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| Duke Engineering

Watching Primordial Neural Cells Grow in 3D Scaffolds to Heal Brain Injury

Tracking how neural progenitor cells respond to biochemical signals while moving and growing through a biocompatible jungle gym could help develop brain-healing

| Duke Engineering

Upside-Down Design Expands Wide-Spectrum Super-Camera Abilities

New design for plasmonic metasurfaces increases their frequency range while protecting them from the elements

Duke professor Henry Everitt and then MIT graduate student Fan Wang with the first version of a tunable terahertz laser.

| Trinity College Communications

How an Undergraduate Project from the Early 1980s Is Helping Revolutionize Lasers Today

No bigger than a shoebox, Henry Everitt's groundbreaking device is a widely tunable terahertz laser.

Cynthia Toth, left, and Joe Izatt of Duke University

| Duke Eye Center

Physician-Engineer Collaborators Talk Team Science at Major Ophthalmic Conference

Duke Opthalmologist Cynthia Toth and Biomedical Engineer Joseph Izatt told the ARVO 2022 audience about how their 20 years of intense teamwork across multiple disciplines has positively impacted ophthalmic research

| Duke Engineering

K-12 Outreach: Let There Be LITE

The Light, Infrared and Thermal Energy workshop by Po-Chun Hsu’s lab group engaged local high school students in optics, photonics and materials science

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| Optica

Duke BME's Joseph A. Izatt Receives Optica's 2022 Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award

Izatt was honored for over 25 years of outstanding service to the optics community and Optica.

Guillermo Sapiro

| Duke Engineering

Duke’s Guillermo Sapiro Elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering

The professor of electrical and computer engineering was recognized for three decades of transformative contributions to the theory and practice of imaging

| Duke Engineering

Hsu Wins NSF CAREER Award to Develop Energy-Saving Wearable Device

Competitive five-year grant will help Po-Chun Hsu develop new wearable technology to manage heat around the human body without using additional power supply

| Duke Engineering

Gene Expression Could Ring Early Kidney Disease Alarm

Stem cell model helps researchers identify potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets for early kidney disease

| Duke Engineering

Yao Receives NSF CAREER Award to Monitor the Brain Using Photoacoustic Imaging

Competitive five-year grant will help Junjie Yao develop new imaging technologies to explore how oxygen consumption influences brain function

A man and a woman working at a microscope

| SPIE

Vo-Dinh Wins 2022 SPIE President’s Award

Award presented to an individual who has rendered a unique and meritorious service of outstanding benefit to the Society

3D orange triangular pyramids with purple squiggles in between

| Duke Engineering

Molecular Paddlewheels Propel Sodium Ions Through Next-Generation Batteries

Insights into the atomistic dynamics of emerging solid-state batteries will help speed their evolution

| Duke Engineering

Innovative Textile Vents to Release Heat When You Sweat

Moisture opens the vents, rather than electronics

| Duke Engineering

Randles Elected to National Academy of Inventors

Amanda Randles was recognized for her work to model how blood, particles and cells travel throughout the circulatory system

| Duke Engineering

Eye Imaging Technology Breaks Through Skin by Crossing Beams

New approach to optical coherence tomography increases its depth of view in biological tissues