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Equipping Graduate Students to Tackle Emerging Challenges
6/16 Duke Office of Interdisciplinary Studies

Equipping Graduate Students to Tackle Emerging Challenges

Duke Engineering faculty are involved in three new interdisciplinary graduate education collaboratives focused on society-centered AI, advanced climate training, and information science and engineering for the public sector.

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For Securing the Nation’s Energy Supply, North Carolina Is Critical
6/12 Duke Office of Interdisciplinary Studies

For Securing the Nation’s Energy Supply, North Carolina Is Critical

The Symposium on Critical Resources, Minerals, and Materials Joint Efforts showed the research Duke Engineering faculty are conducting on critical minerals like lithium.

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New Hubs Represent “Big Bets” on Interdisciplinarity at Duke
6/5 Duke Office of Interdisciplinary Studies

New Hubs Represent “Big Bets” on Interdisciplinarity at Duke

Leanne Gilbertson is leading the new "Duke Critical Minerals Hub" to examine their full life cycle from extraction and mining to processing, use and reuse.

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Drones, Data and Discovery: Mapping Change in Antarctica
6/5 Duke Office of Interdisciplinary Studies

Drones, Data and Discovery: Mapping Change in Antarctica

Duke engineering students join an interdisciplinary Bass Connections team diving deep into a vast wealth of visual data of Antarctica collected by drones.

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What’s Owed to an Overture?
5/15 Pratt School of Engineering

What’s Owed to an Overture?

Duke Civil & Environmental Engineering alumni look back on lessons learned from their uniquely structured senior capstone class.

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Reprogramming First-Year Computing
5/9 Pratt School of Engineering

Reprogramming First-Year Computing

Genevieve Lipp is reimagining the way coding is taught by focusing on process.

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Predicting the Rise of Ghost Forests in Eastern North Carolina
5/9 Pratt School of Engineering

Predicting the Rise of Ghost Forests in Eastern North Carolina

A Climate+ project built a data mining algorithm capable of connecting satellite imagery data to levels of salinity in coastal rivers, which could help communities prepare for the effects of climate change.

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Tenting is Better with Engineers
5/9 Pratt School of Engineering

Tenting is Better with Engineers

An inside look at one engineering student’s journey tenting in Duke’s famous K-ville over four years.