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Jessilyn Dunn Receives IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award

| Pratt School of Engineering

Jessilyn Dunn Receives IEEE EMBS Early Career Achievement Award

Dunn was recognized for her work to use wearable technologies

Inside Duke’s Plan for a Next-Gen Quantum Computer

| Pratt School of Engineering

Inside Duke’s Plan for a Next-Gen Quantum Computer

Team led by Duke Quantum Center advances toward designing a powerful 256-qubit quantum computer as part of a major NSF initiative for quantum technology.

The SPACE Initiative at Duke will foster strategic partnerships to pursue fundamental questions about the universe, pioneer innovations in space technology and policy, and educate the next generation of space researchers and policymakers. (Photo courtesy of NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)

| Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Launches SPACE Initiative

Two Duke Engineering faculty members are heavily involved in the new interdisciplinary initiative, with BME master's alumna Anna Menon set to deliver the keynote lecture at the launch event.

Gold Nanostars created by Canning, which uses a hollow gold shell to stabilize the arms of the ‘star’

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Light-and-Sound-Based Thermometer Helps Gold Nanoparticles Destroy Cancer

By combining high-res imaging tools with light-absorbing nanostars, researchers can more precisely treat cancerous tumors

Dr. Dan Scolnic

| Duke Today

Dan Scolnic Named Presidential Fellow

Dan Scolnic Named Presidential Fellow The program provides a faculty member a year-long opportunity to experience firsthand the workings of university administration

Dr. Michael Therien

| Duke, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Turning Light Into Energy, With Plant Leaves as a Guide

For more than three decades, his lab’s investigations in solar photochemistry — the study of the chemical effects of light -have been funded continually by the United States Department of Energy.

Brain image

| Pratt News

Light-Sensitive Molecule Allows Researchers to Visualize and Manipulate Cells in Deep Tissues

Increasing the presence of a naturally occurring molecule helps illuminate pathways for improving brain imaging and the efficiency of optogenetic tools

Perovskites show superfluorescence—quantum coherence from solitons—emerging at high temperatures. Image: Ella Maru Studios

| NC State University

Solitonic Superfluorescence Paves Way for High-Temperature Quantum Materials

Volker Blum helps a team of researchers gain fundamental insights into designing materials that allow exotic quantum states at high temperatures.

Junjie Yao poses in his lab

| Duke Engineering

Junjie Yao Receives 2025 Young Investigator Award from IC-UEBA

Yao was recognized for his research to advance photoacoustic imaging technologies

Dr. John Hickey Receives NSF CAREER Award

| Pratt News

Hickey Receives NSF CAREER Award to Study How Environmental Factors Drive Cellular Behavior

Competitive, five-year grant will help John Hickey identify how and why cells in the same environment develop different characteristics

U.S. Representative Valerie Foushee visits the Quadridox headquarters in Hillsborough, NC.

| Pratt News

Hate Airline Security Lines? A New Technology May Ease Your Pain

Duke Spinout Quadridox is developing new X-ray machinery for both airports and healthcare

Mitzi with an X-ray diffraction tool used to study the structure and quality of potential new materials for energy-related applications.

| Pratt News

David Mitzi wins Cherry Award

Mitzi was recognized for his significant contributions to the science and technology of photovoltaics, or the conversion of light energy into electricity.

A computational imaging system that borrows techniques from astronomy to reconstruct 4D videos of freely moving small model organisms, like zebrafish and fruit fly larvae.

| Pratt News

Astronomy Trick Enables Researchers to Capture High-Speed, 4D Videos of Moving Organisms

The imaging technique makes it easier to conduct behavioral studies of freely moving animals

Jessilyn Dunn with PhD student Brinnae Bent who is preparing to download information from a wearable health monitoring device.

| Pratt News

Medical Insights, Now Available on Your Wrist

Jessilyn Dunn gathers biometric data from smartwatches to study and predict health changes

A new cost-efficient and open-source technology could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of eye and brain diseases.

| Pratt School of Engineering News

AI-Integrated Imaging Reveals Retinal Cellular Structures with Precision and Speed

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a novel imaging system that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to visualize individual retinal cells better than more expensive technologies. This advance could greatly enhance modern medicine’s diagnostic and monitoring…