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Learning to Fail Upward, on Land and Sea
10/25 Pratt School of Engineering

Learning to Fail Upward, on Land and Sea

Seniors in Duke's hands-on mechanical engineering capstone built an entry for the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race, an annual event with roots dating to the 1960s.

Seeing Duke in a Whole New Color
10/23 Pratt School of Engineering

Seeing Duke in a Whole New Color

New program allows color blind Duke personnel to borrow EnChroma color enhancing glasses from the library for up to a week at a time

Listening Skills Bring Human-Like Touch to Robots
10/22 Pratt School of Engineering

Listening Skills Bring Human-Like Touch to Robots

Researchers give robots a sense of touch by “listening” to vibrations, allowing them to identify materials, understand shapes and recognize objects just like human hands

Faculty on Social Media: Friend or Foe?
10/15 Pratt School of Engineering

Faculty on Social Media: Friend or Foe?

Examining the advantages and drawbacks of pursuing social media accounts as a researcher.

The Increasingly Inescapable Need to Integrate Ethics
10/15 Pratt School of Engineering

The Increasingly Inescapable Need to Integrate Ethics

Engineers are facing more ethical dilemmas in their professional lives than ever before. Students need to be taught how to handle them

A Genomic Medicine Story (with only a little CRISPR)
10/15 Pratt School of Engineering

A Genomic Medicine Story (with only a little CRISPR)

While the Nobel-winning genome-editing technology CRISPR holds great promise, Duke’s Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies is putting some eggs in other baskets.