JULY 2025

Formerly the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, Brown will partner with faculty to develop and teach modules in the Character Forward program, which integrates ethics and character development into technical education. Find out how his new role will be a boon to Duke students and faculty alike.

Duke’s long-time collaboration with the Gates Foundation to field test global sanitation solutions has led to the group publishing a field guide. Discover their trials and tribulations from disruptive rodents to curious children.

Duke’s AI for Understanding and Designing Materials (aiM) program cross-trains graduate students to use AI to accelerate materials discovery. Find out how it's allowing students and faculty to push the frontiers of the field.

Tingjun Chen recently secured an NSF CAREER award to turbocharge his research into sending analog radio waves across fiber-optic networks. Find out why the work could be transformational.

John Hickey recently won an NSF CAREER award to identify how and why cells in the same environment develop different characteristics. Check out how the work could improve cell therapies. 

Tired of dumping out water at airport security? See how x-ray diffraction technology developed at Duke Engineering could make that a thing of the past through a local startup’s recent string of successes.

Critical Minerals Hub

Leanne Gilbertson is leading a Duke-wide effort to build a resilient critical mineral system through a research culture that bridges schools and disciplines — and forges partnerships beyond academia.

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“It doesn’t just give you answers, it helps you think.”

—DR. PRAMOD SINGH

on co-founding an AI startup to assist researchers called Inquisite

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