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Finding the Right Fit
3/3 Duke Office of Translation and Commercialization

Finding the Right Fit

Inventive Duke students get crash course in commercializing their technologies with the Christensen Family Center for Innovation.

Explainer: Why Universities Need Support for Research Facilities and Administrative Costs
2/28 Duke Today

Explainer: Why Universities Need Support for Research Facilities and Administrative Costs

Without federal facilities and administrative reimbursement payments, university research on critical areas such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, infectious diseases and pediatric health would slow down or come to a complete halt. The same holds for applied sciences, such as the Duke Quantum Center (pictured) that promise innovations to strengthen the American economy.

Blake Wilson’s Efforts to Help People Hear
2/28 Duke Today

Blake Wilson’s Efforts to Help People Hear

Learn how federal funding helped Duke Engineering graduate and professor revolutionize a device that has restored hearing for millions.

A Research Ecosystem to Tackle Plastic Pollution
2/28 Duke Bass Connections

A Research Ecosystem to Tackle Plastic Pollution

A Bass Connections team including BME PhD student Sophia Vincoff works to engineer bacteria that can degrade plastics in the ocean.

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A New Approach to Controlling Gene Expression in Microbial Populations
2/26 Duke Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology

A New Approach to Controlling Gene Expression in Microbial Populations

Researchers led by Lingchong You have developed a system to better regulate gene expression that could be applied to biosensors, toxin production and metabolic pathway regulation.

Five Questions With Andrew Ross
2/24 Pratt School of Engineering

Five Questions With Andrew Ross

New Assistant Director of Human Resources Andrew Ross talks about his journey to Duke and how he's helping the Pratt School of Engineering grow into the future

Bringing the Quantum Realm to Middle School
2/20 Pratt School of Engineering

Bringing the Quantum Realm to Middle School

Emily Edwards is working to educate the public about the wonders of quantum information science through interactive games.

Duke engineering professor Michael Bergin (left) stands with Indian Institute of Technology-Gandhinagar colleague Chinmay Ghoroi (right) next to that university’s dusty solar panel array
Seed Funding Helps Duke Research Collaborations Flourish
2/20 Office of Interdisciplinary Studies

Seed Funding Helps Duke Research Collaborations Flourish

Seed funding from the Provost’s Collaboratories program helped Mike Bergin develop technologies, found startups and teach students around keeping solar panels clean from pollution