Senior Spotlight: Emma Maddock

When Emma Maddock first started as a biomedical engineering student at Duke, she thought she’d want to explore how to design prosthetic devices. But after taking courses in the BME wet labs, she decided to change course.

“We got to do some really cool stuff like making frog hearts beat and testing the electrical impulses in their legs,” she said. “We also got to test properties of different hydrogels. It showed me that the possibilities of this work were really endless.”

Maddock put these skills to good use in her senior design project, which involved altering honey bee cell lines to make them pesticide resistant. Although she’ll be graduating in May, that doesn’t mean she’ll be done at Duke––Maddock will also be completing a Master’s of Engineering Management degree through Duke’s 4+1 program.