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07/21/2026
Led by a partnership between Durham Public Schools and , the first annual Innovation for Humanity Expo invited 14 teams of students from four local middle schools to Duke University to compete in STEM-based activities connected to real-world issues.
“I believe our students left this experience with a different sense of what they are capable of,” said Darian Harris, director of career and technical education for Durham Public Schools. “Events like Innovation for Humanity expand what students believe is possible, and I think our students and teachers felt that.”
Learn more: https://pratt.duke.edu/news/innovation-for-humanity-event/
Duke engineers aren't built through coursework alone. They're also shaped by meaningful experiences outside the classroom, with support from organizations like the Duke University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Meet Ahmer Siddique, a Civil Engineering junior, as he shares how Duke ASCE embodies the tight-knit, fun-loving spirit that defines Duke CEE.
After a company spun out of a lab, one of its undergraduate researchers became its CTO.
Working alongside Duke University's Mike Bergin and Michael Valerino PhD '22, Alexandra Rivera BSE '23 helped develop a solution that enables solar farm operators to maximize energy production while minimizing maintenance costs.
Valerino co-founded Solar Unsoiled in 2022, and after graduation, Rivera stepped into the role of Chief Technology Officer.
Forever Duke
06/23/2026
Over half of Americans have used LLMs like ChatGPT and Google Gemini to spark creativity. Research published this spring from Duke University suggests these tools may actually narrow it.
“Commercial LLMs have all been trained on the same dataset—the entirety of the internet—and they all have the same goal,” shared Duke ECE's Emily Wenger. “It seemed likely to me that this would limit the amount of diversity we’d see in their creativity, so I decided to find out.”
https://pratt.duke.edu/news/ai-vs-human-creativity/
LLMs Are Different. LLMs Are the Same. | Commercial LLMs challenged with tests of originality and creativity generate results that are more similar to one another than people’s responses.
Meet Argus, a 20-legged, 20-eyed robot engineered to navigate wilderness environments and explore other planets by embodying a new design principle coined by Boyuan Chen's robotics lab as dynamic symmetry.
By moving its center of mass equally in all directions, Argus rolls over sand and up parallel walls, and continues to thrust its telescoping legs forward after one fails.
See Argus in action: https://pratt.duke.edu/news/argus-robot-design/
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