January 31, 2012
Martha Monserrate found her calling in the most unlikely place, a former toxic waste dump. Monserrate was working at the infamous Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York, where a neighborhood and school had been built on top of 21,000 tons of hazardous chemical waste. Every day, she would don a moon...
January 18, 2012
As the principal of a newly approved charter school in poverty-stricken East Austin, Texas, John Armbrust, ’04, knows the challenges he will face building a school system from scratch. He should; it was his idea to start the school in an area most Texans would rather that visitors to the Texas...
November 15, 2011
On November 4, Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering unveiled a new awards wall honoring the 23 alumni and faculty who have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering to date. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer.
September 14, 2011
The lights are up, the cameraman is ready. Only five seconds to check makeup and review notes before going live in front of a major metropolitan audience. While this may not sound like the typical morning of most Duke engineering alumni, for Holly Morris (E ’93), this routine is business as usual.
August 01, 2011
For most of his life, Danal Blessis was rooted to the East Coast of the U.S. He lived in North Carolina since the sixth grade, graduating from Duke in 1982 with a civil engineering degree in 1982, followed by 13 more years in his first career stop.Back then, the School of Engineering had not yet...
February 15, 2011
Civil engineer Kristen Boswell, who graduated from Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering in 2006, earned her Professional Engineer (PE) license for the State of New Jersey. She also made her family pretty proud.
