In the News
November 25, 2020 | Pratt MEMS
Cate named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Cate named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! Congratulations!
November 19, 2020 | Pratt School of Engineering
Cate talks about writing the materials cookbook with NanoMine
If discovering and designing next-gen materials is like cooking, Duke engineer Cate Brinson is writing the materials cookbook.
September 23, 2020 | WRAL TechWire
WRAL TechWire reports our brand new aiM-NRT program
Our brand new traineeship program for graduate students to develop expertise in applying artificial intelligence for materials science research appears in the WRAL TechWire news!
September 21, 2020 | Pratt MEMS
The brand new aiM-NRT program is in the news
The brand new traineeship program for graduate students to develop expertise in using artificial intelligence (AI) for materials science research is in the news: https://mems.duke.edu/about/news/filling-ai-and-materials-science-training-gap
July 14, 2020 | ACS Macro Letters
Our viewpoint article on polymer nanocomposite data is published on ACS Macro Letters
The viewpoint article by the NanoMine team named "Polymer Nanocomposite Data: Curation, Frameworks, Access, and Potential for Discovery and Design" is published on ACS Macro Letters.
August 5, 2019 | Pratt MEMS
Cate is named the first Sharon C. and Harold L. Yoh, III Professor at Duke Engineering
Cate is named the first Sharon C. and Harold L. Yoh, III Professor at Duke Engineering! See details here.
April 5, 2019 | Pratt School of Engineering
Cate is named chair of the department!
Cate is named Chair of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Duke University! Check here for details. Congratulations Cate!

February 13, 2019 | Pratt School of Engineering
Liberating Data to Discover New Polymer Nanocomposites and Metamaterials
New $5 million project aims to build an organized, searchable framework complete with analytical and predictive tools for materials discovery
November 16, 2018
Brinson group receives NSF CSSI award!
Brinson group receives the Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) - Data and Software: Framework Implementations award from NSF. A team of experts from five universities (Duke, RPI, Caltech, Vermont and Northwestern) creates an open source data resource for the polymer [...]
September 23, 2017
Brinson group is moving!
The Brinson group is transitioning from Northwestern to Duke University! Starting in September 2017, the migration has begun. We look forward to long continued collaboration with fantastic colleagues at Northwestern, integrating with new opportunities at Duke.