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March 20, 2023 | Duke Engineering

Gigapixel 3D Microscope Captures Life in Unprecedented Detail

Stitching videos from dozens of cameras together provides unique 3D view of macroscopic experiments with microscopic detail

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October 10, 2022 | Duke Engineering

Celebrating Summer Award Season

Duke Engineering faculty and students garnered a wide array of awards and recognitions over the summer

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October 10, 2022 | Duke Engineering

Smartwatches Can Help Guide COVID-19 Testing

Data from smartwatches can help identify people with likely COVID-19 infections, enabling physicians to catch more cases with fewer tests

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October 04, 2022 | Duke Engineering

Randles Wins NIH Director’s Pioneer Award to Predict Heart Disease Risks

Open-ended, $3.5 million award will help tie complex models of blood flow to simple heartbeat measurements through AI

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October 03, 2022 | Duke Engineering

Collaborative Team of Neural Engineers Receive SPARC Grant to Map Body's "Super Highway"

NIH awards $15.75M to research team led by Case Western Reserve University and Duke University to map the vagus nerve

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September 23, 2022 | Duke Engineering

An AI Message Decoder Based on Bacterial Growth Patterns

New encryption method uses simulated bacterial growth based on specific initial conditions to form patterns corresponding to letters

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September 14, 2022 | Duke Engineering

Expanding the STEM Pipeline’s Flow Rate in Durham

Students from Durham, NC, learn engineering fundamentals through two summer outreach programs at Duke

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September 13, 2022 | Duke Engineering

Nanorattles Shake Up New Possibilities for Disease Detection

New nanoparticle shape can greatly enhance signals from multiple separate biomarkers at once, accurately detecting head and neck cancers without biopsies to improve global health

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September 13, 2022 | Duke University School of Medicine

Duke Engineering-hosted Cryo-EM is a Workhorse in Search for a Vaccine for HIV

Cryogenic electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) rapidly creates high-resolution images of the smallest pieces of proteins at the atomic level.

A. James Clark Scholars at Duke University

September 13, 2022 | A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation

Duke Welcomes Newest Clark Scholars from 8 US States, Australia and Ghana

Through tight-knit cohorts, the unique endowed program provides financial aid, dedicated advising, a summer bridge program, and opportunities for research and entrepreneurship.

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August 29, 2022 | Duke Engineering

Microbial Communities Stay Healthy By Swapping Knowledge

High levels of horizontal gene transfer could help researchers engineer useful microbiomes independent of unstable population dynamics