AUGUST 2026

Duke Engineering hosted this summer’s NAE Regional Meeting focused on the challenges and opportunities facing the quickly evolving aviation industry. See some of the key takeaways and deep discussions from the incredible event.

Discover how a new data-driven approach featuring robotics and AI could enhance results for the quickly growing $130 billion probiotics and prebiotics industry.

Tapping into the immune system can help an injectable biomaterial transform the cavity left behind after a stroke into space ripe for repair. Find out how.

Over 1% of resumes have hidden messages meant to hijack AI. Read how efforts to identify these "prompt-injection" attacks is helping to combat the tactic.

Retinal blood vessels keep tight control of what gets in and what goes out of the eye. See how growing critical cells that line them could restore retinal function.

Longtime close collaborators Yiran Chen and Hai “Helen” Li took home five combined honors at this year’s Design Automation Conference. Discover how their work is pushing the boundaries of AI and machine learning.

Discover how Blake Wilson’s passion for signal processing earned him summer accolades of the Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology and the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

Emma Chory uses automated, robotic platforms to drive cellular evolution. Find out how her work earned a Beckman Young Investigator Award and a Hartwell Biomedical Research Award.

Read more about how Crystal Noel will use the prestigious early career award to explore thin-film lithium niobate to deliver light more efficiently in quantum computer systems.

Join Dean Jerry Lynch as he connects with three Duke University experts to explore why judgment and critical thinking are essential skills when deploying AI in high-stakes environments.

Meet Argus, a 20-legged, 20-eyed robot designed to navigate wilderness environments and explore other planets by embodying a new principle coined by Duke engineers called dynamic symmetry.

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“Our Systems Engineering master’s program provides our graduates with the skills and insights essential for the design and control of robust systems spanning across the physical, cyber and social domains.”

—DEAN JEROME LYNCH,

on Duke Engineering’s launch of a new
Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering program

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