Research News

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 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
DST Launch Seed Grants 2022 logo

| Duke Today

Patient Wearables, Meds-by-Tattoo, Pollution Detection & Ag Tech Among 2022 Duke Science & Technology Seed Grants

This year’s DST Seed Grant winners represent the great potential for significant medical, engineering and scientific contributions to region and nation.
Two men and a woman gather around a computer screen and petri dishes in a laboratory

| Duke Engineering

Duke-led Center Seeks to Examine and Engineer the Microbial Communities of Indoor Spaces

New $26 million center will work to understand and engineer the microbiomes in our homes, workspaces and other built environments
Golden blazing sun in a cloudless sky

| Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G) Blog

Climate Engineering: Would Solar radiation Modification Increase or Decrease Overall Risk?

Duke risk engineers write that a consideration in deciding whether to pursue solar radiation modification to offset global warming should be a comparison of climate risk reduction against the severity of any countervailing risks
Becca Lau

| Duke Interdisciplinary Studies

Summer 2022: PhD student Rachel Lau to Study Landslides with JPL

One of 10 Graduate Student Training Enhancement Grants provided by Duke's provost has allowed Lau to take an internship with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A man in a suit and glasses standing in a laboratory

| Duke Engineering

Merging Policy and Technology for a Resilient Water System

New CEE faculty member Andrew Jones III is pursuing ways to remove tough biofilms and bring water equity to communities
Four small mice poking their heads through a hole in a loaf of bread

| Duke Today

Duke Scientists Find Brain Network That Makes Mice Mingle

A collection of coordinated brain regions predicts and directs social behavior
two women working in a science lab

| Duke Today

Duke Science and Technology is 'Accepting the Challenge'

The faculty recruitment and retention effort, called Duke Science and Technology, will give the university resources to expand core strengths in Duke’s research, extending to nearly every corner of the university.