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Check out the latest media coverage of Duke engineering research and education.
Advanced Science News | July 20, 2018
Overcoming a Sticking Point for Bone Healing
Featuring Ken Gall
Ken Gall teams up with LaunchPad Medical to test their bone glue inspired by sandcastle worms on bones and other biomedical device materials in benchtop studies.
News and Observer | July 17, 2018
Have Duke Students Created World's Most Efficient Vehicle? They're Hoping for Guinness Record.
Featuring Nico Hotz
Nico Hotz and a group of Duke students used a prototype hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle to attempt to break the Guinness record for "world's most fuel-efficient."
Spectrum | July 12, 2018
Can a Computer Diagnose Autism?
Featuring Guillermo Sapiro
Guillermo Sapiro is one of a handful of researchers worldwide looking to gain more insights into and opportunities to spot early warning signs of autism through machine learning.
The News & Observer | July 9, 2018
You're Not a Fraud. This Summer Program Aims to Keep Women in Tech
Featuring Monica Jenkins
Now in it's third year, Duke's DTech Scholars Program supports women in ECE and computer science through their college years.
Quartz | July 2, 2018
Physics Can Explain Human Innovation and Enlightenment
Featuring Adrian Bejan
Adrian Bejan argues that human movement and social constructs are described by flow in nature—just as rivers and trees branch in predictable patterns based on pressures, so do people's minds, our organizations, and whole societies.
PNAS | June 27, 2018
Inner Workings: The Race to Patch the Human Heart
Featuring Nenad Bursac
Nenad Bursac is one of many researchers across the country working to repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack through laboratory grown heart patches.
Financial Express | June 4, 2018
iPhone App Effective for Screening Toddlers with Autism, Says Study
Featuring Guillermo Sapiro
An iPhone app has shown to be effective and easy to use for screening young children with signs of autism, paving the way to broader, easier access to screening other neurodevelopmental disorders, according to Guillermo Sapiro.
WNYC Science Friday | June 4, 2018
How Seafaring Scientists Are Mapping The Deep
Featuring Martin Brooke
Martin Brooke goes on WNYC's Science Friday to talk about Blue Devil Ocean Engineering - a group of students competing in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE.
Autoliv | May 24, 2018
Autoliv Board Approves Completion Spin-off
Featuring Missy Cummings
Autoliv, a worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, announced that Mary "Missy" Cummings will join the board of electronics segment spin-off company Veoneer,
Medical News Today | May 23, 2018
Novel Gel Regrows Brain Tissue After Stroke
Featuring Tatiana Segura
Tatiana Segura creates a biogel that acts as a scaffolding for fresh neuronal and vascular growth in cavities caused by acute strokes.