Featured
January 05, 2021
Payne Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
MEMS Associate Professor Christine Payne recognized for outstanding contributions to chemistry with research on interaction between materials and cells
January 15, 2021
Boyd-Sinkler Named Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Duke Engineering
Beginning in March 2021, Karis Boyd-Sinkler will advance diversity, equity, inclusion and community across Duke Engineering
January 11, 2021
Post-Surgical Patch Releases Non-Opioid Painkiller Directly to the Wound
New polymer promises localized pain control for critical first four days
December 28, 2020
Hayes Heads to the Pentagon
December 18, 2020
Sound Waves Spin Droplets to Concentrate, Separate Nanoparticles
December 16, 2020
2020 Triangle Hard Matter Workshop Was a Resounding Success
December 10, 2020
Kielb Receives ASME’s R. Tom Sawyer Award
Events
View more upcoming events2021 HybriD3 Theory Training Workshop
9:10 am Zoom
Presenter: Volker Blum (MEMS) and Yosuke Kanai (UNC) and others
Media Coverage
See more media coverageNew Atlas | January 13, 2021
Painkiller-Dispensing Patch Could Be an Alternative to Opioids
Featuring Matthew Becker
Chemistry World | January 11, 2021
How Tunnelling Titanium Turns a Perfect Crystal Into a Bad Heat Conductor
Featuring Olivier Delaire
The Australian | December 7, 2020
Thirty Expats Initially Feared ‘Stranded’ After Plane Malfunction Touch Down on Home Soil
Featuring Alanna Manfredini
Duke MEMS Newsletter
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NSF-funded training programs: AI for Materials Design and Biomolecular & Tissue Engineering
Top 10
in U.S. mechanical engineering faculty research productivity —Academic Analytics (v.2020)
$10 million
in new research awards, fiscal 2020
nearly90%
of Duke MEMS students have jobs or job offers at graduation—2020 survey