Applied Research and Classroom-Based Innovation

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Teaching practice, just as any other scholarly activity, is an area about which you can form questions and hypotheses, gather data, and iterate based on the results of your study. Many faculty at Duke engage in applied educational research or scholarship of teaching and learning in which they routinely explore questions about teaching and/or student […]

Discover the Unseen: Exploring Science’s Tiny Marvels

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ABOUT THIS EVENT Drop by the 1st floor MakerLab at the Durham County Main Library on Saturday, April 20th anytime between 10am - 2pm to explore nanotechnology and pick up a take-home DNA-themed STEM kit! In this "tiny science" themed NCSciFest Festival event, scientists from Duke University will walk you through activities such as: Using […]

Publishing for Impact

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Learn what goes on behind the scenes when you submit your manuscript!Tips on submitting to the right journal, discuss peer review management, making editorial decisions, insight for communicating with editors about your submission, and getting published quickly and in the right place. Chief Editor: Barbara Cheifet, PhD, Springer Nature, US Barbara completed her PhD in […]

Machine Learning for Precise Diagnostics and Therapeutics

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Drug discoveries have been instrumental in improving global health over the last century, but the median drug now takes about 10 years to bring to market and costs over a billion dollars to develop. The work in our lab aims to expedite the development of precise diagnostics and therapeutics by applying machine learning. In this […]

MEMS SEMINAR: Julian Rimoli, “Discontinuous Compression Structures: From Tensegrity Planetary Landers to Lightweight Metamaterials”

Fitzpatrick Center Schiciano Auditorium Side A, room 1464

Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering welcomes Dr. Julian Rimoli, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California -- Irvine. Dr. Rimoli will give the lecture, "Discontinuous Compression Systems: "Discontinuous Compression Structures: From Tensegrity Planetary Landers to Lightweight Metamaterials." ABSTRACT: The term tensegrity, derived from tensional integrity, refers to a certain class of […]

Reproducibility Crisis: What Can We Do?

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Join an interactive event organized by ASIST. Reserve your seat in the Research Integrity Roundtable "Reproducibility Crisis: What Can We Do?" on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 12:00-1:30pm. Participants will review some findings related to reproducibility scientific research and then discuss in small groups and as a large group the challenges associated with enhancing reproducibility. […]

Pratt Pickleball

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Spring is here and it's time to get back out on the courts! No prior experience is necessary. We play to have fun! Space is limited to 12. RSVP by April 18th.

Duke Seminar in Neural Engineering: Hubert Lim

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With host Warren Grill. Location to be announced. The goal of Hubert Lim's lab is to push the development and translation of brain-machine interfaces from scientific concepts into clinical applications, with the close collaboration of clinicians and industry.