On most days, I pass through Duke’s Fitzpatrick Building between CT scans. Its hallways can be quiet enough to hear someone coming up the stairs. During the 100 Years of Innovation: Duke Graduate Research Fair, I heard voices before I reached the third floor. A Comic Page in a Building Full of Stories Research had…
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A Week of Science in Berlin
From barnacles and biofouling communities to emerging coatings and corrosion, ICMCF was a week spent looking closely at what happens when life meets a surface. Berlin offered plenty to notice along the way, with towering architecture, colorful bears scattered throughout the city, schnitzel on the table, and countless little details in between. A Long Way…
X-Ray Superpowers for 3MT
If you could have one superpower, what would it be? For Duke’s Three Minute Thesis competition, I chose X ray vision. Not the kind that sees through walls, but the kind that lets me look inside a barnacle without breaking it open. With microcomputed tomography, I can see the tiny structures it builds beneath its…