University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, beginning in 1990, 
  rising through the faculty ranks to professor, and founding the department’s Center for BioDynamics in 1997, 
  which he currently codirects.
• He won Boston University’s highest teaching honor in 2000, the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 
  and in that year also won the Early Career Achievement Award of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
• Dr. Collins received his baccalaureate degree in physics from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass. 
  and his doctor of philosophy degree in medical engineering from the University of Oxford, England, where 
  he was a Rhodes Scholar. Since 1999 he has been a University Professor within Boston University’s 
  University Professors Program, an interdisciplinary program for gifted students.