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Viniks Give $10 Million for Duke Faculty Who Engage with Engineering Challenges

May 8, 2012

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University alumnus Jeffrey N. Vinik and his wife Penny have given Duke $10 million to establish a faculty challenge fund that will be used to hire and retain professors who focus on complex societal challenges such as...

Creating Nano-Structures from the Bottom Up

Apr 24, 2012

DURHAM, N.C. -- Microscopic particles are being coaxed by Duke University engineers to assemble themselves into larger crystalline structures by the use of varying concentrations of microscopic particles and magnetic fields. These nano-scale crystal...

Dowell Named MEMS Chair

Apr 10, 2012

Earl Dowell has been named chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. The announcement was made by Pratt Dean Tom Katsouleas. Dowell, William Holland Hall Professor...

Metamaterials Will Change Optics

Mar 20, 2012

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University engineers believe that continued advances in creating ever-more exotic and sophisticated man-made materials will greatly improve their ability to control light at will.

Process Makes Polymers Truly Plastic

Mar 15, 2012

DURHAM, N.C. -- Just as a chameleon changes its color to blend in with its environment, Duke University engineers have demonstrated for the first time that they can alter the texture of plastics on demand, for example, switching back and forth...

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Supports Next Generation of Problem-Solvers

Mar 13, 2012

It makes perfect sense that Sidney Primas is double-majoring in biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering – his father suffered from the effects of a blood vessel disorder in his brain during a good portion of Primas’s...

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