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A large grid of red cylinders with the front four having a diffuse light shining on them — Setting Boundaries Helps Machine Learning Find One-in-a-Trillion Solutions

7/27/21 Pratt School of Engineering

Setting Boundaries Helps Machine Learning Find One-in-a-Trillion Solutions

New “neural-adjoint” machine learning method can help researchers find optimal solutions in extremely large design spaces such as dielectric metamaterials for c

Steve Cummer of Duke University — Catching Waves

7/26/21 Pratt School of Engineering

Catching Waves

Q&A with ECE professor and metamaterials pioneer, Steve Cummer

female student in clean room suit at microscope — New Undergrad Certificate Offers Experience in Materials Science and Engineering

7/16/21 Pratt School of Engineering

New Undergrad Certificate Offers Experience in Materials Science and Engineering

Duke’s newest undergraduate certificate program covers fundamentals at the intersection of physics, chemistry and engineering

A closeup of a man's face with shiny machinery behind — Marvian Wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award

6/29/21 Pratt School of Engineering

Marvian Wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Prestigious five-year award will help develop a fundamental understanding of quantum mechanical phenomena such as quantum chaos and quantum thermodynamics

Daniel Sorin of Duke University — Higher Efficiency, Longer Lives

6/21/21 Pratt School of Engineering

Higher Efficiency, Longer Lives

A Q&A with Duke ECE professor and computer architecture expert Daniel Sorin

Tulip Garden — Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Invests in Duke Team’s Work to Improve Cryo-EM Images

6/17/21 Pratt School of Engineering

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Invests in Duke Team’s Work to Improve Cryo-EM Images

Project will use AI to make microscope more effective for 'visual proteomics'

Rocks, x-rays of rocks, a jumble of bluish light, multicolored images of the rocks, graphs showing different spectral responses — X-ray Scanner Spots Cancers and Analyzes Drugs in Minutes

6/9/21 Pratt School of Engineering

X-ray Scanner Spots Cancers and Analyzes Drugs in Minutes

New technology could speed cancer diagnosis, ensure surgeons remove 100% of a tumor and inspect drugs for dangerous chemicals

microscope — $100 Million to Advance Duke Science and Technology Research

6/8/21 Duke Today

$100 Million to Advance Duke Science and Technology Research

The Duke Endowment of Charlotte, N.C., is supporting Duke University’s efforts to expand its faculty in computation, materials science and the resilience of the body and brain by completing the second phase of a $100 million investment. This is the largest award Duke University has ever received.