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Pratt Celebrates Class of 2013 Graduation

May 21, 2013

Duke University awarded degrees to 527 undergraduate and graduate engineering students on Sunday, May 12 in ceremonies that began with university-wide commencement exercises at Wallace Wade Stadium and included Pratt School of Engineering...

Mechanical Engineering, Biology Intertwined

May 21, 2013

Several months into her Pratt Undergraduate Fellowship, Katrina Wisdom (E’12) was handed a mailer by her faculty advisor, Chuan-Hua Chen, Alfred M. Hunt Faculty Scholar and assistant professor of mechanical engineering.

New Method for Producing Clean Hydrogen

May 21, 2013

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University engineers have developed a novel method for producing clean hydrogen, which could prove essential to weaning society off of fossil fuels and their environmental implications. While hydrogen is ubiquitous in the...

Triangle Universities Establish State-of-the-Art Characterization Facility

May 20, 2013

Scientists across North Carolina will now be able to probe the mysteries of very tiny particles, polymers, and surfaces for applications ranging from biomedicine to polymer science. Thanks to an $850,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (...

For Tropical Rainfall, Timing Is Everything

May 20, 2013

DURHAM, N.C. -- With changes in the global climate, certain regions of the tropics will likely experience growing unpredictability of their seasonal cycles of rain and drought, according to a new analysis by Duke and Princeton University engineers.

Duke Engineers Build Living Patch for Damaged Hearts

May 6, 2013

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University biomedical engineers have grown three-dimensional human heart muscle that acts just like natural tissue. This advancement could be important in treating heart attack patients or in serving as a platform for testing...

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