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MEMS Professor Matthew Becker and colleagues have found a way to use organic compounds derived from sugar to make a new family of eco-friendly polymers. 

ECE/CS Professor Cynthia Rudin is mentioned in an article detailing how several entrepreneurs and companies are working to make AI more ethical and just.

ECE Professor Natalia Litchinitser explains what a metasurface is and how it is helping to make tiny cameras the size of a crumb.

A News & Views column in Nature Physics explains how new research from ECE Professor Iman Marvian shows that quantum systems whose interactions are constrained by symmetries can't be broken down as a simple summation of the local operations among its components.

MEMS Professor Nico Hotz offers insights into how hydrogen might become a part of the green energy needs of the future.

MEMS Professor Po-Chun Hsu produced prototype patches with miniature vented flaps. When applied to your clothing, the vents curl open to release heat if you get too hot and start producing sweat. 

ECE Professor Yiran Chen has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) method that can accurately predict the power consumption of any type of computer processor.

BME Professor Amanda Randles talks about her passion, which lies in using the largest supercomputers in the world to answer questions otherwise left unanswered, and her Duke research group’s focus on building large scale personalized blood flow simulations.

BME Professor Ashutosh Chilkoti develops a test that could potentially tell doctors how protected a patient is from new variants of COVID-19 and those currently circulating in a community

Biomedical startup veterens Matt Kane and Charles Gersbach have launched a new venture called Tune Therapeutics, which will focus on “epigenetics” and attempt to create new therapies for cancers and genetic diseases.

MEMS Professor Adrian Bejan explains why he think it is that objects that adhere to the golden ratio are perceived as beautiful. 

CEE Professor Nate Chaney demonstrates that incorporating small-scale land features into weather and climate models can help them perform better.