In this year's U.S. News and World Report graduate school rankings, our Mechanical Engineering program hit a record high at #20, while our Materials Science program remained in the top 25 for the second year running. Discover why these programs continue to gain steam.

Too big to enter a cancer cell? No problem. Learn how researchers in Tony Jun Huang's lab used ultrasound and microbubbles to deliver relatively large drugs to cancer cells.

Translation from benchtop to products is never easy. Yet fundamental research in Pei Zhong's lab has informed real-world kidney stone treatment over multiple decades. Discover how.

Take a peek at Adrian Bejan's newest book about how the natural laws of physics give rise to diversity in nature.  

Check out a new undergradute class that teaches engineering students how artificial intelligence is transforming the way products are designed, built and delivered.

Hear how Siobhan Oca designs collaborative courses that build confidence, creativity and real-world engineering skills.

Learn how this graduating senior spent four years in Duke’s ROTC program gaining hands-on design experience and honing interdisciplinary skills. 

Explore the vibrant NC SciFest event hosted by Duke Engineering that welcomed hundreds of local families for a day of lively demos, hands-on experiments and fun-filled learning.

Meet Avihain Jain—the inventor of a language-teaching teddy bear—and other students empowered by the Melissa and Doug Entrepreneurs program to develop impactful startups.

Attention alumni! Did you:

Please nominate that course instructor for our new Transformative Teaching Award to recognize faculty who teach the classes that most benefit our students in the years after they graduate.  

Nominations should consist of ~100 words explaining what you are doing now and how that specific class has helped you.  

Please email nominations to Director of Undergraduate Studies Assistant Amy Spaulding (amy.spaulding@duke.edu).

Deadline: June 30, 2026 

Watch how MEMS master's students engineered an autonomous chess-playing robot that can see the board, strategize its moves and pick up the pieces on its own.

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“From fundamental research we gain new knowledge… and from that, we can improve clinical tools to make treatments safer and more efficient for millions of patients worldwide.”

—PEI ZHONG,

MEMS Professor, on his decades of kidney stone research 

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