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STEM has Style
10/10/23 Pratt School of Engineering

STEM has Style

STEM educators and fashion entrepreneurs team up to change perceptions of computing and engineering through ‘TechArts and Crafts’ workshops

P. Lee Ferguson of Duke University
The Next Frontier in Forever Chemicals: Environmental Implications of Clean Energy
10/9/23 Nicholas School of the Environment

The Next Frontier in Forever Chemicals: Environmental Implications of Clean Energy

As the world endeavors to extricate itself from a carbon economy in favor of clean energy, Lee Ferguson is working to shed light on the potential environmental risks posed by bis-perfluoroalkyl sulfonimides, a primary electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries

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Duke ECE Professor Joins NSF-funded Visioning Group
10/5/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Duke ECE Professor Joins NSF-funded Visioning Group

Jeffrey Glass will collaborate with leaders in academia, industry, governmental and non-profit groups to develop bold new paths for the field of engineering

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Sampling from the Middle
9/28/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Sampling from the Middle

CEE PhD student Shannon Plunkett finds the most valuable tool in designing mercury studies in the Amazon to be a long-held—and expanding—Duke network

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Scientists Funded to Teach Computers How to Develop Solar Materials
9/25/23 University of Colorado Boulder

Scientists Funded to Teach Computers How to Develop Solar Materials

David Mitzi joins a collaboration to accelerate the discovery of the structure-property relationships that underpin the hybrid organic inorganic structures of metal-halide perovskites