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What’s Owed to an Overture?
5/15/25 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
5/9/25 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
5/9/25 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
5/9/25 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.

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Senior Spotlight: Anya Dias-Hawkins
5/5/25 Pratt School of Engineering

Senior Spotlight: Anya Dias-Hawkins

From Bolivia to Eswatini and from newbie to co-president, follow Anya Dias-Hawkins’ 4-year journey with a student organization that allowed her discover what it truly means to be a civil engineer.

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A Turning Point
5/2/25 Duke Magazine

A Turning Point

Find out how Deb Liu's civil engineering degree from Duke helped her blossom into a technology executive with notable stops at Meta, eBay, PayPal and Ancestry.com.