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Faculty on Social Media: Friend or Foe?
10/15/24 Pratt School of Engineering

Faculty on Social Media: Friend or Foe?

Examining the advantages and drawbacks of pursuing social media accounts as a researcher.

The Increasingly Inescapable Need to Integrate Ethics
10/15/24 Pratt School of Engineering

The Increasingly Inescapable Need to Integrate Ethics

Engineers are facing more ethical dilemmas in their professional lives than ever before. Students need to be taught how to handle them

Ken Gall
The Hard-Earned Lessons of Academic Entrepreneurs
10/15/24 Pratt School of Engineering

The Hard-Earned Lessons of Academic Entrepreneurs

Faculty entrepreneurs from Duke Engineering share their experiences of what it takes to spin a startup out of a university.

Hudson Hall at Duke university
NASA’s U-2 Spy Plane Found Gamma Rays in 90% of Lightning Storms
10/2/24 Popular Science

NASA’s U-2 Spy Plane Found Gamma Rays in 90% of Lightning Storms

Professor Steve Cummer says, "There is way more going on in thunderstorms than we ever imagined. As it turns out, essentially all big thunderstorms generate gamma rays all day long in many different forms.”

Most Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive
10/2/24 Pratt School of Engineering

Most Tropical Lightning Storms Are Radioactive

New observations from a retrofitted U2 spy plane reveal a surprising amount and variety of gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms

$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program
9/24/24 Pratt School of Engineering

$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program

The Karsh STEM+ Scholars Program will match undergraduate students who have declared majors in disciplines in the natural sciences, engineering, and STEM-related fields with faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.