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Engineering Aid for Refugees
5/9 Pratt School of Engineering

Engineering Aid for Refugees

Several groups of students and faculty in multiple programs tied to Duke Engineering are working to help those suffering from humanitarian crises.

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Reprogramming First-Year Computing
5/9 Pratt School of Engineering

Reprogramming First-Year Computing

Genevieve Lipp is reimagining the way coding is taught by focusing on process.

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Predicting the Rise of Ghost Forests in Eastern North Carolina
5/9 Pratt School of Engineering

Predicting the Rise of Ghost Forests in Eastern North Carolina

A Climate+ project built a data mining algorithm capable of connecting satellite imagery data to levels of salinity in coastal rivers, which could help communities prepare for the effects of climate change.

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Focusing Mechatronics on Medicine
5/9 Pratt School of Engineering

Focusing Mechatronics on Medicine

New faculty member Joanna Bertram brings interdisciplinary, fine-movement robotics research to Pratt.

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Tenting is Better with Engineers
5/9 Pratt School of Engineering

Tenting is Better with Engineers

An inside look at one student’s journey tenting in Duke’s famous K-ville for four years as an engineering student.

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Reimagining Academic Publishing with Game Theory
5/9 Pratt School of Engineering

Reimagining Academic Publishing with Game Theory

Duke researchers are launching an open-source publishing model where researchers are incentivized to participate in every step of a paper’s journey.

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The Perfect Fit
5/2 Duke Magazine

The Perfect Fit

Discover how Ted Kaufman's education and experience in Duke's mechanical engineering program helped launch his political career closely tied to President Joe Biden.

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Senior Spotlight: Izzy Dudlyke
5/1 Pratt School of Engineering

Senior Spotlight: Izzy Dudlyke

Graduating MEMS senior Izzy Dudlyke has combined Duke's strengths in engineering and the liberal arts to pursue her dream of working on movie sets and entertainment projects.