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July 27, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Setting Boundaries Helps Machine Learning Find One-in-a-Trillion Solutions
New “neural-adjoint” machine learning method can help researchers find optimal solutions in extremely large design spaces such as dielectric metamaterials for communications

July 26, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Catching Waves
Duke ECE’s Steven Cummer, the William H. Younger Distinguished Professor of Engineering, discusses new metamaterials research in this Q&A– and explains why invisibility paint is not on the horizon

June 08, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
X-ray Scanner Spots Cancers and Analyzes Drugs in Minutes
New technology could speed cancer diagnosis, ensure surgeons remove 100% of a tumor and inspect drugs for dangerous chemicals

June 08, 2021 | Duke Today
$100 Million to Advance Duke Science and Technology Research
The Duke Endowment of Charlotte, N.C., is supporting Duke University’s efforts to expand its faculty in computation, materials science and the resilience of the body and brain by completing the second phase of a $100 million investment. This is the largest award Duke University has ever received.

March 10, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Capturing All of Light’s Data in One Snapshot
Duke engineers to lead $7.5 million Department of Defense project to create a “super camera” that can capture and process a wide range of light’s properties

March 09, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Duke Technology Powers First Pure-Play Quantum Computing Company to Wall Street
With a market capitalization valued around $2 billion, IonQ will become the first publicly traded company focused solely on quantum computing

January 26, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Listening to Lightning in the Duke Forest
ECE professor Steve Cummer's field of antennas relays information about when and where lightning strikes

January 06, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Cybersecurity for Autonomous Systems
Miroslav Pajic works on 'assured autonomy' for systems with high-level autonomy and low human control and oversight

January 05, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Payne Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
MEMS Associate Professor Christine Payne recognized for outstanding contributions to chemistry with research on interaction between materials and cells

December 18, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Sound Waves Spin Droplets to Concentrate, Separate Nanoparticles
New centrifuge-like device concentrates and separates biomedically important nanoparticles in tiny samples in less than a minute