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A Summer of Adventure on Two Continents
This article is part of Summer Stories, a special, online issue of Dukengineer Magazine, in which students wrote about their experiences in the Summer of 2007 during their time away from Duke. by Varun Gokarn BME/ECON ‘09 This summer, I was blessed with the opportunity to travel and work in South Africa ...Researching Health and Human Rights in Accra, Ghana
This article is part of Summer Stories, a special, online issue of Dukengineer Magazine, in which students wrote about their experiences in the Summer of 2007 during their time away from Duke. by Stesha Doku, BME ‘08 Florence Okra did not have an office. Instead, her office was her home--an apartment in ...Research and Play in Dresden, Germany
This article is part of Summer Stories, a special, online issue of Dukengineer Magazine, in which students wrote about their experiences in the Summer of 2007 during their time away from Duke. by Rae Luan, BME ‘09 I had the opportunity to do a ten-week internship at the Vodafone Mobile Communications Chair, ...Orthopedic Medical Device Design at Kinamed, Inc.
This article is part of Summer Stories, a special, online issue of Dukengineer Magazine, in which students wrote about their experiences in the Summer of 2007 during their time away from Duke. by Michael Schaper, BME/ME ‘08 During the summer, I worked at Kinamed, Inc., an orthopedic medical device engineering firm in ...Moldy Human Cells, Water Pipes, 2-Watt Computers, and Concrete Machines: One Pratt Senior’s Summer Extravaganza
This article is part of Summer Stories, a special, online issue of Dukengineer Magazine, in which students wrote about their experiences in the Summer of 2007 during their time away from Duke. by Lee Pearson, BME/CEE ‘08 “Viva Peeeruuu!” the perfect stranger yelled to me with Pisco on his breath as he ...DukEngage Internship in New Orleans
This article is part of Summer Stories, a special, online issue of Dukengineer Magazine, in which students wrote about their experiences in the Summer of 2007 during their time away from Duke. by Kristen Bova, BME ‘08 After spending most of my second semester junior year going to information sessions, submitting resumes ...Pratt Fellow Garrett Wood Models Cervical Spine Muscles
This article is part of Summer Stories, a special, online issue of Dukengineer Magazine, in which students wrote about their experiences in the Summer of 2007 during their time away from Duke. by Garrett Wood, BME/ME’08 Every year, millions of serious injuries in the U.S. are caused by automobile crashes. Of ...Fixing Broken Hearts: Craig Silverman's Internship at Edwards Lifesciences
by Craig Silverman, BME ‘08 This summer I worked as a Manufacturing Engineer in the Peripheral Vascular Systems division of Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine, Calif. Edwards Lifesciences is the leader in treating advanced cardiovascular diseases and is the number-one heart valve company in the world. As a Manufacturing Engineer in the ...Pratt Fellow Wilusz Advances on a Solution to a Common Knee Injury
Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellow Rebecca Wilusz has made a discovery that could lead to changes in the way that physicians treat a common form of knee injury. Her studies in the lab of Professor Farshid Guilak suggest that anti-inflammatory medications might help to encourage tears of the knee cartilage, or ...Schoenleber, Pratt Fellow, Maps the Growing Human Skull
As children grow, their skulls grow with them. But physicians have lacked a good description of that developmental process, and a reliable way of recognizing early when something goes awry. Pratt Undergraduate Research Fellow John Schoenleber, a biomedical engineering major from Columbia, Mo., is working with Assistant Professor of Radiology and ...