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MEMS Professor Po-Chun Hsu demonstrates a smart material that can passively heat and cool buildings.

Deployed on roofs or facades, passive technology could greatly reduce HVAC energy consumption in buildings

Duke Materials Initiative’s milestone event on polymer networks engages 300+ attendees from 16 nations

With a device to make cardiovascular procedures safer, Duke’s ArchGuard team was recognized out of 2,000 applicants

Duke Design Health Fellows who invented a novel medical device which helps prevent stroke during cardiac surgery advanced to finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition and need your vote to win

Device protects human liver cells producing critical biomolecules for six months in mice

Naming honors gift by the family of Clayton Christensen, the management thinker who coined ‘disruptive innovation’

The new Duke Engineering center seeks to not only develop student innovators, but discover how to make innovation easier, faster, cheaper

MEMS Professor Adrian Bejan theorizes that the reason we remember our childhood as lasting much longer than our adult life is due to the fact that our brains process images more slowly as our bodies age.

Dan Buckland helps launch the Duke Space Initiative to serve in the near-term as a resource center for higher education on space, and eventually as the home of a space studies certificate program for undergraduates at Duke

Jerome Lynch shares his perspectives on Duke Engineering, initial priorities as dean, and vision for the transformative role engineers can play in society

Stefan Zauscher’s lab provides hands-on summer research experiences for two public school science teachers, reaping benefits in the process