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Celebrating a Spring Filled with Awards
4/26/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Celebrating a Spring Filled with Awards

Duke Engineering faculty, graduate students and research staff garnered a wide array of awards and recognitions over the spring semester

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Engineering an Engaging Curriculum in Robotics
4/26/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Engineering an Engaging Curriculum in Robotics

Three new courses teach students the fundamentals of robotic coding, challenge students to build a walking robot and make students think about the ethics of the

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Do We Have a Sense of Time?
4/24/23 BBC World Service CrowdScience

Do We Have a Sense of Time?

CrowdScience listener Marie, in Sweden, has always had trouble with time. She wants to know if time is a sense, like our other senses. Duke professor Adrian Bejan answers.

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Helping Duke Engineers Share Their Stories
4/19/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Helping Duke Engineers Share Their Stories

New programming in Duke Engineering’s Graduate Communications and Intercultural Programs focuses on science communications

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Can Intelligence Be Separated From the Body?
4/11/23 The New York Times

Can Intelligence Be Separated From the Body?

MEMS Professor Boyuan Chen has some thoughts on whether AI can ever truly be intelligent without a body to interact with the world. “I believe that intelligence can’t be born without having the perspective of physical embodiments.”