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Forbes.com 26 Aug 2013 | 11:55 pm
Headline: Righting the Ship on Higher Education Costs Faculty Members: Tom Katsouleas
Time 26 Aug 2013 | 11:41 pm
Headline: An End to Sunburn Pain: Scientists Say It’s Possible Faculty Members: Nan Marie Jokerst
The Rhodes Family Professor: Interdisciplinary Learning for the Information Age 26 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
Big data—a collection of massive amounts of widely varied and rapidly changing information—offers great potential for learning. And plenty of potential problems, too. read more
Science 23 Aug 2013 | 12:18 am
Headline: The CRISPR Craze Faculty Members: Charles Gersbach
Aeroelasticity at Duke: Why Fear Flutter? 19 Aug 2013 | 08:16 pm
Pratt aeroelasticity studies range from “heavenly” to “hellish” The great aerospace engineer, Theodore Von Karman, has been quoted as saying that those who do not understand flutter fear it, and thos...
Nature 8 Aug 2013 | 06:42 pm
Headline: Exotic optics: Metamaterial world
Entrepreneurs in ECE 6 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
Entrepreneurship success stories abound in Duke’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Look at Advanced Liquid Logic: founded in 2004 by ECE graduate students Vamsee Pamula and Michael P...
Broad-Scale Genome Tinkering With Help of an RNA Guide 5 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
By Kendall Morgan, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke researchers have devised a way to quickly and easily target and tinker with any gene in the human genome. The new ....
Making Summer Matter: Improving Health Care Through Engineering World Health 31 Jul 2013 | 12:34 am
On a recent trip to Guatemala, Duke Engineering student Ben Snowdon cooked rellenitos de plátnos, took salsa lessons and visited some local hot springs. But all that was just a bonus on top of the bi...
WUNC 30 Jul 2013 | 05:22 pm
Headline: Duke Researchers Design Toilet That Turns Waste Into Drinking Water Faculty Members: Marc Deshusses