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Meet Dr. Sandra K. Johnson, Engineering “Hidden Figure”
When Dr. Sandra K. Johnson first tried her hand at electrical engineering during a summer institute in high school, she knew that she was born to be an electrical engineer. Now, as the first...
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Kicking Off a Summer of Research With Data+
If the May 28 kickoff meeting was any indication, it’s going to be a busy summer for the more than 80 students participating in Duke’s summer research program, Data+. Offered through the Rhodes...
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A Duke University professor says the time is ripe for new research on consciousness, and he needs your help. More than 800 teams pitched their best “big ideas” to a competition sponsored by the...
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Vulci 3000: A High-Tech Excavation
This summer I have the incredible opportunity to work with the Vulci 3000 Bass Connections team. The project focuses on combining archaeology and innovative technology to excavate and understand an...
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Vulci 3000: Technology in Archaeology
This is Anna’s second post from a dig site in Italy this summer. Read the first one here. Duke PhD Candidate Antonio LoPiano on Site Once home to Etruscan and Roman cities, the ruins found at Vulci...
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Hamlet is Everywhere. To Cite, or Not to Cite?
Some stories are too good to forget. With almost formulaic accuracy, elements from classic narratives are constantly being reused and retained in our cultural consciousness, to the extent that a room...
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Leaving the Louvre: Duke Team Shows How to Get out Fast
Students finish among top 1% in 100-hour math modeling contest against 11,000 teams worldwide Imagine trying to move the 26,000 tourists who visit the Louvre each day through the maze of galleries and...
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Big SMILES All Around for Polymer Chemists at Duke, MIT and Northwestern
Science is increasingly asking artificial intelligence machines to help us search and interpret huge collections of data, and it’s making a difference. But unfortunately, polymer chemistry — the study...
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The Making of queerXscape
Sinan Goknur On September 10th, queerXscape, a new exhibit in The Murthy Agora Studio at the Rubenstein Arts Center, opened. Sinan Goknur and Max Symuleski, PhD candidates in the Computational Media,...
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These Microbes ‘Eat’ Electrons for Energy
The human body is populated by a greater number of microbes than its own cells. These microbes survive using metabolic pathways that vary drastically from humans’. Arpita Bose’s research explores the...
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Predicting sleep quality with the brain
Modeling functional connectivity allows researchers to compare brain activation to behavioral outcomes. Image: Chu, Parhi, & Lenglet, Nature, 2018. For undergraduates, sleep can be as elusive as...
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Traveling Back in Time Through Smart Archaeology
The British explorer George Dennis once wrote, “Vulci is a city whose very name … was scarcely remembered, but which now, for the enormous treasures of antiquity it has yielded, is exalted above every...
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Games, Art, and New Frontiers
This is the third of several posts written by students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math as part of an elective about science communication with Dean Amy Sheck. Beneath Duke...
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First-Year Students Designing Real-World Solutions
In the first week of fall semester, four first-year engineering students, Sean Burrell, Teya Evans, Adam Kramer, and Eloise Sinwell, had a brainstorming session to determine how to create a set of...
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Origami-inspired robots that could fit in a cell?
Imagine robots that can move, sense and respond to stimuli, but that are smaller than a hair’s width. This is the project that Cornell professor and biophysicist Itai Cohen, who gave a talk on...
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Polymath Mae Jemison encourages bolder exploration, collaboration
Photo from Biography.com “I don’t believe that [going to] Mars pushes us hard enough.” This was just one of the bold, thought-provoking statements made by Dr. Mae Jemison, who came to speak at Duke on...
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Artificial Intelligence Innovation in Taiwan
Taiwan is a small island off the coast of China that is roughly one fourth the size of North Carolina. Despite its size, Taiwan has made significant waves in the fields of science and technology. In...
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If Netflix Died, Culture Might Die With It
What happens when Netflix dies? To open Duke Libraries’ Fair Use Week, Kyle Courtney, copyright advisor for Harvard University, and Will Cross, director of the Copyright and Digital Scholarship Center...
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A Day of STEM for Girls
On any average weekday at Duke University, a walk through the Engineering Quad and down Science Drive would yield the vibrant and exciting sight of bleary-eyed, caffeine-dependent college students...
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Students Dance Their Way Out of “AI Bias”
Martin Brooke is no ordinary Engineering professor at Duke University. He teaches computer scientists, engineers, and technology nerds how to dance. Brooke co-teaches Performance and Technology, an...
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