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Comp Sci + MedRen: An Interview with Leona Lu (Trinity College, class of 2023)
Friday, April 29 2022Leona Lu talks about her work on the Data+ project "Constructing Utopias in Restoration London.”
Bass Connections and Data+ Teams to Present at NeMLA (North East MLA conference) Undergraduate Research Forum
Thursday, January 6 2022The 2021 Bass Connections team for the Ethical Consumption Before Capitalism Project and representatives from the Data+ 2021 teams for the Constructing Utopias in Restoration London and Eth
Duke Professor Wins $1 Million Artificial Intelligence Prize, A ‘New Nobel’
Wednesday, October 13 2021Cynthia Rudin becomes second recipient of AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI.
The Godmother of the Digital Image
Wednesday, September 15 2021The mathematician Ingrid Daubechies’ pioneering work in signal processing helped make our electronic world possible — and beat a path for women in the field.
Data+ Team Takes Deep Dive into Duke Ph.D. Experience
Thursday, September 9 2021Look on the Graduate School website, and you will find more than 260 pages of program-specific statistics and infographics on admissions, enrollment, degree completion, and alumni career paths.
Yet that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Much more data still sit in spreadsheets, their insights shrouded by dense rows and columns.
The Numbers Don't Lie
Wednesday, February 17 2021Quantitatively and qualitatively, Data+ and its affiliated programs are big hits. How did a summertime data research effort become the toast of campus and potentially a new model for undergraduate experiential education?
Student Team Quantifies Housing Discrimination in Durham
Thursday, February 11 2021Omer Ali, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate with The Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity, is leading undergraduates Nicholas Datto and Pei Yi Zhuo in exploring the connection between persistent wealth disparities across racial lines through housing.
2021 Plus Program Information Fair Showcases Summer Projects in Data Science, Coding, and Computer Science
Monday, February 8 2021On Friday January 29, hundreds of undergraduate students from around the world signed into Zoom to explore the wide array of summer projects offered by Data+, Code+, and CS+ this summer.
Randles Named a 2020 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Engineering
Wednesday, November 18 2020Amanda Randles, the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University, has been named a 2020 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. She was one of 12 faculty selected to present their research in a special issue of the Nature journal Cellular and Molecular Engineering.
Duke to Lead $5 Million Center to Develop U.S. Air Force Wireless Communications Protocols
Thursday, October 22 2020Robert Calderbank, director of the Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke, and Vahid Tarokh will lead a national initiative to develop AI-informed communication and networking protocols fast and reliable enough to handle Air Force requirements