Bejan

Tanlines are back with 'Bejan' - another slice of totally tropical calypso craziness - and the video features a remixed Flea smacking a big pipe around.

NME.COM - News 2009

Adrian Bejan, a Duke University professor of mechanical engineering who has studied the evolution of body types in sports, says the conventional wisdom has a scientific foundation.

The Year of the Ace Matthew Futterman 2010

Adrian Bejan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University in North Carolina who has studied the connection between evolution and sports, said Great Britain's trajectory in track and field forms a classic S-curve pattern seen in fields as diverse as economics and biology.

The Sad State of British Track Matthew Futterman 2011

Prof. Bejan recently published a study that showed during the past 100 years, the speed of world-record sprinters in both running and swimming has been increasing at the same rate as their size.

Behind the NFL's Touchdown Binge 2009

"The game is a flow system, a river basin of bodies that are milling around trying to find the most effective and easiest way to move," says Prof. Bejan.

Behind the NFL's Touchdown Binge 2009

(The fact that touchdowns make for good television might have played a role here, too.) "The evolution of the drawing never ends," Prof. Bejan says.

Behind the NFL's Touchdown Binge 2009

Adrian Bejan a professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University, likens the NFL's evolution to a river's effect on its basin.

Behind the NFL's Touchdown Binge 2009

• Cristina Bejan of Northwestern wrote and produced two plays during her junior year abroad at Oxford.

USATODAY.com - Top students commit to using their knowledge 2004

Bejan has written five plays in college, all dealing with what it means to be human and how people strive to make life meaningful.

USATODAY.com - Top students commit to using their knowledge 2004

The end of it all was that his grandmother yielded, and Robert was straightway a Bejan, or Yellow-beak.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864