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By rfmerritt Taking into account the effects of this phenomenon should greatly enhance the future efficiency of synthetic circuits, said biomedical engineer Lingchong You of Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy.

By rfmerritt Biomedical engineers in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering have already designed a prototype of the device that can “read” the genomic signatures of infection. Collaborators in the project include researchers at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Virginia, and the Natio...

By rfmerritt Protein-based drugs are an increasingly important new class of drugs, said Ashutosh Chilkoti, Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. He cited such examples as insulin for the treatment of diabetes and more exotic “magic bullet” an...

By dahill A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 A.M. today (Monday) at Christ the King Catholic Church presided over by Rev. Msgr. Donald F. Zimmerman. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Park. In his memory, the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University has established the...

 NC Honored Kayla DeWald, a Central Davidson junior in the system's Pre-Engineering Academy, for receiving The Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University High School Engineering Award of Excellence. The academy, which is part of Project Lead the Way ...

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 TN Prior to that, Johnson served as the Dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering from 1999-2007 where she helped to set up interdisciplinary efforts in photonics, bioengineering and biologically inspired materials, and energy and the ...

 United States Johnson, an electrical engineer, is Johns Hopkins University's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs and previously was dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. Koonin, an award-winning physicist and BP chief scientist, ...

 NC Advanced Liquid Logic's technology was developed by company co-founders Vamsee Pamula and Michael Pollack while they were graduate students at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. They founded the company in 2004.

Bycoff also currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Aveksa, a leading provider of Enterprise Access Governance software and on the Board of Visitors at Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Day's second nominee to its Board of Directors, ...

 NC By Duke University News, Press Release, 1 hour, Duke University's School of Medicine, School of Law, Fuqua School of Business and Pratt School of Engineering all rank among the top institutions in their disciplines, according to the ...

Duke University Pratt School of Engineering is mapping education to the modern student, giving today's workers the flexibility to complete degree programs via Mediasite, the leading platform for distance education and online learning," said Rimas ...

 South Africa They include the following articles: By Vivek Wadhwa, an executive in residence for the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and a senior research associate in the labour and work-life programme at Harvard Law School. ...

 NY Vivek Wadhwa is an Executive in Residence at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and a Senior Research Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. A former tech entrepreneur, his research has been supported by the ...

By rfmerritt Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering commissioned the survey, “Americans’ Attitudes Toward Engineering and Engineering Challenges,” for a national summit on engineering “grand challenges” it is co-hosting March 2-3 in Durham.

By rfmerritt The researcher, Adrian Bejan, J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, argues that while the trend at major universities is the creation of large research groups focused on a particular problem, the individual researcher will not disappea...

By dahill DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering challenges college students in the U.S. to create a video and an essay in response to this question: Which of the 14 grand challenges identified by the National Academy of Engineering would you choose to address, and how would you d...

By rfmerritt Thanks to the donation of a graduate of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, four North Carolina high school students will receive $1,000 which they can use for tuition at whatever college or university they plan to attend.

By rfmerritt However, a theory developed by Adrian Bejan, J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering and colleague Sylvie Lorente, professor of civil engineering at the University of Toulouse, France, explains how these disparate forces can co-exist wit...

By dahill “Every mobile phone can act as a telescope lens providing real-time information about its environment to any of the 3 billion mobile phones worldwide,” said Romit Roy Choudhury, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering.

By rfmerritt Though the technology is still in its infancy, a new approach to controlling seizures championed by five Duke University graduate students – four from the Pratt School of Engineering and one from the Fuqua School of Business – may address this medical problem by harnessing the unique ab...

By ahr The Pratt School of Engineering Student Service Award – Werapong Goo and Leslie Michelle Voorhees. (Given to the graduating seniors who, by their contributions of time, effort and spirit, have significantly benefited the community of the Pratt School of Engineering.)

By dahill DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering has received a gift of $5 million from an anonymous donor to establish a new undergraduate curriculum that will encourage students to think critically about problems that lack obvious solutions, like those they will encounte...

By rfmerritt “To our knowledge, this is the first time that real time 3-D ultrasound provided clear images of the major arteries within the brain,” said Nikolas Ivancevich, graduate student in Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering and first author of the paper. “Also for the first time, we have been able...

By dahill Roberts, a junior from Melville, N.Y., is a student in the Pratt School of Engineering majoring in electrical and computer engineering and in physics. He conducts research in the laboratory of David Smith, Augustine Scholar and associate professor in the Pratt School of

By dahill DURHAM, N.C. -– Duke University has selected Thomas Katsouleas, professor of electrical engineering and electrophysics at the University of Southern California and the school’s former vice provost for information services, as the new dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke Pro...

By dahill President Open forum to be held Jan. 23 in CIEMAS Monday, January 21, 2008 Dear Member of the Duke University Community, I write to share my great sadness over the sudden and senseless death of Abhijit Mahato, a graduate student in the Pratt School of Engineering, who was murdered in his off...

By dahill Saturday, January 19, 2008 (Updated 3 p.m. Jan. 19) Mahato, originally from Tatangar, India, was studying for an engineering doctorate degree focused on computational mechanics at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. He was in his second year.

By Kendall Morgan Biomedical engineers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have captured three-dimensional images revealing microscopic changes to the inner workings of cells that occur at the earliest stages of cancer, suggesting a possible new way of disease detection.  

By ahr Duke University’s new Home Depot Smart Home, a high-tech dorm and research laboratory, was officially opened Nov. 9 by the university president, the current and former deans of the Pratt School of Engineering, and some of the 10 students who will live there.

By Kendall Morgan Adrian Bejan, J.A. Jones professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, and Sylvie Lorente, professor of civil engineering at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Toulouse, France, will receive the James P. Hartnett Award at the ASME Int...

By Kendall Morgan Watch a video of 3-micron beads as they are magnetically separated from 1-micron beads using a new technique developed by researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and Purdue University. A magnetic separation technique developed by researchers at Duke University...

By ahr Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. Duke President Richard H. Brodhead praised Johnson for her contributions at Duke.  - -

By Kendall Morgan Researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have uncovered a missing link in scientists’ understanding of the physical forces that give DNA its famous double helix shape. “The stability of DNA is so fundamental to life that it’s important to understand all factors,” s...