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Duke Awards Degrees to 404 Engineers
Duke University and its Pratt School of Engineering awarded degrees to 230 undergraduate and 174 graduate students May 11 and engineering Dean Robert L. Clark said Pratt’s graduating seniors are ready to help tackle some of the many challenges facing the nation and the global society. “You are about to accept a much greater responsibility for yourselves, and as engineers, for all of humanity,” Clark told a standing-only-crowd of graduates, and their friends and families gathered in Duke Chapel. “I say this because engineers solve problems. And there are a number of challenging problems facing our society today.”
| Lee Pearson - Commencement 2008
My parents and I drove out to Duke from Spokane, Washington in a RV freshman year. For those of you from New York, an RV is essentially a mobile shack, complete with a stove, a table that can turn into a bed with a fair amount of effort, and sun shades for everything except the back of your neck. I won’t bore you with the details of the journey—trust me they are called the fly-over states for a reason—but it is easy to recall the sordid mix of emotions and questions that I felt with each mile ticking off the odometer as we inched towards Durham, NC: would I fit in? Would I have friends? And, I think the overwhelming question in most of our minds was, could we ‘cut it’ here?
| Gavin Wins Duke's Highest Undergraduate Teaching Award
This year, Duke University undergraduates voted Gavin the winner of the 2007-2008 Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. The honor, started in 1970 by the Duke Alumni Association, is intended to recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching. | Engineering the Heart - Damaged Heart Muscle Could Use Stem Cell Patch
Five Question Interview: How did you get from electrical engineering to heart muscles? What does a heart attack do to the heart muscle, and why does it need to be repaired? What’s so special about stem cells? Couldn’t you just use the patient’s own heart muscle to make repairs? What kind of stem cells are you using in your research? Why can’t you just grow a new heart in a dish or something?
| Tiny Trojan Horse Targets Tumors
Liposomes are tiny capsules made of lipids, the same fatty molecules that make up the membrane of every cell in the body. These synthetic spheres naturally tend to form into hollow capsules around a drop of watery solution. Read more at: DukeResearch Magazine. | Research Highlights
Scattered Light Reveals Size and Shape of Nucleus; First Steps Toward Autonomous Robot Surgeries; Novel Living System Recreates Predator-Prey Interaction | Faculty Awards & Recognition
Joseph Izatt Elected SPIE Fellow; Adrian Bejan Wins Kearn Award; You 2008 DuPont Young Investigator | Gift to Drive Better Understanding of Uncertainty Analysis
Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has received a gift of $5 million from an anonymous donor to establish a new undergraduate curriculum that will encourage students to think critically about problems that lack obvious solutions, like those they will encounter after graduation. |
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Incoming Dean Tom Katsouleas joins Duke on July 1, 2008. Katsouleas received both his B.S. (1979) and Ph.D (1984) in Physics from UCLA. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California where he has been since 1991. He and his research group have pioneered the use of plasmas as novel particle accelerators and light sources, and his work has been featured on the covers of Physical Review Letters, Scientific American, the CERN Courier and Nature. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications and given more than 50 major invited talks.
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