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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.

Dr. Matthew Luedke, a neurologist at Duke, uses 2HELPS2B, an AI tool used in hospitals to quickly predict the likelihood of a person having a seizure.
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.

Yiran Chen, Jerry Lynch, Victor Bahl, Jilei Hou, and Charlie Zhang
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.