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March 23, 2017
The “Citation Classic” That Redefined Microfluidics
In 2004, Duke Engineering researchers demonstrated the first digital lab-on-a-chip platform. Today, that breakthrough is now used in the products of three companies and changed the face of genetic screening.
March 22, 2017
Pajic Wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Grant will develop new techniques to guard against cyberattacks against cyber-physical systems.
March 20, 2017
Dean Bellamkonda on Immigration Policy and Attracting the Best Minds
To ensure the brightest minds tackle the biggest problems, Dean Ravi Bellamkonda explains, immigration reform shouldn't prevent foreign nationals from attending U.S. universities.
March 17, 2017
Duke Team's Undersea Robot Competes for $7 Million in Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Contest
Less than five percent of Earth’s seafloor has been mapped and explored, but a team of Duke University students is racing to change that.
March 14, 2017
Data-Savvy Students
A new course aims to make data competency a signature strength of every Duke Engineering undergraduate
March 08, 2017
Mikkelsen, Pajic Receive Naval Young Investigator Program Awards
Maiken Mikkelsen, the Nortel Networks Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and assistant professor of physics at Duke University, and Miroslav Pajic, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, have each won an Office of Naval Research Young [...]
March 07, 2017
Real Problems, Real Teamwork
Duke’s nationally recognized Data+ program brings teams of faculty and students together each summer to explore data-driven approaches to real-world problems—including many from clients such as Accenture, Fidelity Charitable and Duke Health. Impactful projects like the ones below will soon become [...]
March 03, 2017
Predicting Patient Outcomes
Less than 100 yards away from one of the Southeast’s busiest medical centers, Duke engineers Lawrence Carin and Ricardo Henao are working to keep people out of those inpatient beds. By designing algorithms to sift through reams of data in clinical records, the team is helping clinicians find better [...]
March 02, 2017
Modeling Traffic with Self-Driving Cars
Senior Efe Aras creates city street models to predict how self-driving cars might affect traffic by parking themselves
March 01, 2017
Simulating Many Heartbeats
Undergraduate Stephanie Musinsky is upgrading a supercomputer program that can simulate blood flow down to the cellular level