Duke University

By dahill About Duke University: Duke University is a private research and liberal arts university located in Durham, NC. Younger than most other prestigious U.S. research universities, Duke University consistently ranks among the very best. Its graduate and professional schools — in business,

By rfmerritt DURHAM, N.C. – By coupling a kicked-up version of microscopy with miniscule particles of gold, Duke University scientists are now able to peer so deep into living tissue that they can see molecules interacting. The results of the Duke research were posted on line by Nano Letters, a journal p...

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 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 jm117 He is an active member of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), serving on CED’s board of directors and executive committee. He serves on the board of the Florida Venture Forum and the Atlanta Venture Forum, and he has co-chaired the AeA Venture Forum. He also serves on the adv...

By dahill Durham, NC — A man identified as a Duke University graduate student was found shot to death at an apartment complex in the 1600 block of Anderson Street, several blocks south of the Duke campus, at about 11:30 p.m. Friday. Mahato, originally from Tatangar, India, was studying for an engineer...

By Kendall Morgan Cummer and David Schurig, a former research associate at Duke who is now at North Carolina State University, later reported in The New Journal of Physics a theory showing that an acoustic cloak could be built. But that theory relied on a “special equivalence” between electromagnetic and...

By dahill The residence hall and research laboratory is the centerpiece of a much larger program in which more than 100 students are conducting research on smart living. Primarily focused on undergraduates, the program encourages students from different academic disciplines to form teams and...

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...