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Check out the latest media coverage of Duke engineering research and education.
Associated Press | July 1, 2020
NFL Awards 4 Projects in Helmet Safety Development Program
Featuring Barry Myers
Four organizations have been awarded a total of $1.37 million by the NFL to support the creation of their helmet prototypes through the NFL Helmet Challenge, independent Oversight Committee is chaired by BME Professor Barry Myers.
IEEE Spectrum | June 29, 2020
Making Blurry Faces Photorealistic Goes Only So Far
Featuring Cynthia Rudin
ECE Professor Cynthia Rudin discovers inherent resolution limits to the 'upsampling' of pixelated faces
IEEE Spectrum | June 26, 2020
Future Baggage Scanners Will Tell Us What Things Are Made Of
Featuring Joel Greenberg, Michael Gehm
ECE Professors Joel Greenberg and Michael Gehm talk about the x-ray diffraction baggage scanning technology they are developing.
ABC 11 | June 23, 2020
Duke Research Study that Tracks COVID-19 Via Smartphones, Smartwatches Goes Global
Featuring Jessilyn Dunn
Interesting Engineering | June 22, 2020
Duke University Engineers Build the World's Fastest Electric Monowheel
Featuring Anuj Thakkar
A team of graduating engineering seniors has spent the last 15 months building and testing the world's fastest electric monowheel.
Science News | June 22, 2020
To Live up to the Hype, Quantum Computers Must Repair Their Error Problems
Featuring Ken Brown
ECE Professor Ken Brown says that trying to stop quantum computers from gathering errors is like "fighting erosion."
The Washington Post | June 18, 2020
We Need Smart Solutions to Mitigate the Coronavirus’s Impact. Here Are 46.
Featuring Cynthia Rudin
ECE Professor Cynthia Rudin argues that, in the wake of two high-profile paper retractions because of issues with the studies' raw data, we must make non-identifiable patient data freely accessible.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory | June 5, 2020
ORNL Spectrometry Research Advances Race Toward Safer Rechargeable Batteries
Featuring Olivier Delaire
MEMS Professor Olivier Delaire helps shed new light on the atomic dynamics of how silver chromium selenide, part of a class of materials known as superionic conductors, continues to conduct heat even at temperatures that partially dissolve the interior crystal structure while the outer structure remains intact.
The Washington Post | May 29, 2020
Wearable Tech Can Spot Coronavirus Symptoms Before You Even Realize You’re Sick
Featuring Jessilyn Dunn
In a feature detailing several studies looking to see if wearable fitness trackers can spot COVID-19 infections, BME Professor Jessiliyn Dunn talks about one such study underway at Duke and how previous work has shown that all smartwatches her laboratory has tested can provide usable data that does not differ greatly depending on skin tone.
The Conversation | May 29, 2020
Gold Rush, Mercury Legacy
Featuring PhD student Austin Wadle (Hsu-Kim lab)