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Duke Team Builds an Award-winning Surgical Simulator
5/21 Duke University School of Medicine

Duke Team Builds an Award-winning Surgical Simulator

MEMS PhD student Kent Yamamoto was part of a team that won first place at the American College of Surgeons 2025 Surgeons and Engineers Meeting for their life-size inguinal hernia simulator.

A Tool That Helps Predict a Brain-Damaging Seizure
5/20 Pratt School of Engineering

A Tool That Helps Predict a Brain-Damaging Seizure

A team led by Cynthia Rudin created the tool with artificial intelligence. The simple scorecard, used in hospitals everywhere, saves lives.

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Big AI for Small Devices at the Inaugural Athena Summit
5/15 Pratt School of Engineering

Big AI for Small Devices at the Inaugural Athena Summit

The NSF- and DHS-funded institute attracted visitors from industry and government to showcase Duke’s leadership in artificial intelligence and edge computing.

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What’s Owed to an Overture?
5/15 Pratt School of Engineering

What’s Owed to an Overture?

Duke Civil & Environmental Engineering alumni look back on lessons learned from their uniquely structured senior capstone class.

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Senior Spotlight: Emma Maddock
5/12 Pratt School of Engineering

Senior Spotlight: Emma Maddock

When Emma Maddock first started as a biomedical engineering student at Duke, she thought she'd want to explore how to design prosthetic devices. But after taking courses in the BME wet labs, she decided to change course.