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November 15, 2022 | Duke Engineering Magazine
Detecting How COVID-19 Can Directly Infect and Damage Human Kidney Cells
A fortuitous collaboration between Duke BME’s Samira Musah and the Duke Human Vaccine Institute’s Maria Blasi helps illuminate why the virus is so adept at attacking kidney cells

October 19, 2022 | Duke Engineering News
Light Painting Presents a New Route for Expression
A photography workshop at Duke Engineering showed the community how to combine quirky light sources and long exposures to achieve otherworldly effects

October 12, 2022 | Duke University School of Medicine
An Engineer at Heart: Cynthia Toth's 25 years of revolutionizing eye care and surgery
When Toth joined the Duke faculty in 1993, she found the perfect setting to develop OCT to improve patient care.

October 10, 2022 | Duke Engineering News
Smartwatches Can Help Guide COVID-19 Testing
Data from smartwatches can help identify people with likely COVID-19 infections, enabling physicians to catch more cases with fewer tests

September 13, 2022 | Duke Today
Adrienne Stiff-Roberts Named Presidential Fellow for 2022-23 Academic Year
The Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke will participate in strategic and operational discussions across the university

September 13, 2022 | Duke Engineering News
Nanorattles Shake Up New Possibilities for Disease Detection
New nanoparticle shape can greatly enhance signals from multiple separate biomarkers at once, accurately detecting head and neck cancers without biopsies to improve global health

August 29, 2022 | Georgia Tech
Duke's Steve Cummer is Studying the Gigantic Jet Phenomenon
The gigantic jet in the study carried 100 times as much electrical charge as a typical bolt of thunderstorm lightning.

August 29, 2022 | Duke Engineering News
Microbial Communities Stay Healthy By Swapping Knowledge
High levels of horizontal gene transfer could help researchers engineer useful microbiomes independent of unstable population dynamics

August 23, 2022 | Duke Today
Meet the Winners of the 2022 DST Launch Seed Grant
Grants winners represent the strength of Duke's scientific research and potential for making significant contributions to region and nation.

July 21, 2022 | Duke Goverment Relations
5 Questions for Duke’s 'Super Star' Cosmologists
Michael Troxel and Dan Scolnic Discuss Their Research and the First Captures from the James Webb Space Telescope