Season 4

Duke Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science professor Adrian Bejan escaped the Iron Curtain to pursue his dreams. Listen to discover how his freedom led him to formulate constructal theory, which connects physics to evolution through the freedom of change.

Transcript available at https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/podcast/inescapable-need-freedom

The Inescapable Need for Freedom

She’s an analyst. He’s an algebrist. She loves displays of unbridled creativity; he has journaled every day for thirty years. Between the two of them, Duke power couple Ingrid Daubechies and Robert Calderbank have changed the way society shares and processes information.

Transcript available at https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/podcast/resonance

Resonance

Today, researchers use a variety of imaging techniques to visualize and analyze biological systems, but there are limits to how much—and how well—these tools can see. But Duke BME’s Roarke Horstmeyer and his team are creating new microscopes and imaging algorithms to capture biomedical images at never-before-seen scales.

Transcript available at https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/podcast/multiplying-microscopes

Multiplying Microscopes

Duke CEE faculty member Andrew Jones investigates how and where bacterial communities thrive in the built environment—and imagines a future water smart grid that’s accessible to everyone.

Transcript available at https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/podcast/what-makes-happy-community

What Makes a Happy Community?

A podcast from Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, dedicated to the ingenious ways that engineers are solving society's toughest problems

What Makes a Happy Community?

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