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Henri P. Gavin of Duke University

| Duke Engineering

Gavin Named Chair of Duke CEE

Henri P. Gavin, an internationally regarded expert in earthquake hazard mitigation and nonlinear dynamics, will lead Duke CEE through 2024
First-year engineering students Rania Challita, Ahnaf Hossain, Liam Byrne, Ashley Huang, with their prototype at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

| Nasher Museum of Art

Helping in a Pinch: Duke Engineering Students Design a Solution for The Nasher

Students in Duke Engineering's First-Year Design course prototype a chair storage rack for the Duke art museum that won't pinch fingers.
students are suspended above a gorge as they build a bridge to span it

| Duke Engineering

Duke Engineers for International Development (DEID) Returns, With a New Bridge in Bolivia

Duke engineering students built a pedestrian footbridge that provides a safe path to school for local children
Duke campus in summer with laurel leaves and star

| Duke Engineering

Celebrating Summer Award Season

Duke Engineering faculty and students garnered a wide array of awards and recognitions over the summer
NASA image of Hurricane Florence

| Duke Engineering

Hurricane Season

Hurricane season is here. Here’s what you should know about flooding, floodwater contaminants, and those baffling spaghetti models
A man's headshot in front of a stone wall (left) and a book cover for the book Force (right)

| Duke Engineering

Petroski Pens Book on Forces at Play in Everyday Life

Force: What it Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop is Petroski’s 20th book about science and engineering written for a general audience
Innoworks students work together to solve a problem during one of the daily lessons

| Duke Engineering

Expanding the STEM Pipeline’s Flow Rate in Durham

Students from Durham, NC, learn engineering fundamentals through two summer outreach programs at Duke
A. James Clark Scholars at Duke University

| A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation

Duke Welcomes Newest Clark Scholars from 8 US States, Australia and Ghana

Through tight-knit cohorts, the unique endowed program provides financial aid, dedicated advising, a summer bridge program, and opportunities for research and entrepreneurship.
A boy in a yellow shirt plays with colored blocks on a white table while a woman watches

| Duke Engineering

Duke Awarded $12M Research Grant to Use Artificial Intelligence to Detect Autism

Duke ECE and CEE faculty will use AI to identify and track behavioral characteristics associated with autism
Two headshots in front of a blue-scale image of a coast undergoing heavy wind and rain

| Duke Today

Plan Now for an Increase in Major Storms, Experts Say

CEE Professor Lee Ferguson helps brief media on hurricane preparation in NC