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Modern flush toilets waste a gallon and a half of treated, potable water every time you flush. The Duke Center for WaSH-AID is working on ways to get rid of waste more efficiently.

Stefano Curtarolo

Former CEE PhD student Sarah Diringer writes about how working with Bass Connections and the Duke Global Health Institute teams helped her see water as part of an intricate web of people and the environment. 

ECE Professor Maria Gorlatova has developed a set of "virtual eyes" that can help train metaverse platforms to respond to users' eye movements.

ECE Professor Jungsang Kim talks about a new way to compare the performance of quantum computers operating with different underlying technologies.

ECE Adrienne Stiff-Roberts adds personal insights into an exploration of the struggles Black physicists face in bringing more Black students into the field, and why diversity advocates agree that lasting change won’t happen until the existing dominant white male culture becomes fully engaged in finding solutions.

BME Professor Lingchong You has shown that it's not just leftovers that make dish sponges breeding grounds for bacterial cultures—the structure of the sponge itself plays a role.

IonQ quantum computing, co-founded by Duke ECE Professors Jungsang Kim and Chris Monroe, and Hyundai Motor Company recently announced a partnership focused on using quantum computing to study lithium compounds and battery chemistry.

Jessilyn Dunn

Samira Musah

Duke BME Professor Adam Wax has developed a new dual-axis optical coherence tomography (DA-OCT) system that increases the imaging depth by almost 50% compared with conventional OCT.

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.