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Congress Members Visit Duke to Experience the Future of Airport Security

Congress Members Visit Duke to Experience the Future of Airport Security

Three members of the North Carolina delegation to Congress visited Duke’s campus to tour research labs and view demonstrations of airport security research projects happening at Duke.

U.S. Representatives Hudson, Holding, Jackson Lee, and Price to Tour Duke University Research Lab

U.S. Representatives Hudson, Holding, Jackson Lee, and Price to Tour Duke University Research Lab

Transportation Security Subcommittee Chairman Richard Hudson (NC-08) will travel to North Carolina to visit Duke University’s Fitzpatrick Center.

Our Center is Hiring Multiple New positions

Our Center is Hiring Multiple New positions

CMIP is hiring multiple new positions and seeking candidates with a background in Industry, Physics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering to assist with our Metaimaging Project. Education requirements and qualifications vary, see the full listing of new positions below! We encourage you to…

3D: printing the future exhibit at the London Science Museum

3D: printing the future exhibit at the London Science Museum

An exhibition dedicated to showcasing the latest innovations in 3D printing is to open at the London Science Museum October 9th 2013 - February 10th 2014. The exhibit Called '3D: Printing the Future' will feature contributions from Duke University’s Center for Metamaterials and Integrated…

7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics

7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics

Conference highlights from CMIP attendees.

Nanoscience Exhibit at Bradbury Museum features invisibility cloak

Nanoscience Exhibit at Bradbury Museum features invisibility cloak

A new exhibit has opened at the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, featuring a general introduction to metamaterials, some of the more recent work in this area by Brener, Chen and CINT’s users, and one of the RF cloaks from the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics…

How to 3-D print your own invisibility cloak

How to 3-D print your own invisibility cloak

Engineers have designed a plastic disk that uses microwave light to make objects in its center disappear By Yaroslav Urzhumov Now you see it…

Partnership with Evolv aims to transform security scanning

Partnership with Evolv aims to transform security scanning

From Geekwire.com, published Thursday August 29th 2013

Metamaterials migrate out of the laboratory and into the marketplace

Metamaterials migrate out of the laboratory and into the marketplace

An article published in Nature this week explores how metamaterials are making a huge impact on applications such as cheaper satellite communications, thinner smartphones and ultrafast optical data processing.  Reseach leading to these advancements in metamaterials are lead by scientist in…

#WeTheGeeks: The Stuff Superheroes Are Made Of

#WeTheGeeks: The Stuff Superheroes Are Made Of

Nathan Landy, Graduate student from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University was asked to join the "We the Geeks" Google + hangout. From the whitehouse website:

Graduate student Nathan Landy participates in "We the Geeks" Whitehouse Google + hangout

Graduate student Nathan Landy participates in "We the Geeks" Whitehouse Google + hangout

“We the Geeks" is a new series of Google+ Hangouts to highlight the future of science, technology, and innovation here in the United States. Topics such as commercial space exploration, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, turning science fiction to science fact, and…

Kymeta Raises $50M for Metamaterial Satellite Ground Antenna

Kymeta Raises $50M for Metamaterial Satellite Ground Antenna

Kymeta closes $50 Million Series C Financing In a recent aricle from Satellitetoday.com "Kymeta has successfully closed a $50 million Series C financing arrangement to accelerate its growth plans. Kymeta, a privately held technology company, designs and manufactures satellite communication…

John Pendry wins 2013 Isaac Newton Medal

John Pendry wins 2013 Isaac Newton Medal

Congratulations to John Pendry, the British theoretical physicist who helped build the first working "invisibility cloak" has won the 2013 Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics.

Yu-Ju Tsai presented at CLEO: 2013

Yu-Ju Tsai presented at CLEO: 2013

The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO: 2013) was held in San Jose, CA, from June 9th to 14th.

Urzhumov attends Phononics 2013 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Urzhumov attends Phononics 2013 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Yaroslav Urzhumov shares some of the exciting things he learned at the conference.