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Xianyi Cheng: Going Beyond Human Dexterity
9/24 Pratt School of Engineering

Xianyi Cheng: Going Beyond Human Dexterity

Cheng’s work focuses on dexterous manipulation in robotics, emphasizing the need for robotic systems that can handle diverse complicated manual tasks

$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program
9/24 Pratt School of Engineering

$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program

The Karsh STEM+ Scholars Program will match undergraduate students who have declared majors in disciplines in the natural sciences, engineering, and STEM-related fields with faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.

Christopher Douglas: Shaping the Flow of Fluid Dynamics
9/18 Pratt School of Engineering

Christopher Douglas: Shaping the Flow of Fluid Dynamics

New faculty member Christopher Douglas plans to expand on his research of thermo-fluid dynamics, motivated by applications in renewable power generation

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Why Children Perceive Time Slower Than Adults
9/9 BBC

Why Children Perceive Time Slower Than Adults

Adrian Bejan proposes a theory about how many mental images our brain takes as we age as a reason why time seems to go slower in our youths

Michael Rubinstein Receives National ACS Award in Polymers
8/29 Duke Chemistry

Michael Rubinstein Receives National ACS Award in Polymers

career has shed multiple insights into the molecular basis for the physical behavior of polymers through theoretical modeling of polymeric liquids and networks, including association and entanglement effects

Adrian Bejan of Duke University
Adrian Bejan Wins ASME Medal
8/27 Pratt School of Engineering

Adrian Bejan Wins ASME Medal

The highest award that the society can bestow recognizes “eminently distinguished engineering achievement”