PRATT faculty News

  • December 19, 2008

    Curtarolo Wins Presidential Award From Department Of Defense

    DURHAM, N.C. In recognition of his discovery and characterization of novel combinations of elements, Duke engineer and physicist Stefano Curtarolo, Ph.D., has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award, the highest honor given to scientists by the federal government, also carries $1 million in research support over five years. Many federal agencies participate in the PECASE program Curtarolo was recommended by the Department of Defense's Office ...
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  • December 15, 2008

    Tiny Lasers, Big Advances

    While an undergraduate in the early 1980s at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., Nan Jokerst thought lasers were so cool she should build one herself. Using plans from a Scientific American article, she did just that in the basement of the physics building. "It worked, amazingly enough," she says with a laugh, "though I nearly electrocuted myself, which wouldn't have been good for an electrical engineer." This, her first foray into the world of laser optics ...
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  • October 14, 2008

    Matt Reynolds - Bridging the gaps between the physical and digital worlds

    Who is Matt Reynolds? Academically, Matt Reynolds was born and raised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's famed Media Lab, but the roots of his engineering interests go back much further. By the age of 10, he was already building and studying electronic circuits using an oscilloscope--a gift from his father who encouraged him to learn about math and science. "That early interest in science and engineering has stayed with me for a long time now," ...
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  • June 26, 2008

    Laursen Named Chair of Mechanical Engineering Department

    Professor Tod Laursen has been named chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Dean Robert Clark and Dean designee Tom Katsouleas announced on June 26. He succeeds professor Franklin H. Cocks, who served as interim chair during the 2007/2008 academic year. "Tod is well known and respected for his scholarship, leadership, judgment and academic values. He has ambitious goals for MEMS and we expect him to be a transformative Chair," said Katsouleas. Laursen received ...
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  • April 7, 2008

    Meet the New Faculty: Matt Reynolds

    Making home technology to meet needs By Marla Vacek Broadfoot Durham, NC -- Talk to Matt Reynolds about his work and chances are he'll quote his favorite piece of trivia exemplifying the value of technology in our lives. Here it is: By the year 2005, more transistors -- tiny electrical gadgets found in everything from toasters to computers - had been created by human hands than grains of rice had been farmed. "Clearly, we already live among ...
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  • March 6, 2008

    Katsouleas Named Dean at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering

    DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University has selected Thomas Katsouleas, professor of electrical engineering and electrophysics at the University of Southern California and the school's former vice provost for information services, as the new dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke Provost Peter Lange announced Thursday. He begins his new position on July 1. Katsouleas, 49, succeeds Kristina Johnson, who became provost and vice president of academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 1, ...
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  • September 7, 2007

    Duke names John Board associate chief information officer

    John Board, associate professor and associate chair of electrical and computer engineering at Duke, has been appointed associate chief information officer, Duke Chief Information Officer Tracy Futhey announced today. Board will provide strategic leadership for the university's information technology environment through the collective resources of the schools, departments and Duke's information technology units. He will divide his duties between the Pratt School of Engineering and the CIO's office. "One of John's primary responsibilities will be to champion ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    David J. Brady Elected SPIE Fellow

    David J. Brady David J. Brady, the Addy Family Professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Brady is one of 56 new Fellows chosen worldwide this year. SPIE Fellows are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, ...
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  • June 1, 2007

    David J. Brady Elected SPIE Fellow

    David J. Brady David J. Brady, the Addy Family Professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Brady is one of 56 new Fellows chosen worldwide this year. SPIE Fellows are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, ...
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  • May 1, 2007

    A Career on Wings: Earl Dowell's Long Fascination with Flight

    Earl Dowell For Earl Dowell, aerodynamics and structural dynamics expert and dean emeritus of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, a fascination with flight began years before he ever got close to an airplane. "When I was a small boy in Illinois, I remember seeing airplanes overhead and thinking: 'It would be fun to be there,'" recalled Dowell, who is William Holland Hall professor of mechanical engineering and materials science (MEMS). In those days, "growing up, no one I ...
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  • May 1, 2007

    A Career on Wings: Earl Dowell's Long Fascination with Flight

    Earl Dowell For Earl Dowell, aerodynamics and structural dynamics expert and dean emeritus of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, a fascination with flight began years before he ever got close to an airplane. "When I was a small boy in Illinois, I remember seeing airplanes overhead and thinking: 'It would be fun to be there,'" recalled Dowell, who is William Holland Hall professor of mechanical engineering and materials science (MEMS). In those days, "growing up, no one I ...
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  • April 17, 2007

    Rebecca Willett, NSF CAREER Award Winner, Develops Tools to Tackle Images, Traffic and More

    Rebecca Willett of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering is creating tools that could be used to make sense of a diverse set of scenarios -- from the blackout that left New York City in the dark in 2003 to the bottlenecks and vulnerabilities that can plague transportation systems to the activities of genes and proteins within individual cells. In support of her efforts, Willett has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from ...
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  • November 7, 2006

    Dean Kristina Johnson Appointed to Board of Directors of Nortel

    PRNewswire TORONTO -- Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Nortel, effective immediately. "I am pleased to announce Dean Johnson's appointment," said Harry Pearce, chairman of Nortel's Board of Directors. "Her insight and experience will greatly benefit Nortel and contribute to our focus on innovation and R&D effectiveness." Johnson has also been appointed to the Nortel Networks Limited Board of Directors. Johnson joined Duke in 1999 ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    Huettel Wins Prestigious IEEE Early Career Teaching Award

    Lisa Huettel Lisa Huettel, assistant pofessor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, received the 2006 Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society. The award was presented at the Frontiers in Education conference in San Diego, Calif., on Oct. 29. The award includes a $1,000 stipend, a commemorative plaque, and paid registration to the international ...
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  • November 1, 2006

    Huettel Wins Prestigious IEEE Early Career Teaching Award

    Lisa Huettel Lisa Huettel, assistant pofessor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, received the 2006 Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society. The award was presented at the Frontiers in Education conference in San Diego, Calif., on Oct. 29. The award includes a $1,000 stipend, a commemorative plaque, and paid registration to the international ...
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  • October 30, 2006

    Duke Packard Fellow to Examine Processing Speed of "Reprogrammed" Bacteria

    Lingchong You, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has won a fellowship from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for his research into the information processing speed of bacteria that have been "reprogrammed" to perform new, and potentially useful, tasks. The Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering aims to provide support for "unusually creative researchers" within their first three years as faculty, according to the foundation's web site. You--one of ...
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  • October 26, 2006

    Mark Wiesner: Making Nanotechnology Safe - Engineer studies the consequences of going small

    By Rachel Adelson Durham, NC -- Mark Wiesner wants to save the planet, one molecule at a time. A nanotechnology expert who joined Duke this semester as a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, Wiesner is committed to managing the environmental risks of a growing industrial revolution before any damage is done. Wiesner was among the first people to call attention to the way that production and use of new nanomaterials ...
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  • September 25, 2006

    Six Pratt Faculty To Be Honored At Founder's Day Convocation

    Duke University will honor outstanding students, faculty, employees and alumni at its annual Founders' Day Convocation in Duke Chapel at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28. Among the winners are six members of the Pratt School of Engineering faculty. Honorees at the service, which is open to the public, include philanthropists Russell Robinson II and his wife, Sally Dalton Robinson; Ruby Leila Wilson, dean emerita of Duke School of Nursing; and longtime university photographer William "Jimmy" Wallace ...
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  • September 1, 2006

    Faculty Honors

    Engineer, Two Other Duke University Faculty Members Win White House Award Assistant professor of mechanical engineering Silvia Ferrari and two other Duke University faculty members have won Presidential Early Career Awards, the highest honor that the U.S. government bestows on young scientists and engineers. Read more here. Bejan Receives Luikov Medal for International Impact on Thermal Sciences Adrian Bejan, J. A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has received the Luikov Medal ...
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  • September 1, 2006

    Faculty Honors

    Engineer, Two Other Duke University Faculty Members Win White House Award Assistant professor of mechanical engineering Silvia Ferrari and two other Duke University faculty members have won Presidential Early Career Awards, the highest honor that the U.S. government bestows on young scientists and engineers. Read more here. Bejan Receives Luikov Medal for International Impact on Thermal Sciences Adrian Bejan, J. A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has received the Luikov Medal ...
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  • August 17, 2006

    Bejan Receives Luikov Medal for International Impact on Thermal Sciences

    Adrian Bejan, J. A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has received the Luikov Medal for his contributions to the field of thermal sciences, including his development of the constructal law of design in nature. The awards ceremony was held at the International Heat Transfer Conference in Sydney on Aug. 14. "I'm truly honored to have received this award, one of the rarest in the thermal sciences worldwide," Bejan said. ...
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  • July 27, 2006

    Engineer, Two Other Duke University Faculty Members Win White House Award

    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An engineer and two other Duke University faculty members have won the highest honor that the U.S. government bestows on young scientists and engineers. Silvia Ferrari, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering; Jonathan Mattingly, an associate professor of mathematics; and Tannishtha Reya, an assistant professor of pharmacology and cancer biology in the medical school, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at a ceremony Wednesday, ...
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  • July 19, 2006

    'Big Dig' Tunnel Failure Offers Clues for Design Success

    Last week's tunnel ceiling collapse in Boston that killed a motorist has taught us more about the "Big Dig" ceiling system than all the years of apparently successful operation, says a Duke University civil engineer and author of "Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design." "For years the ceiling design appeared to be successful, in that cars and trucks drove through the tunnels without incident," said Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil and Environmental ...
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  • July 6, 2006

    Nanomaterials Scientist Mark Wiesner Joins Duke Civil and Environmental Faculty

    Durham, N.C. Mark R. Wiesner, former director of the Environmental and Energy Systems Institute at Rice University, has joined Duke's faculty as a professor of civil and environmental engineering. Wiesner's research focuses on membrane processes, nanostructured materials, transport and fate of nanomaterials in the environment, colloidal and interfacial processes, environmental systems analysis and energy technologies. He joined Duke's Pratt School of Engineering on July 1. "I'm interested in the environmental implications of the manufacturing, use ...
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  • June 29, 2006

    Phillip Jones, Duke Engineering Professor, Dies at Age 56

    Phillip L. Jones, Duke University associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, died Saturday, June 24, at Duke Hospital in Durham after a brief battle with cancer. He was 56. "Phil had a natural talent and passion for teaching. His students and colleagues loved him and he loved them," said Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering. Jones earned a bachelor of science from the Materials Department of Engineering and Applied Science at the ...
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  • June 1, 2006

    Award for Study of Ultrathin Silicon Dielectrics

    Hisham Massoud Professor Hisham Massoud of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has been awarded the 2006 Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) for his work on ultrathin silicon dielectric films. Such ultrathin films are a basic component in silicon microelectronics, and increasingly thinner films improve the performance of future generations of microchips. Massoud received the award at the 209th annual ECS meeting held on May 7-12 in Denver where he was also elected ...
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  • June 1, 2006

    Award for Study of Ultrathin Silicon Dielectrics

    Hisham Massoud Professor Hisham Massoud of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has been awarded the 2006 Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) for his work on ultrathin silicon dielectric films. Such ultrathin films are a basic component in silicon microelectronics, and increasingly thinner films improve the performance of future generations of microchips. Massoud received the award at the 209th annual ECS meeting held on May 7-12 in Denver where he was also elected ...
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  • May 24, 2006

    Duke's Hisham Massoud Elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society

    DURHAM, N.C. Duke University electrical and computer engineering Professor Hisham Massoud has been elected a fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in recognition for his contributions to the understanding of silicon oxidation kinetics, ultrathin gate dielectrics, and the Si-SiO2 interface. Massoud's pioneering contributions in the field of silicon oxidation in the ultrathin-oxide regime are universally implemented in process modeling software tools used world wide to design ultrathin gate-insulator processes in IC technology. In ...
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  • May 11, 2006

    Duke's Robert Clark to Speak on Challenges and Benefits of Interdisciplinary Research Teaming - Keynote at International Symposium for Biologically-inspired Design and Engineering

    ATLANTA Duke mechanical engineer Robert Clark will present a keynote talk on the challenges and benefits of establishing a vibrant interdisciplinary research program on Friday, May 12, at the International Symposium for Biologically-inspired Design and Engineering at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Clark, senior associate dean at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke, is the director of Duke's Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems (CBIMMS) (http://cbimms.duke.edu). CBIMMS, established in 2001, encompasses a ...
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  • May 8, 2006

    Hisham Massoud Wins Award for Study of Ultrathin Silicon Dielectrics

    Professor Hisham Massoud of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has been awarded the 2006 Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) for his work on ultrathin silicon dielectric films. Such ultrathin films are a basic component in silicon microelectronics, and increasingly thinner films improve the performance of future generations of microchips. Massoud received the award at the 209th annual ECS meeting held on May 7-12 in Denver. "As the size of the transistors shrinks ...
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  • May 1, 2006

    Distinguished Alums and Faculty Honored at Awards Ceremony

    Three distinguished alumni and six faculty members were honored for their career accomplishments, service to Pratt and excellence in teaching, mentoring and research at the 2006 annual Engineering Alumni Council Banquet held at the Searle Center on April 28. William A. Hawkins III E'76, was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award. James G. Whayne E'90, was awarded the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. And Pratt Senior Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Affairss Judge Carr was awarded the ...
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  • May 1, 2006

    Distinguished Alums and Faculty Honored at Awards Ceremony

    Three distinguished alumni and six faculty members were honored for their career accomplishments, service to Pratt and excellence in teaching, mentoring and research at the 2006 annual Engineering Alumni Council Banquet held at the Searle Center on April 28. William A. Hawkins III E'76, was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award. James G. Whayne E'90, was awarded the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. And Pratt Senior Associate Dean of Development and Alumni Affairss Judge Carr was awarded the ...
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  • May 1, 2006

    Duke Engineer Wins Beckman Young Investigator Award

    Jingdong Tian Biomedical engineer Jingdong Tian of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has been named a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Tian will receive $264,000 over three years to pursue research titled "High-Throughput Forward Engineering of Novel Biological Systems Using Microfluidic DNA Microchip." Tian aims to develop new strategies and enabling technologies for efficient engineering, fabrication, and optimization of novel, genetically encoded bionanosystems. Such technology has the potential to aid in gene ...
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  • May 1, 2006

    Duke Engineer Wins Beckman Young Investigator Award

    Jingdong Tian Biomedical engineer Jingdong Tian of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has been named a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Tian will receive $264,000 over three years to pursue research titled "High-Throughput Forward Engineering of Novel Biological Systems Using Microfluidic DNA Microchip." Tian aims to develop new strategies and enabling technologies for efficient engineering, fabrication, and optimization of novel, genetically encoded bionanosystems. Such technology has the potential to aid in gene ...
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  • May 1, 2006

    Strong Showing for Pratt at American Chemical Society Meeting

    Stefan Zauscher Representatives of the Pratt School of Engineering made an impressive showing at the 2006 American Chemical Society (ACS) meetings held in Atlanta from March 26-30. Topics presented by the Pratt group ranged from plasmonic nanoparticles to the effect of glycoproteins on joint friction. The majority of those in attendance from the Pratt School participated in a symposium centered on the emerging and interdisciplinary field of "bionanostructures and interfaces," organized by Pratt professor Stefan Zauscher and ...
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  • May 1, 2006

    Strong Showing for Pratt at American Chemical Society Meeting

    Stefan Zauscher Representatives of the Pratt School of Engineering made an impressive showing at the 2006 American Chemical Society (ACS) meetings held in Atlanta from March 26-30. Topics presented by the Pratt group ranged from plasmonic nanoparticles to the effect of glycoproteins on joint friction. The majority of those in attendance from the Pratt School participated in a symposium centered on the emerging and interdisciplinary field of "bionanostructures and interfaces," organized by Pratt professor Stefan Zauscher and ...
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  • April 29, 2006

    Petroski Elected to American Philosophical Society

    Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, was elected April 29 to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. The society was founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for the purpose of "promoting useful knowledge." It supports research, discovery and education through grants and fellowships, lectures, publications, prizes and exhibitions. Early members included George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and John ...
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  • April 14, 2006

    Duke Engineer Wins Beckman Young Investigator Award

    Biomedical engineer Jingdong Tian of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has been named a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Tian will receive $264,000 over three years to pursue research titled "High-Throughput Forward Engineering of Novel Biological Systems Using Microfluidic DNA Microchip." Tian aims to develop new strategies and enabling technologies for efficient engineering, fabrication, and optimization of novel, genetically encoded bionanosystems. Such technology has the potential to aid in gene medicine ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Myers Named Senior Associate Dean for Industrial Partnerships and Research Commercialization

    Barry Myers, Ph.D., M.D., M.B.A. Professor Barry Myers has been appointed senior associate dean for industrial partnerships and research commercialization at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. Myers will lead the school's efforts to increase industry involvement in engineering education, research, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. A member of the Duke faculty since 1991, Myers earned his M.D.-Ph.D. from Duke in 1991 and an M.B.A. from Duke in 2005. He is the Anderson-Rupp Professor in the Department of Biomedical ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Myers Named Senior Associate Dean for Industrial Partnerships and Research Commercialization

    Barry Myers, Ph.D., M.D., M.B.A. Professor Barry Myers has been appointed senior associate dean for industrial partnerships and research commercialization at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. Myers will lead the school's efforts to increase industry involvement in engineering education, research, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. A member of the Duke faculty since 1991, Myers earned his M.D.-Ph.D. from Duke in 1991 and an M.B.A. from Duke in 2005. He is the Anderson-Rupp Professor in the Department of Biomedical ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Tuan Vo-Dinh To Lead Duke's Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics

    Tuan Vo-Dinh Tuan Vo-Dinh, a pioneer in the field of photonics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has joined the department of biomedical engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, where he will serve as director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics. Vo-Dinh said he plans to establish Duke as a national "center of gravity" for photonics research by tapping into the breadth of faculty expertise and facilities of the Pratt School of Engineering, as well as ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Tuan Vo-Dinh To Lead Duke's Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics

    Tuan Vo-Dinh Tuan Vo-Dinh, a pioneer in the field of photonics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has joined the department of biomedical engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, where he will serve as director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics. Vo-Dinh said he plans to establish Duke as a national "center of gravity" for photonics research by tapping into the breadth of faculty expertise and facilities of the Pratt School of Engineering, as well as ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Three Duke Engineers Win NSF Early Career Awards

    Jungsang Kim, Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Sule Ozev Three researchers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have won Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation, its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. The awards went to assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Jungsang Kim and Sule Ozev. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become academic leaders, according ...
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  • April 1, 2006

    Three Duke Engineers Win NSF Early Career Awards

    Jungsang Kim, Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Sule Ozev Three researchers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have won Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation, its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. The awards went to assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Jungsang Kim and Sule Ozev. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become academic leaders, according ...
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  • March 28, 2006

    New Pratt Senior Associate Dean for Industrial Partnerships and Research Commercialization Appointed

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Professor Barry Myers has been appointed senior associate dean for industrial partnerships and research commercialization at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. Myers will lead the school's efforts to increase industry involvement in engineering education, research, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. A member of the Duke faculty since 1991, Myers earned an M.D.-Ph.D. from Duke in 1991 and an M.B.A. from Duke in 2005. He is the Anderson-Rupp Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, ...
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  • March 28, 2006

    New Pratt Senior Associate Dean for Industrial Partnerships and Research Commercialization Appointed

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Professor Barry Myers has been appointed senior associate dean for industrial partnerships and research commercialization at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. Myers will lead the school's efforts to increase industry involvement in engineering education, research, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. A member of the Duke faculty since 1991, Myers earned an M.D.-Ph.D. from Duke in 1991 and an M.B.A. from Duke in 2005. He is the Anderson-Rupp Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, ...
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  • March 17, 2006

    Three Duke Engineers Win NSF Early Career Awards

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Three researchers at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering have won Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation, its most prestigious honor for junior faculty members. The awards went to assistant professors of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Jungsang Kim and Sule Ozev. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become academic leaders, according to ...
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  • March 17, 2006

    Tuan Vo-Dinh to Lead Duke's Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Tuan Vo-Dinh, a pioneer in the field of photonics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has joined the biomedical engineering department at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, where he will serve as director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics. Vo-Dinh said he plans to establish Duke as a national "center of gravity" for photonics research by tapping into the breadth of faculty expertise and facilities at the Pratt School, as well as Duke's ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Leong to Lead Initiative Aimed at Nanomedicine

    Kam Leong Kam Leong, a national leader in drug and gene delivery at Johns Hopkins University, has joined the department of biomedical engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, where he will serve as director of the school's Bioengineering Initiative. Leong said he plans to focus on the emerging field of "nanotherapeutics," the application of devices on the scale of nanometers - one billionth of a meter -- for treating disease via drug, gene and ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Leong to Lead Initiative Aimed at Nanomedicine

    Kam Leong Kam Leong, a national leader in drug and gene delivery at Johns Hopkins University, has joined the department of biomedical engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, where he will serve as director of the school's Bioengineering Initiative. Leong said he plans to focus on the emerging field of "nanotherapeutics," the application of devices on the scale of nanometers - one billionth of a meter -- for treating disease via drug, gene and ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Petroski Honored for Making Engineering Understandable

    Henry Petroski Professor and prolific author Henry Petroski of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has won the 2006 Washington Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering awards in the country, for his accomplishments in making engineering theory and practice understandable to the general public. Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic professor of civil and environmental engineering and a professor of history at Duke. He was presented with the award at a banquet in Chicago on ...
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  • March 1, 2006

    Petroski Honored for Making Engineering Understandable

    Henry Petroski Professor and prolific author Henry Petroski of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has won the 2006 Washington Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering awards in the country, for his accomplishments in making engineering theory and practice understandable to the general public. Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic professor of civil and environmental engineering and a professor of history at Duke. He was presented with the award at a banquet in Chicago on ...
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  • February 24, 2006

    Petroski Honored for Making Engineering Understandable to Public

    Professor and prolific author Henry Petroski of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has won the 2006 Washington Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering awards in the country, for his accomplishments in making engineering theory and practice understandable to the general public. Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a professor of history at Duke. He will be presented with the award at a banquet in Chicago on ...
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  • January 24, 2006

    Duke's Ramanujam Wins MIT's Global Indus Technovators Award

    Associate professor Nimmi Ramanujam of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering is a recipient of the 2005 Global Indus Technovators Award for her work developing minimally invasive, light-based technologies for early cancer detection. An awards reception was held on Jan. 24, 2006, in Boston. The honor is bestowed on top scientists and engineers by the Indian Business Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to inspire a culture of innovation among young people of South Asian ...
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  • December 3, 2005

    Smith Shares Descartes Award for Artificial Material that Reverses Light's Properties

    Associate Professor David R. Smith of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering and a team of European researchers have won a Descartes Research Prize for their work in developing left-handed metamaterials, artificial composites that reverse the usual properties of light. The awards ceremony was held at the Royal Society in London on December 1-2, 2005. Selected from a pool of 85 research teams from 22 countries, Smith shares this year's top European Union prize for research with ...
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  • October 13, 2005

    Duke's Brad Fox Elected to IEEE Engineering Management Society's Board of Governors

    Brad Fox, executive director of the Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has been elected to the IEEE Engineering Management Society's Board of Governors. Fox will serve a three-year term, beginning Jan. 1. "Brad Fox's appointment to the EMS Board of Governors is an opportunity to advance engineering management and is recognition of his credentials the stature and quality of Duke's Master of Engineering Management program," said Jeff Glass, Hogg ...
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  • October 12, 2005

    Gustafson Appointed Assistant Professor of the Practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed Michael Gustafson an assistant professor of the practice. "We are very pleased to announce the newest addition to our faculty, Dr. Mike Gustafson," said department Chair April Brown. "Gus has been a leader at Duke in teaching and course development and will work closely with us in ECE on the new curriculum development and on further developing educational experiences in robotics." Gustafson ...
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  • October 1, 2005

    Entrepreneur Kimberly Jenkins Named Executive-In-Residence at Duke Engineering Management Program

    Note to editors: A photo of Kimberly Jenkins is available at: http://photo1.dukenews.duke.edu/pages/Duke_News_Service/Jenkins.jpg. DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed information technology entrepreneur Kimberly J. Jenkins as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program. Jenkins is now serving, on a volunteer basis, as a mentor to students in the MEM program and faculty at Duke interested in technology commercialization. She also plans to explore ways to increase the number of women ...
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  • October 1, 2005

    Entrepreneur Kimberly Jenkins Named Executive-In-Residence at Duke Engineering Management Program

    Note to editors: A photo of Kimberly Jenkins is available at: http://photo1.dukenews.duke.edu/pages/Duke_News_Service/Jenkins.jpg. DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed information technology entrepreneur Kimberly J. Jenkins as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management (MEM) program. Jenkins is now serving, on a volunteer basis, as a mentor to students in the MEM program and faculty at Duke interested in technology commercialization. She also plans to explore ways to increase the number of women ...
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  • September 29, 2005

    Duke's Kristina Johnson to Speak at CED's InfoTech 2005

    September 28, 2005, Research Triangle Park, NC The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced that Kristina Johnson, Ph.D., Dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will deliver featured comments at CED's InfoTech 2005 conference. Scheduled for October 12 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center in the RTP. CED's 15th annual InfoTech conference will highlight North Carolina's IT industry and explore the latest ...
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  • September 29, 2005

    Duke's Kristina Johnson to Speak at CED's InfoTech 2005

    September 28, 2005, Research Triangle Park, NC The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced that Kristina Johnson, Ph.D., Dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will deliver featured comments at CED's InfoTech 2005 conference. Scheduled for October 12 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center in the RTP. CED's 15th annual InfoTech conference will highlight North Carolina's IT industry and explore the latest ...
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  • September 10, 2005

    Faculty Explore the Complexities of Katrina's Devastation

    Durham, N.C. -- Duke environmental experts and civil engineers have responded to Hurricane Katrina devastation with a broad range of insights. They are criticizing the failure to heed computer models that warned of disaster; pondering how to rebuild the city to avoid future catastrophe and examining the potential for ecological damage in the storm's aftermath. Pratt School of Engineering urban hydrologist Miguel Medina Jr. criticized the failure to heed the long history of engineering predictions and ...
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  • September 1, 2005

    Marion Shepard Passes Away

    Marion Shepard Marion L. Shepard, professor and associate dean emeritus at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, died of cancer July 22 at Beaufort County Hospital in Washington, N.C. He was 67. Shepard joined the Duke faculty in 1967 as an assistant professor of materials science in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science in the School of Engineering. In 1977 he was appointed associate dean for undergraduate programs and served in that capacity until his retirement ...
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  • September 1, 2005

    Marion Shepard Passes Away

    Marion Shepard Marion L. Shepard, professor and associate dean emeritus at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, died of cancer July 22 at Beaufort County Hospital in Washington, N.C. He was 67. Shepard joined the Duke faculty in 1967 as an assistant professor of materials science in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science in the School of Engineering. In 1977 he was appointed associate dean for undergraduate programs and served in that capacity until his retirement ...
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  • September 1, 2005

    Wadhwa Named Executive in Residence

    Vivek Wadhwa The Pratt School of Engineering has appointed technology entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management program. Wadhwa will serve as a mentor to students in the program and assist faculty interested in commercializing technology developed at Duke. Wadhwa is the founder and ex-CEO of Relativity Technologies in Raleigh, N.C. He co-founded Seer Technologies in Cary, N.C., in 1990. From 1986 to 1990, he was vice president of information services at Credit ...
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  • September 1, 2005

    Wadhwa Named Executive in Residence

    Vivek Wadhwa The Pratt School of Engineering has appointed technology entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management program. Wadhwa will serve as a mentor to students in the program and assist faculty interested in commercializing technology developed at Duke. Wadhwa is the founder and ex-CEO of Relativity Technologies in Raleigh, N.C. He co-founded Seer Technologies in Cary, N.C., in 1990. From 1986 to 1990, he was vice president of information services at Credit ...
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  • August 26, 2005

    Vivek Wadhwa Named Executive-in-Residence at Duke Engineering Management Program

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed technology entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management program. Wadhwa will serve as a mentor to students in the program and assist faculty interested in commercializing technology developed at Duke. Wadhwa is the founder and ex-CEO of Relativity Technologies in Raleigh, N.C. He co-founded Seer Technologies in Cary, N.C., in 1990. From 1986 to 1990, he was vice president of information ...
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  • August 26, 2005

    Vivek Wadhwa Named Executive-in-Residence at Duke Engineering Management Program

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has appointed technology entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa as executive-in-residence in the Master of Engineering Management program. Wadhwa will serve as a mentor to students in the program and assist faculty interested in commercializing technology developed at Duke. Wadhwa is the founder and ex-CEO of Relativity Technologies in Raleigh, N.C. He co-founded Seer Technologies in Cary, N.C., in 1990. From 1986 to 1990, he was vice president of information ...
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  • June 17, 2005

    Sorin wins NSF CAREER award

    Assistant Professor Daniel J. Sorin of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has won a National Science Foundation CAREER award of $400,000 over the next 5 years to develop new approaches to reliable computer architecture design. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is the federal agency's most prestigious award for early career teacher-scholars and supports integration of research and education. Sorin's project is called: "CAREER: Improving Multiprocessor Availability with Dynamic Verification and Autonomic Operation". Sorin and his team ...
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  • April 24, 2005

    Engineering Alumni and Faculty Members Honored

    Duke's Engineering Alumni Association April 23 honored 1974 graduate Capers McDonald of Potomac, Md., with its Distinguished Alumnus Award and 1990 graduate Edward L. Trimble of Atlanta with the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award. Professor F. Hadley Cocks of the Pratt School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS), received the Distinguished Service Award for 33 years of service to the School of Engineering, joining the school in 1972 as assistant professor after six ...
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  • April 1, 2005

    Reichert Receives Mentoring Award

    William Reichert The Duke University Graduate School is giving its Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring to Professor of Biomedical Engineering William Reichert; Linda K. George, professor of sociology and psychology; and Alexander Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and professor of biology. "This year's award recipients have diligently applied themselves in various ways to ensuring that the experience of dedicated scholars remains accessible to the full spectrum of eager and curious minds that enter Duke's ...
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  • April 1, 2005

    Reichert Receives Mentoring Award

    William Reichert The Duke University Graduate School is giving its Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring to Professor of Biomedical Engineering William Reichert; Linda K. George, professor of sociology and psychology; and Alexander Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and professor of biology. "This year's award recipients have diligently applied themselves in various ways to ensuring that the experience of dedicated scholars remains accessible to the full spectrum of eager and curious minds that enter Duke's ...
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  • March 26, 2005

    Reichert is Among Three Professors to Receive Graduate School Mentoring Award

    The Duke University Graduate School is giving its Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring to Professor of Biomedical Engineering William Reichert; Linda K. George, professor of sociology and psychology; and Alexander Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and professor of biology. "This year's award recipients have diligently applied themselves in various ways to ensuring that the experience of dedicated scholars remains accessible to the full spectrum of eager and curious minds that enter Duke's graduate ...
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  • March 24, 2005

    Biomedical Engineering Professor Emeritus Fredrick L. Thurstone Dies

    Duke University engineering professor emeritus Fredrick L."Fritz" Thurstone, a pioneer of diagnostic ultrasound, died of cancer March 17 in Kissimmee, Fla. He was 73. Thurstone moved to Duke in 1967 as one of the founding members of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is credited with playing a key role in Duke engineering's development and commercialization of ultrasound in medicine. "Professor Thurstone was a leader in the field of ultrasound holography and a pioneer of the use ...
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  • February 28, 2005

    Reichert Honored for Role in Minority Recruiting in Biomedical Engineering

    Ten years ago there were no black doctoral students in engineering at Duke and few in the other math and science departments at the university. Biomedical Engineering Professor William "Monty" Reichert decided to see what he could do about that. With funding from the engineering school and the Graduate School at Duke, Reichert took a sabbatical leave in 1996 at North Carolina Central University, a historically black university in Durham. He immersed himself in minority education ...
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  • January 21, 2005

    Dean: Women-in-Science Flap Misses Important Point

    The controversy sparked by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers' recently reported remarks about why more women may not become engineers and scientists "is missing an important point," says the dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. "The nation desperately needs more women and minorities in technical fields, and we should be concentrating on what we can do to encourage them to become engineers and scientists," said Kristina M. Johnson, the first woman to head ...
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  • January 1, 2005

    Henry Petroski's Latest Book: Pushing the Limits, New Adventures in Engineering

    Engineers pushed the limits of technology in the past century to accomplish things that were not even dreamed of in the 19th century. "And so it will be in the 21st century, with the contents of any list of engineering achievements that will be compiled in the late 2090s being virtually unpredictable today," says Duke University civil engineering professor Henry Petroski in his latest book, Pushing the Limits, New Adventures in Engineering (Alfred A. Knopf). Petroski says ...
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  • January 1, 2005

    Henry Petroski's Latest Book: Pushing the Limits, New Adventures in Engineering

    Engineers pushed the limits of technology in the past century to accomplish things that were not even dreamed of in the 19th century. "And so it will be in the 21st century, with the contents of any list of engineering achievements that will be compiled in the late 2090s being virtually unpredictable today," says Duke University civil engineering professor Henry Petroski in his latest book, Pushing the Limits, New Adventures in Engineering (Alfred A. Knopf). Petroski says ...
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  • December 18, 2004

    In Big Structures, the Title of 'Greatest' Doesn't Last Long

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Engineers pushed the limits of technology in the past century to accomplish things that were not even dreamed of in the 19th century. "And so it will be in the 21st century, with the contents of any list of engineering achievements that will be compiled in the late 2090s being virtually unpredictable today," says Duke University civil engineering professor Henry Petroski in his latest book, Pushing the Limits, New Adventures in Engineering (Alfred ...
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  • December 1, 2004

    Pratt Civil Engineers Respond to Hurricane Katrina

    Duke civil engineers responded to Hurricane Katrina devastation with a broad range of insights. They criticized the failure to heed computer models that warned of disaster; pondered how to rebuild the city to avoid future catastrophe; and examined the potential for ecological damage in the storm's aftermath. Pratt School of Engineering urban hydrologist Miguel Medina Jr. criticized the failure to heed the long history of engineering predictions and computer modeling that foretold what would happen in ...
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  • December 1, 2004

    Pratt Civil Engineers Respond to Hurricane Katrina

    Duke civil engineers responded to Hurricane Katrina devastation with a broad range of insights. They criticized the failure to heed computer models that warned of disaster; pondered how to rebuild the city to avoid future catastrophe; and examined the potential for ecological damage in the storm's aftermath. Pratt School of Engineering urban hydrologist Miguel Medina Jr. criticized the failure to heed the long history of engineering predictions and computer modeling that foretold what would happen in ...
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  • October 12, 2004

    Kristina M. Johnson Receives Society of Women Engineers' Highest Honor

    MILWAUKEE, Wis., October 13, 2004 The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) announced today that Dr. Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering is the recipient of the 2004 SWE Achievement Award, the highest award given by the Society for her outstanding contributions to the field of engineering for more than 20 years. Dr. Johnson receives the Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to optoelectronic processing systems ...
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  • August 26, 2004

    ECE Department hires three new faculty

    As the fall semester begins, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering welcomes three new faculty members. "We are very excited about the new faculty additions," said April S. Brown, ECE Chair. "The department is continuing its growth with emphasis on the Pratt School's strategic initiatives. Each of the new faculty members has expertise in areas that spans more than one of these areas, including materials and nanoscience, photonics, and sensing. We now have 28 faculty ...
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  • August 26, 2004

    Three new faculty join Pratt's BME Department

    At the start of the fall semester, Pratt's Department of Biomedical Engineering welcomes three new tenure track faculty members. Jean-Marc Fellous, previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute, became an assistant professor in the BME department and a core member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in September 2004. Fellous earned his Ph.D. in computer science and artificial intelligence at University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He research involves a combination of in vitro, in ...
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  • August 10, 2004

    Duke Engineer Picked for National Academy of Engineering Symposia

    The National Academy of Engineering has announced that Duke engineering professor Robert Clark is among 86 of the "nation's brightest young engineers," who have been selected to participate in the NAE's tenth annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Clark was also selected to participate in the Fourth Japan-America Frontiers Symposium. Clark is the Thomas Lord Professor and senior associate dean of research at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Clark will take part in the Tenth Annual ...
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  • July 30, 2004

    Duke Engineering Professor Named to Federal Scientific Review Panel

    DURHAM, N.C. - Duke University's Gregg E. Trahey has been appointed a member of the Biomedical Imaging Technology Study Section of the National Institute of Health's Center for Scientific Review. Trahey, Ph.D., is the James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering, and also holds an appointment as professor of radiology at Duke University Medical Center. He is a specialist in medical ultrasound and instrumentation, adaptive imaging, ...
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  • July 1, 2004

    Duke Professor Wins Navy Young Investigator Award

    DURHAM, N.C. - Silvia Ferrari, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and material systems at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has been named an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator. She is one of 26 young faculty members across the nation to receive the award. Ferrari, who directs the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls at Pratt, will receive $274,000 for three years to conduct research on sensor networks for surveillance systems tracking multiple ...
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  • June 18, 2004

    Jungsang Kim Joins ECE Department

    Jungsang Kim has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University as the John-Kelly C. Warren Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Kim, who received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 1999, comes to Duke from Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he has worked for five years. An expert in photonics and MEMS, he joins the Fitzpatrick Center and the department "Jungsang has great breadth in research -- ...
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  • May 1, 2004

    Professor Lisa Huettel Wins Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award

    Lisa G. Huettel, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, has won the first Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Huettel, who received a plaque and $2,000 at the Engineering Alumni Banquet April 24, was nominated by Pratt undergraduates and selected by a faculty committee. "You should take great pride in the fact that in a school with many outstanding teachers, your contributions to our educational programs ...
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  • May 1, 2004

    Professor Lisa Huettel Wins Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award

    Lisa G. Huettel, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, has won the first Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Huettel, who received a plaque and $2,000 at the Engineering Alumni Banquet April 24, was nominated by Pratt undergraduates and selected by a faculty committee. "You should take great pride in the fact that in a school with many outstanding teachers, your contributions to our educational programs ...
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  • May 1, 2004

    Professor Karl Linden Wins Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award

    Karl Linden, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has received the new Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award for his work on using ultraviolet light to disinfect drinking water and destroy chemical pollutants. Linden, who joined the Pratt faculty in 1999, was selected by a committee of senior associate deans headed by Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson. The award, consisting of a plaque and $2,000, was presented at the ...
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  • May 1, 2004

    Professor Karl Linden Wins Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award

    Karl Linden, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has received the new Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award for his work on using ultraviolet light to disinfect drinking water and destroy chemical pollutants. Linden, who joined the Pratt faculty in 1999, was selected by a committee of senior associate deans headed by Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson. The award, consisting of a plaque and $2,000, was presented at the ...
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  • April 29, 2004

    Niklason Named to NIH Panel

    Duke University's Laura E. Niklason has been appointed a member of the Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences Study Section of the National Institute of Health's Center for Scientific Review. Niklason, who has M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, is an assistant professor with joint appointments in biomedical engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering and anesthesiology and surgery at Duke Medical Center. She is a specialist on tissue engineering, a rapidly developing field that integrates areas of biomaterials, ...
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  • April 28, 2004

    Professor Lisa Huettel Wins Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award

    Lisa Huettel receives her award from Stacy Klein Lisa G. Huettel, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, has won the first Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Huettel, who received a plaque and $2,000 at the Engineering Alumni Banquet April 24, was nominated by Pratt undergraduates and selected by a faculty committee. "You should take great pride in the fact that in a school with many outstanding teachers, ...
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  • April 28, 2004

    Professor Karl Linden Wins Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award

    Karl Linden receives his research award from Stacy Klein Karl Linden, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has received the new Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award for his work on using ultraviolet light to disinfect drinking water and destroy chemical pollutants. Linden, who joined the Pratt faculty in 1999, was selected by a committee of senior associate deans headed by Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson. The award, consisting of ...
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  • April 3, 2004

    Bejan to Receive 14th Honorary Doctorate in Bulgaria

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Adrian Bejan, the J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University, will receive an honorary doctorate, his 14th such degree, from the Technical University of Gabrovo in Bulgaria on April 5. Bejan has come a long way from his teenage years as a professional basketball player in Romania. He won a full academic scholarship to MIT, defected from his then-communist home country to complete his Ph.D., ...
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  • April 1, 2004

    Huettel appointed ECE Director of Undergraduate Labs

    Lisa G. Huettel, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed Director of Undergraduate Laboratories for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "I am very appreciative that Lisa has taken on this effort," said April S. Brown, ECE Department Chair. "Her experience and excellence in teaching, as well as laboratory design and enhancement, make her uniquely suited for this new position." Huettel will work with her colleagues in ECE to ensure ...
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  • April 1, 2004

    Huettel appointed ECE Director of Undergraduate Labs

    Lisa G. Huettel, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed Director of Undergraduate Laboratories for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "I am very appreciative that Lisa has taken on this effort," said April S. Brown, ECE Department Chair. "Her experience and excellence in teaching, as well as laboratory design and enhancement, make her uniquely suited for this new position." Huettel will work with her colleagues in ECE to ensure ...
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  • March 1, 2004

    Schuler, Wax Receive NSF Career Awards

    Assistant professors Andrew Schuler and Adam P. Wax at Dukey's Pratt School of Engineering have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. Each award is expected to total $400,000 over five years. "The CAREER award is NSF's most prestigious honor for junior faculty members," the federal research agency said. "The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders ...
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  • March 1, 2004

    Schuler, Wax Receive NSF Career Awards

    Assistant professors Andrew Schuler and Adam P. Wax at Dukey's Pratt School of Engineering have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. Each award is expected to total $400,000 over five years. "The CAREER award is NSF's most prestigious honor for junior faculty members," the federal research agency said. "The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders ...
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  • March 1, 2004

    David Brady to Step Down as Director of Duke's Fitzpatrick Center

    David Brady plans to step down as director of the burgeoning Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering to take on increasing research responsibilities at the center, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Feb. 4. Brady, who joined Pratt in 2001 to start the Fitzpatrick Center, leads a research program in computational sensors for biomedical and national defense applications and will continue to head the Duke Integrated Sensing and Processing laboratory, one ...
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  • March 1, 2004

    David Brady to Step Down as Director of Duke's Fitzpatrick Center

    David Brady plans to step down as director of the burgeoning Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering to take on increasing research responsibilities at the center, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Feb. 4. Brady, who joined Pratt in 2001 to start the Fitzpatrick Center, leads a research program in computational sensors for biomedical and national defense applications and will continue to head the Duke Integrated Sensing and Processing laboratory, one ...
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  • February 25, 2004

    Two Duke Engineering Professors Win Career Awards

    Assistant professors Andrew Schuler and Adam P. Wax at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. Each award is expected to total $400,000 over five years. "The CAREER award is NSF's most prestigious honor for junior faculty members," the federal research agency said. "The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic ...
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  • February 5, 2004

    David Brady to Step Down as Director of Duke's Fitzpatrick Center

    DURHAM, N.C. -- David Brady plans to step down as director of the burgeoning Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering to take on increasing research responsibilities at the center, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Wednesday. Brady, who joined Pratt in 2001 to start the Fitzpatrick Center, leads a research program in computational sensors for biomedical and national defense applications and will continue to head the Duke Integrated Sensing and Processing ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Duke Bags Honor as IEEE's 1 millionth Online Technology Document

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) released its 1 millionth online technical document to researchers in January. There are now more than 1,000,200 full-text technology papers, articles and standards in IEEE Xplore, the delivery system for IEEE online publications. The milestone document, "Novel Frame Buffer Pixel Circuits for Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon Microdisplays," was published in the January issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. The paper was written by IEEE Members Sangrok Lee and James C. Morizio ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Duke Bags Honor as IEEE's 1 millionth Online Technology Document

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) released its 1 millionth online technical document to researchers in January. There are now more than 1,000,200 full-text technology papers, articles and standards in IEEE Xplore, the delivery system for IEEE online publications. The milestone document, "Novel Frame Buffer Pixel Circuits for Liquid-Crystal-on-Silicon Microdisplays," was published in the January issue of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. The paper was written by IEEE Members Sangrok Lee and James C. Morizio ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Engineering in the Media

    For the public, the most important sources for information are the media television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the Web. Many scientists and engineers, however, are uncomfortable about publicizing their research. Avoiding popularizing one's work has been a long-standing part of the traditional research culture. Scientists such as Carl Sagan were chided by their technical peers despite impressive peer-reviewed publication records. For decades "Publish or Perish" was the rule to live by for the aspiring ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Engineering in the Media

    For the public, the most important sources for information are the media television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the Web. Many scientists and engineers, however, are uncomfortable about publicizing their research. Avoiding popularizing one's work has been a long-standing part of the traditional research culture. Scientists such as Carl Sagan were chided by their technical peers despite impressive peer-reviewed publication records. For decades "Publish or Perish" was the rule to live by for the aspiring ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Kristina M. Johnson Receives Society Of Women Engineers' Highest Honor

    The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) announced today that Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering is the recipient of the 2004 SWE Achievement Award, the highest award given by the Society for her outstanding contributions to the field of engineering for more than 20 years. Johnson received the Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to optoelectronic processing systems and liquid crystal devices. "SWE has a 50-year tradition of ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Kristina M. Johnson Receives Society Of Women Engineers' Highest Honor

    The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) announced today that Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering is the recipient of the 2004 SWE Achievement Award, the highest award given by the Society for her outstanding contributions to the field of engineering for more than 20 years. Johnson received the Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to optoelectronic processing systems and liquid crystal devices. "SWE has a 50-year tradition of ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Science Recognizes Chilkoti As Top Prof for Postdocs

    Duke's Ashutosh Chilkoti, associate professor of biomedical engineering, was named a Top Principal Investigator in a Science magazine Science Careers survey, published in October. The goal of the survey was to determine what characteristics postdocs value most in the researchers they work for, and to identify the principal investigators who best embody those characteristics. For Chilkoti, building successful working relationships with postdoctoral fellows is all about 'learning the individual.' "There is no one mode of success, but ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    Science Recognizes Chilkoti As Top Prof for Postdocs

    Duke's Ashutosh Chilkoti, associate professor of biomedical engineering, was named a Top Principal Investigator in a Science magazine Science Careers survey, published in October. The goal of the survey was to determine what characteristics postdocs value most in the researchers they work for, and to identify the principal investigators who best embody those characteristics. For Chilkoti, building successful working relationships with postdoctoral fellows is all about 'learning the individual.' "There is no one mode of success, but ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    NSF supports more K-12 outreach from the Pratt School of Engineering

    The National Science Foundation recently awarded $1.4 million to the Pratt School of Engineering for continued support to Pratt's math, science and engineering outreach in neighboring elementary and middle schools. The latest grant, entitled MUSIC: Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum, is a five-year project headed by Gary Ybarra, associate professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Martha Absher, assistant dean for education and outreach. The MUSIC Program partners Pratt ...
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  • January 1, 2004

    NSF supports more K-12 outreach from the Pratt School of Engineering

    The National Science Foundation recently awarded $1.4 million to the Pratt School of Engineering for continued support to Pratt's math, science and engineering outreach in neighboring elementary and middle schools. The latest grant, entitled MUSIC: Math Understanding through Science Integrated with Curriculum, is a five-year project headed by Gary Ybarra, associate professor of the practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Martha Absher, assistant dean for education and outreach. The MUSIC Program partners Pratt ...
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  • December 17, 2003

    Wright Brothers' Success Built on Failure, Duke Professors Say

    The Wright brothers owed the success of their Dec. 17, 1903 first flight, at least in part, to the many failures of aviation pioneers before them, according to Duke University professors. Otto Lilienthal, for example, had died in an 1896 glider accident. The Wright brothers deduced from the failure that Lilienthal's attempt to control his craft by shifting his body weight was not the best way to attack the problem. "Their use of elevators and rudders and ...
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  • October 28, 2003

    Faculty Profile: Nan Jokerst -- Engineering on Smaller Scales

    By Monte Basgall Fresh from 14 successful years at Georgia Institute of Technology, during which her research drew praise and her teaching drew national recognition, Nan Marie Jokerst has come to the Pratt School of Engineering to advance her research and teaching even more dramatically. In fact, the new professor of electrical engineering and computer science said she arrived at Duke a year early to prepare facilities for what she believes will be major research achievements. She and ...
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  • September 23, 2003

    Duke Engineer's Latest Book Focuses on Design of Everyday Things

    DURHAM, N.C. -- What do paper cups, toothbrushes, supermarket layouts, grocery bags, kitchen faucets, door knobs and automobile cup holders have in common? They all are the imperfect products of designers seeking to come up with something better for consumers. Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, looks at the design of things we take for granted and concludes there can never be an end to the ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Johnson Named to Science Foundation Ireland Board

    DUBLIN, Ireland Dean Kristina M. Johnson of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has been appointed to the 12-member board of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the foundation announced Aug. 5. The board includes leaders from the engineering and scientific research communities, business, academia and public service. The members were selected "on the basis of their leadership experience and accomplishments in their careers," SFI said. "I am extremely pleased that we have been able to name ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Johnson Named to Science Foundation Ireland Board

    DUBLIN, Ireland Dean Kristina M. Johnson of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has been appointed to the 12-member board of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the foundation announced Aug. 5. The board includes leaders from the engineering and scientific research communities, business, academia and public service. The members were selected "on the basis of their leadership experience and accomplishments in their careers," SFI said. "I am extremely pleased that we have been able to name ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson Named to Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

    Kristina M. Johnson, among the pioneers of applications of liquid crystals, including micro displays for high-definition projection television, and dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame on June 25, at a ceremony at the group's annual meeting in San Jose, Calif. WITI, a global organization dedicated to advancing women in technology careers, established the Hall of Fame in 1996 to recognize outstanding women for ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson Named to Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

    Kristina M. Johnson, among the pioneers of applications of liquid crystals, including micro displays for high-definition projection television, and dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame on June 25, at a ceremony at the group's annual meeting in San Jose, Calif. WITI, a global organization dedicated to advancing women in technology careers, established the Hall of Fame in 1996 to recognize outstanding women for ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Franzoni New Associate Dean for Student Affairs

    Linda P. Franzoni, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, has been appointed associate dean for student affairs at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Aug. 22. "Student-oriented academic services represent the bedrock of Pratt's ability to provide a bold, personal engineering education, and Linda has a wonderful combination of teaching, practical and research experience to lead us in this important area," Johnson said. "During this first year of her leadership, ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Franzoni New Associate Dean for Student Affairs

    Linda P. Franzoni, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, has been appointed associate dean for student affairs at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Aug. 22. "Student-oriented academic services represent the bedrock of Pratt's ability to provide a bold, personal engineering education, and Linda has a wonderful combination of teaching, practical and research experience to lead us in this important area," Johnson said. "During this first year of her leadership, ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Duke Engineer Receives Humbolt Fellowship

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty, an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, has received a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He will spend the spring semester of 2004 in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants research fellowships and research awards to highly qualified scholars and scientists of all nationalities not resident in Germany, enabling them to undertake periods of research in Germany, as well as research fellowships to ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Duke Engineer Receives Humbolt Fellowship

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty, an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, has received a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He will spend the spring semester of 2004 in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants research fellowships and research awards to highly qualified scholars and scientists of all nationalities not resident in Germany, enabling them to undertake periods of research in Germany, as well as research fellowships to ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Jeffrey Glass Named Head of Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke

    Jeffrey T. Glass has joined Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering as the Hogg Family Director of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In announcing the appointment July 10, Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson said Glass will expand an already successful professional program that provides advanced training in engineering management, finance and marketing so its graduates "can hit the ground running" in industry upon graduation. "Jeff brings outstanding scholarship and ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    Jeffrey Glass Named Head of Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke

    Jeffrey T. Glass has joined Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering as the Hogg Family Director of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In announcing the appointment July 10, Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson said Glass will expand an already successful professional program that provides advanced training in engineering management, finance and marketing so its graduates "can hit the ground running" in industry upon graduation. "Jeff brings outstanding scholarship and ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    George Truskey Named Chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Professor George A. Truskey, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, has been named chair of the department, Dean Kristina Johnson announced July 1. Truskey succeeds Professor Morton Friedman, who is returning to full-time teaching and research in the department. "Dr. Truskey is a world class researcher who also is one of our most gifted teachers," Johnson said. "His role in shaping the department, which will be expanding ...
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  • September 1, 2003

    George Truskey Named Chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Professor George A. Truskey, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, has been named chair of the department, Dean Kristina Johnson announced July 1. Truskey succeeds Professor Morton Friedman, who is returning to full-time teaching and research in the department. "Dr. Truskey is a world class researcher who also is one of our most gifted teachers," Johnson said. "His role in shaping the department, which will be expanding ...
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  • August 23, 2003

    Linda Franzoni Named Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Pratt

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Linda P. Franzoni, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, has been appointed associate dean for student affairs at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Friday. "Student-oriented academic services represent the bedrock of Pratt's ability to provide a bold, personal engineering education, and Linda has a wonderful combination of teaching, practical and research experience to lead us in this important area," Johnson said. "During this first year of ...
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  • August 21, 2003

    Duke Engineer Receives Humboldt Fellowship

    Krishnendu Chakrabarty, an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University, has received a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He will spend the spring semester of 2004 in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants research fellowships and research awards to highly qualified scholars and scientists of all nationalities not resident in Germany, enabling them to undertake periods of research in Germany, as well as research fellowships to ...
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  • August 16, 2003

    Jones Plans to Return to Full-time Teaching and Research

    Professor Phillip L. Jones is leaving his position as senior associate dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering Sept. 1 and will return to full-time teaching and research, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Friday. "Phil is a terrific colleague," Johnson said. "In his four years as senior associate dean for education, he oversaw the important curriculum review, guided the school through a successful ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) review this past year, established faculty awards ...
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  • August 6, 2003

    Duke Engineer Honored by National Academy of Engineering

    Steven A. Cummer, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) ninth annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Cummer is one of 83 engineers between the ages of 30-45 selected from a field of 170 nominees across the nation to take part in the symposium, to be held Sept. 18-20 at the National Academies' Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center ...
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  • August 6, 2003

    Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson Named to Board of Science Foundation Ireland

    DUBLIN, Ireland Dean Kristina M. Johnson of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has been appointed to the 12-member board of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the foundation announced Tuesday. The board includes leaders from the engineering and scientific research communities, business, academia and public service. The members were selected "on the basis of their leadership experience and accomplishments in their careers," SFI said. "I am extremely pleased that we have been able to name such ...
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  • July 16, 2003

    Lawrence Carin Named William H. Younger Professor of Engineering at Duke

    DURHAM, N.C. Professor Lawrence Carin of the Department of Electrical and Computer at the Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, has been named the William H. Younger Professor of Engineering, Dean Kristina Johnson announced. Carin earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, in College Park. He joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY, in 1989 as an assistant professor, and became an associate professor ...
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  • July 11, 2003

    Jeffrey Glass Named Head of Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Jeffrey T. Glass has joined Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering as the Hogg Family Director of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship and professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In announcing the appointment Wednesday, Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson said Glass will expand an already successful professional program that provides advanced training in engineering management, finance and marketing so its graduates "can hit the ground running" in industry upon graduation. "Jeff brings outstanding ...
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  • July 1, 2003

    George Truskey Named Chair of Department of Biomedical Engineering

    DURHAM, N.C. Professor George A. Truskey, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, has been named chair of the department, Dean Kristina Johnson announced Tuesday. Truskey succeeds Professor Morton Friedman, who is returning to full-time teaching and research in the department. "Dr. Truskey is a world class researcher who also is one of our most gifted teachers," Johnson said. "His role in shaping the department, which ...
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  • June 20, 2003

    Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson Named to Women in Technology International Hall of Fame

    Kristina M. Johnson, among the pioneers of applications of liquid crystals, including micro displays for high-definition projection television, and dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, will be inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame on June 25, at a ceremony at the group's annual meeting in San Jose, Calif. WITI, a global organization dedicated to advancing women in technology careers, established the Hall of Fame in 1996 to recognize outstanding women ...
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  • June 1, 2003

    Dean Johnson Reappointed to Second Term

    The Duke University Board of Trustees May 10 reappointed Kristina M. Johnson dean of the Pratt School of Engineering to a second five-year term to run through 2008-2009. Johnson was named dean of the Pratt School in 1999 and led the development of the school's strategic plan as part of "Building on Excellence." Each university officer and dean undergoes a review after the first four years of their term and Provost Peter Lange said he and ...
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  • June 1, 2003

    Dean Johnson Reappointed to Second Term

    The Duke University Board of Trustees May 10 reappointed Kristina M. Johnson dean of the Pratt School of Engineering to a second five-year term to run through 2008-2009. Johnson was named dean of the Pratt School in 1999 and led the development of the school's strategic plan as part of "Building on Excellence." Each university officer and dean undergoes a review after the first four years of their term and Provost Peter Lange said he and ...
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  • May 7, 2003

    American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Petroski, Five Others from Duke

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Six Duke University scholars and researchers have been elected to join the 2003 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people and public leaders. The academy announced Monday its newly elected Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. The six scholars from Duke are Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic professor of civil and environmental engineering; theological ethics professor Stanley M. ...
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  • April 27, 2003

    Pratt School of Engineering Honors Faculty and Alumni

    Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering recognized two alumni for their achievements and two faculty members for excellence in teaching and research at the annual alumni banquet April 26 that concluded the spring meeting of the school's Board of Visitors. Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences Professor Charles Harman received the distinguished faculty teaching award, consisting of a plaque and $2,000. The award, selected by a faculty committee with student input, recognizes "superior dedication to undergraduate teaching." Harman ...
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  • March 1, 2003

    Laursen Named Senior Associate Dean

    Tod Laursen, an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in civil and environmental engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed the school's senior associate dean for education, Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson announced Feb. 26. "In this new position, Tod will help take the school to the next level of high-impact engineering education as outlined in our Strategic Plan," Johnson said. She said Laursen will develop a school-wide strategy for recruiting graduate and undergraduate students. He also will work ...
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  • March 1, 2003

    Laursen Named Senior Associate Dean

    Tod Laursen, an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in civil and environmental engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed the school's senior associate dean for education, Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson announced Feb. 26. "In this new position, Tod will help take the school to the next level of high-impact engineering education as outlined in our Strategic Plan," Johnson said. She said Laursen will develop a school-wide strategy for recruiting graduate and undergraduate students. He also will work ...
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  • February 27, 2003

    Laursen Named Senior Associate Dean at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Tod Laursen, an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in civil and environmental engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed the school's senior associate dean for education, Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson announced Wednesday. "In this new position, Tod will help take the school to the next level of high-impact engineering education as outlined in our Strategic Plan," Johnson said. She said Laursen will develop a school-wide strategy for recruiting ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Brady named an OSA Fellow

    David J. Brady, the Addy Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of Pratt's Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications, has been named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). OSA President G. Michael Morris notified Brady of the honor in a letter dated Oct. 27. The society recognizes Brady's development of three-dimensional optical systems for interferometric and tomographic imaging, computational sensing and information processing, Morris wrote. Brady holds a B.A. in physics ...
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  • February 1, 2003

    Brady named an OSA Fellow

    David J. Brady, the Addy Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of Pratt's Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications, has been named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). OSA President G. Michael Morris notified Brady of the honor in a letter dated Oct. 27. The society recognizes Brady's development of three-dimensional optical systems for interferometric and tomographic imaging, computational sensing and information processing, Morris wrote. Brady holds a B.A. in physics ...
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  • December 1, 2002

    Duke Engineer's Latest Book Focuses on Design of Everyday Things

    What do paper cups, toothbrushes, supermarket layouts, grocery bags, kitchen faucets, door knobs and automobile cup holders have in common? They all are the imperfect products of designers seeking to come up with something better for consumers. Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, looks at the design of things we take for granted and concludes there can never be an end to the quest for the ...
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  • December 1, 2002

    Duke Engineer's Latest Book Focuses on Design of Everyday Things

    What do paper cups, toothbrushes, supermarket layouts, grocery bags, kitchen faucets, door knobs and automobile cup holders have in common? They all are the imperfect products of designers seeking to come up with something better for consumers. Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, looks at the design of things we take for granted and concludes there can never be an end to the quest for the ...
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  • October 26, 2002

    Homecoming For Pratt School's New Electrical And Computer Engineering Head

    DURHAM, NC -- When April Brown was a high school student in nearby Hillsborough, she thought about becoming a psychologist. It was her father, an electrical engineer who got his Ph.D. at Duke and spent most of his career at Research Triangle Institute, who encouraged her to first try engineering. "He had a perspective that engineering is a wonderful broad degree that could lead to many other types of careers," recalled Brown, who quickly discovered she was ...
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  • October 4, 2002

    Duke Engineering Chair Calls for Use of Title IX to Increase Number of Women Engineers

    WASHINGTON -- Professor April Brown, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, urged a Senate committee Thursday to apply Title IX, the federal gender anti-discrimination law usually used in athletics, to encourage more women to become engineers and scientists. "The resulting pool of scientists and engineers will be larger and more diverse, which means we as a nation will be better prepared for the technological challenges our ...
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  • September 1, 2002

    Pratt Dean Tells U.S. Senate Nation Needs Women, Minorities in Engineering

    WASHINGTON -- The dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has urged the Senate to act to improve the science and math education of America's children, particularly girls and minorities, so the nation will have the intellectual wherewithal to deal with terrorism and other complex issues. "It is clear we are engaged in a different kind of war that must be won with advanced logistics, networking, sensors and communications systems," Kristina Johnson told the Senate Subcommittee ...
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  • September 1, 2002

    Pratt Dean Tells U.S. Senate Nation Needs Women, Minorities in Engineering

    WASHINGTON -- The dean of Duke's Pratt School of Engineering has urged the Senate to act to improve the science and math education of America's children, particularly girls and minorities, so the nation will have the intellectual wherewithal to deal with terrorism and other complex issues. "It is clear we are engaged in a different kind of war that must be won with advanced logistics, networking, sensors and communications systems," Kristina Johnson told the Senate Subcommittee ...
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  • September 1, 2002

    Cummer, Three Others, Win Presidential Award

    Steven Cummer, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, was one of four Duke faculty members who visited the White House July 12 to be honored for their 2001 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a special recognition for young federally-funded investigators. Begun by President Clinton, the PECASE program provides additional recognition for a select group of researchers whose projects are deemed of greatest benefit to their funding agencies' missions. Cummer, an assistant ...
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  • September 1, 2002

    Cummer, Three Others, Win Presidential Award

    Steven Cummer, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, was one of four Duke faculty members who visited the White House July 12 to be honored for their 2001 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a special recognition for young federally-funded investigators. Begun by President Clinton, the PECASE program provides additional recognition for a select group of researchers whose projects are deemed of greatest benefit to their funding agencies' missions. Cummer, an assistant ...
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  • July 25, 2002

    Pratt Dean Says Nation Needs Women, Minorities in Engineering

    WASHINGTON -- The leader of Duke University's engineering school Wednesday urged America to improve the science and math education of its children, particularly girls and minorities, so the nation will have the intellectual wherewithal to deal with terrorism and other complex issues. "It is clear we are engaged in a different kind of war that must be won with advanced logistics, networking, sensors and communications systems," said Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering. ...
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  • July 13, 2002

    Engineer, Three Other Faculty Members Receive Presidential Awards

    A Duke engineer uses lightning discharges as tools to probe an under-studied region of Earth's atmosphere. A Duke chemist develops a better method to measure the stability of proteins. One Duke medical researcher studies the roles of two genes in molecular pathways that regulate the structural development of the head and face. A second works to improve the quality of life for dying patients. All four Duke faculty were among 60 in the nation honored July ...
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  • March 29, 2002

    Duke Engineer Turns His Intellectual Curiosity to His Days Delivering Newspapers

    DURHAM, N.C. -- Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, has written about bridges, pencils, paperclips, books and bookshelves, engineering errors and more. In his latest book, he turns his intellectual curiosity inward, to his teenage days when he delivered newspapers. In Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer (Alfred A. Knopf, March 2002), Petroski describes in detail how one folds a newspaper perfectly and flips it onto ...
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  • February 13, 2002

    Major International Conference on Information Science Set for March

    MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SCIENCES SET FOR MARCH About 400 engineers, scientists and technology managers from 34 countries are expected to attend the sixth Joint Conference on Information Sciences in Research Triangle Park next month to discuss the latest high-tech developments in areas such as artificial intelligence and optical ommunications. The meeting, which will include 10 workshops and specialty conferences, will be held March 8-13 at the Imperial Sheraton Hotel and Convention Center in Durham. "The concept ...
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  • February 5, 2002

    April Brown Named Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    DURHAM, N.C. April S. Brown, professor of electrical and computer engineering and executive assistant to the president at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been appointed chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Pratt Dean Kristina Johnson announced the appointment Monday and said Brown "is a strategic thinker and an internationally recognized scholar whose field of expertise lies in the fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic materials ...
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  • February 1, 2002

    Engineering Professor Draws More Honors

    Engineering professor draws more honors Adrian Bejan, the J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering who prides himself on advancing thermodynamics theory using pencil and paper rather than a fancy lab, has added another plaudit to his long list. Bejan, who received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1975, has won the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International's (ASME) Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, a career-spanning honor recognizing ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    Pratt's Faculty Attracts April Brown to Duke

    When April Brown was a high school student in nearby Hillsborough, she thought about becoming a psychologist. It was her father, an electrical engineer who got his Ph.D. at Duke and spent most of his career at Research Triangle Institute, who encouraged her to first try engineering. "He had a perspective that engineering is a wonderful broad degree that could lead to many other types of careers," recalled Brown, who quickly discovered she was an engineering natural. Today, Brown is not only became ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    Pratt's Faculty Attracts April Brown to Duke

    When April Brown was a high school student in nearby Hillsborough, she thought about becoming a psychologist. It was her father, an electrical engineer who got his Ph.D. at Duke and spent most of his career at Research Triangle Institute, who encouraged her to first try engineering. "He had a perspective that engineering is a wonderful broad degree that could lead to many other types of careers," recalled Brown, who quickly discovered she was an engineering natural. Today, Brown is not only became ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    One-Question Interview: Gary Ybarra

    Q: Gary, you and your colleagues are developing a reputation for innovative efforts to improve K-12 math and science education in North Carolina. What are some of the things that your team is doing? A: Just last week, three colleagues at Duke's Center for Inquiry-Based Learning (CIBL) and I received a five-year, $5.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation for TASC (Teachers and Scientists Collaborating). The TASC Force, as we call it, seeks to narrow achievement gaps, improve end-of-grade science and ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    One-Question Interview: Gary Ybarra

    Q: Gary, you and your colleagues are developing a reputation for innovative efforts to improve K-12 math and science education in North Carolina. What are some of the things that your team is doing? A: Just last week, three colleagues at Duke's Center for Inquiry-Based Learning (CIBL) and I received a five-year, $5.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation for TASC (Teachers and Scientists Collaborating). The TASC Force, as we call it, seeks to narrow achievement gaps, improve end-of-grade science and ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    Brown Calls for Use of Title IX to Increase Women Engineers

    WASHINGTON -- Professor April Brown, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, urged a Senate committee Oct. 3 to apply Title IX, the federal gender anti-discrimination law usually used in athletics, to encourage more women to become engineers and scientists. "The resulting pool of scientists and engineers will be larger and more diverse, which means we as a nation will be better prepared for the technological challenges our future will bring," Brown said in ...
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  • January 1, 2002

    Brown Calls for Use of Title IX to Increase Women Engineers

    WASHINGTON -- Professor April Brown, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, urged a Senate committee Oct. 3 to apply Title IX, the federal gender anti-discrimination law usually used in athletics, to encourage more women to become engineers and scientists. "The resulting pool of scientists and engineers will be larger and more diverse, which means we as a nation will be better prepared for the technological challenges our future will bring," Brown said in ...
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  • December 1, 2001

    A Q&A with Professor Henry Petroski

    Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, is an expert in the implications of failure for engineering. In his book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985), Petroski explored how engineers learned from engineering failures. In a recent interview with Dialogue, Petroski discusses how the collapse of the World Trade Center towers has changed engineering thinking. Q. In the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks, you said you expected this ...
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  • December 1, 2001

    A Q&A with Professor Henry Petroski

    Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history, is an expert in the implications of failure for engineering. In his book, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985), Petroski explored how engineers learned from engineering failures. In a recent interview with Dialogue, Petroski discusses how the collapse of the World Trade Center towers has changed engineering thinking. Q. In the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks, you said you expected this ...
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  • October 28, 2001

    Panelists: Technology Offers Opportunity to Fight Terrorism

    by Steven Wright Information will be the most important weapon in the war against terrorism, five Duke University professors said Thursday night (Oct. 25). "This is the largest opportunity for engineers in a generation to contribute to the public good," said David Brady, director of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems and professor of electrical engineering. The Pratt School of Engineering forum, the seventh in a series sponsored by the university to address issues confronting ...
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  • October 27, 2001

    New Faculty Profile: Roni Avissar

    Roni Avissar, the Pratt School's new chair of civil and environmental engineering, wants to teach astronauts. And not just any astronauts, but true space pioneers - men and women who will someday lead missions to Mars, live on the Moon, spend years in the international space station. Given the pace of technological development and the rising average age of mission commanders, Avissar figures these future explorers are in high school right now. This means it's about time ...
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  • September 13, 2001

    Duke Engineer: World Trade Center Disaster May Halt Construction of Supertall Buildings

    DURHAM, N.C. -- With the tragic coordinated jetliner destructions of both World Trade Center towers in New York City Sept. 11, a Duke University engineering professor says "we very well may see the end of tall buildings of that magnitude for the foreseeable future." "I think its going to be very difficult to make a proposal that financiers, the people that supply the money to invest in these buildings, are going to embrace," said Petroski, Aleksandar ...
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  • March 9, 2001

    Associate Dean for Corporate, Industrial Relations Named at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering

    ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR CORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS NAMED AT DUKE'S PRATT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING DURHAM, N.C. -- Russell Holloway has been named associate dean for corporate and industrial relations, a new post, at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. As a member of the senior administrative staff, Holloway will be responsible for initiating programs to promote industrial awareness among students and faculty. He will develop summer internships for undergraduates, and cooperative programs for master's students. He will organize the engineering ...
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  • March 9, 2001

    Associate Dean for Corporate, Industrial Relations Named at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering

    ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR CORPORATE, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS NAMED AT DUKE'S PRATT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING DURHAM, N.C. -- Russell Holloway has been named associate dean for corporate and industrial relations, a new post, at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. As a member of the senior administrative staff, Holloway will be responsible for initiating programs to promote industrial awareness among students and faculty. He will develop summer internships for undergraduates, and cooperative programs for master's students. He will organize the engineering ...
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  • September 16, 1999

    Latest Henry Petroski Book Assesses Evolution and Engineering of Bookshelves

    DURHAM, N.C. - After writing six previous books for general audiences on engineering triumphs and disasters, famous bridges, and the histories of the pencil and other interesting objects, the latest volume by Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the storing, packaging, displaying and care of books themselves. Petroski, the chairman of Duke's department of civil and environmental engineering, traces the inspiration for his newest work, "The Book On The Bookshelf" (September 1999, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., ...
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