Going into her senior year at Duke, Danielle Squires ’02 was well on her way to making the most of her remaining time on campus and was excited about starting her career. But when she learned both of her parents lost their jobs and would not be able to pay tui| News RSS Feed
April 03, 2024 | By Dan Vahaba Originally published on Duke Today --- “To me, religion is just brain activity,” said Larissa Carneiro, Ph.D., a religious studies instructor at Duke whose work is at the inter| News RSS Feed
March 14, 2024 | By Dan Vahaba Originally published on Duke Today --- DURHAM, NC – Living in a poorer neighborhood is linked to accelerated brain aging and increased dementia risk early in life, regardless of income level or education, a Duke University-led study fin| News RSS Feed
January 30, 2024 Originally published by Duke Today --- Rejection letters will never provide happiness, but sometimes, if written with kindness, they can be helpful. At least one applicant to Duke’s graduate| News RSS Feed
January 22, 2024 | By Stephen Schramm Originally published by Duke Today --- Whether their contributions came in the form of decades of dedicated service, expanding the horizons of the institution, or responding to daunting challenges, the 2023-24 winners of Duke’s Pres| News RSS Feed
November 29, 2023 | By RA Smith Originally published in Duke Today --- DURHAM, N.C. -- We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience,| News RSS Feed
DURHAM, NC – Scientists can now pinpoint where someone’s eyes are looking just by listening to their ears. “You can actually estimate the movement of the eyes, the position of the target that the eyes are going to look at, just from recordings made with a microphone in the ear canal,” s| News RSS Feed
November 6, 2023 | By Dan Vahaba Originally published by Duke Today --- DURHAM, NC -- A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of Duke neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, and engineers can translate a person’s brain signals into what they’re trying to say.| News RSS Feed
October 24, 2023 | By Abby Hsiung Originally published on Duke Today --- DURHAM, NC – Curiosity paradoxically increases people’s eagerness and patience for an answer, finds a new study by Duke neuroscientists. The research might help teachers and students alike by des| News RSS Feed
DURHAM, N.C. -- Barack Obama. Meghan Markle. Trevor Noah. Depending on your race, you might consider these and other Multiracial people as Black, White, or somewhere in-between, according to new research by psychologists at Duke University and the University of Chicago.| Duke Today
Individuals and Groups Collect 19 Climate and Sustainability Awards| Duke Today
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Kelly Lytle Hernández grew up in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands during the 1980s and ’90s — a period marked by the rapid expansion of immigration law enforcement. Border Patrol was a major part of everyday life, she says, prompting her to ask many questions about race and policing.| Duke Today
Out of nearly 2,000 applicants from Australia, Japan, the U.S., and Southeast Asia, Rafid Shidqi was selected as one of 37 winners of the Quad Fellowship, which supports top-performing students pursuing graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Shidqi is a rising third-year PhD student in Marine Science and Conservation at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He is working under the supervision of Grant Murray, associate professor of marine pol...| Duke Today
The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute bids farewell to retirees Mary Williams and Pam Montgomery, two key figures who have helped ensure its success over the decades.| News RSS Feed
Last month, historic, intense rainfall by Tropical Depression Chantal triggered flash flooding in Durham and the surrounding Triangle region.| Duke Today
Administrator will serve two-year term as senior vice provost for interdisciplinary programs and initiatives| News RSS Feed
12 middle school students embark on the unique, rare opportunity to study history hands-on in the year-long John Hope Franklin Young Scholars program. (Duke Today) The post Young Historians Follow in John Hope Franklin’s Tradition first appeared on Duke Community Affairs.| Duke Community Affairs
Following a standard review for university administrators, Ed Balleisen has been reappointed for a two-year term and elevated to senior vice provost for interdisciplinary programs and initiatives, Provost Alec D. Gallimore announced this week.| Duke Today
Can a summer program spark a lifelong passion? For Matthew Ross, a Duke Ph.D. graduate in ecology, one of Duke’s interdisciplinary “plus programs” helped lead to a career that blends environmental science, data visualization and collaborative teaching.| News RSS Feed
A cross-institutional summer workshop was created to help understand how climate change affects people in different parts of the world, especially those who have been historically oppressed.| News RSS Feed
A cross-institutional summer workshop was created to help understand how climate change affects people in different parts of the world, especially those who have been historically oppressed.| News RSS Feed
Research Professor Wesley Hogan discusses the importance of the right to vote| News RSS Feed
Author Nathan Thrall discusses ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama’| News RSS Feed
Author Nathan Thrall discusses ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama’| News RSS Feed
Author Nathan Thrall discusses ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama’| News RSS Feed
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With a multi-year investigative project, the "Archives and Creative Process: Blues Women and Rosetta Records" Bass Connections team digs into Duke archives to understand race, gender, and representation.| News RSS Feed
Each year since 2020, as part of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute convenes a jury to present the Franklin Humanities Institute Award to a short film that highlights documentary as a formally inventiv| News RSS Feed
Duke Campus Farm Program Director and FHI Assistant Professor of the Practice| News RSS Feed
Alexa Hagerty’s book wins Duke’s Méndez Human Rights Book Award| News RSS Feed
From our colleagues at the Manuscript Migration Lab: The Franklin Humanities Institute, the Manuscript Migration Lab, Lib| News RSS Feed
From our colleagues at the Manuscript Migration Lab: The Franklin Humanities Institute, the Manuscript Migration Lab, Lib| News RSS Feed
Why historian John Hope Franklin’s work remains essential today| News RSS Feed
Mark Anthony Neal’s web series opens with conversation with Jasmine Cobb on Black hair| News RSS Feed
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<div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>Nineteenth-century hoopskirts; food and agriculture; living while incarcerated. These are distinct subjects, but at a recent event at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, they had something in common: stories.</p>&l| News RSS Feed
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Georgetown University history professor J.R. McNeill spoke last week at Duke about global environmental history and the Industrial Revolution.| News RSS Feed
Activist received 2020 MacArthur Fellowship for her work to support disenfranchised rural communities| News RSS Feed
More than 60 faculty and students shared stories about times when they were wrong, as well as the barriers to opening up about intellectual or professional errors.| News RSS Feed
Program offers introduction to Duke leadership, strategic initiatives| News RSS Feed
Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement Abbas Benmamoun said he often hears how opportunities for interdisciplinary research and collaboration across disciplinary boundaries make scholars want to put down roots at Duke.| News RSS Feed
Duke faculty, staff and students encouraged to participate and share their experiences| News RSS Feed
<div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>Duke University will soon start working on developing a faculty hiring policy to ensure that the reference check process includes disclosures from candidates of any prior or on-going investigations and findings of harassment, inc| News RSS Feed
Colleagues share tips for boosting professional self-belief| News RSS Feed
Sanford School faculty member will get close look at administrative workings across the university| News RSS Feed
<div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>Craig Henriquez, associate vice provost for faculty advancement and professor of biomedical engineering at Duke, died Thursday, Aug. 24. He was 64 years old.</p><p>Over his 35-year career, Henriquez contributed to the| News RSS Feed
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Sherilynn Black joins other national leaders to guide new National Academies initiative| News RSS Feed
Feb. 17 forum offers an opportunity for in-depth consideration of ‘Big Problems in Big Tech’.| News RSS Feed
Building Hope for Racial Equity Work at Duke in 2023| Duke Today
A Duke graduate student got involved in a grant to use drones to study whales in Antarctica. He ended up finding more than he imagined.| News RSS Feed
As Will Lieber graduates, he leaves behind not just a custom major, but a model for turning personal passion into public impact. This transfer student turned community-engaged researcher is a Duke maximalist, in the best way.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: June 30, 2025. Each pilot grant will provide up to $30,000 to support research that aligns with mutual missions to reduce global health inequities through responsive, sustainable and community-driven solutions.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: June 30, 2025. Each pilot grant will provide up to $30,000 to support research that aligns with mutual missions to reduce global health inequities through responsive, sustainable and community-driven solutions.| News RSS Feed
Faculty and students joined community partners to explore how they developed their projects, the impact of their efforts and challenges they encountered. And they offered some advice for those interested in getting involved in community-engaged work.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: February 24, 2025. The newest addition to Duke’s popular +Programs, Doc+ offers students the opportunity to contribute to real-world documentary fieldwork and explore diverse mediums such as photography, film, audio and oral history.| News RSS Feed
Provost Alec D. Gallimore has appointed a committee to conduct a review of Ed Balleisen, vice provost for interdisciplinary studies. Duke conducts regular reviews of all deans, vice provosts, senior staff and faculty members who have major administrati...| News RSS Feed
The contentious 2024 U.S. presidential election may be over, but Americans across the political spectrum remain baffled by the other side. The percentage of U.S. adults who see the nation as divided on key values is higher than at any point in the last...| News RSS Feed
Times Higher Education Rankings lists Duke at No. 5 in the world for interdisciplinary science| News RSS Feed
Deadline: January 3, 2025 (extended). We invite proposals from faculty members that link research and advocacy in their teaching or relate to social justice, environmental justice, voting rights or public history more broadly in Durham and North Carolina.| News RSS Feed
Scholar and artist Ashon Crawley will engage with students and faculty on both campuses and give three public lectures: Oct. 23 at Duke, Jan. 29 at UNC, and a third in Spring 2025.| News RSS Feed
Digital humanities scholar Victoria Szabo talks about some of the latest digital arts and history projects at Duke that are allowing students to learn in new ways| News RSS Feed
NextGenPop conference builds a new, diverse generation of population sciences students| News RSS Feed
Christine Folch, Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, has been appointed Peter Lange Director of DukeEngage. DukeEngage is an eight-week summer program in which undergraduates work with communities addressing critical issues.| News RSS Feed
Christine Folch, Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, has been appointed Peter Lange Director of DukeEngage. DukeEngage is an eight-week summer program in which undergraduates work with communities addressing critical issues.| News RSS Feed
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Duke Campus Farm joins the Office of Climate and Sustainability, led by Toddi Steelman.| News RSS Feed
Saskia Cornes, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of the Practice, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute; Program Director, Duke Campus Farm A farmer, educator and scholar of the environmental humanities, Sa| News RSS Feed
Saskia Cornes, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of the Practice, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute; Program Director, Duke Campus Farm A farmer, educator and scholar of the environmental humanities, Sa| News RSS Feed
Emily McGinty oversees community workdays and gets her hands dirty building partnerships| News RSS Feed
Duke Campus Farm puts 66 boxes – or shares – together every week for consumers| News RSS Feed
Over the summer, volunteers work the soil and learn about sustainable agriculture| News RSS Feed
Harvesting on a below-freezing morning would have been nearly impossible a few years ago at the Duke Campus Farm.| Duke Today
Aaron Siegle has been chosen for a Udall Scholarship.| News RSS Feed
Two Duke alumni have been awarded the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate study at Stanford University. Class of 2024 graduates Chloe Nguyen and Neil Upreti have each received up to three years of financial support at Stanford University.| Duke Today
Deven Gupta and Paul Rosu have been awarded Goldwater scholarships.| News RSS Feed
Daniel Ehrlich, Sarah Konrad and Marie-Hélène Tomé were named winners of the Marshall Scholarship. Their selection made Duke the second-largest producer of winners for this selection year. They will join 33 other recipients for graduate study in the UK.| News RSS Feed
Jenna Smith will use the Rhodes Scholarship to do two years of graduate study at the University of Oxford. The international comparative studies major has a strong record of scholarship, journalism and civic engagement with a focus on restorative justice.| News RSS Feed
Duke alumnus Ayden Case T’22 has received the Udall Native American Graduate Fellowship in Tribal Policy.| News RSS Feed
Duke class of 2026 students Luna Abadia, Dylan Cawley and Henry Stephens IV have received the Voyager Scholarship. Also referred to as the Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, the program offers funding and leadership training to students committe| News RSS Feed
A Duke alumna and a graduating senior have been awarded the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate study at Stanford University. Linda Zhang, class of 2020, and Duke University senior Daniel Collins, class of 2024, have each received up to three years of financial support at Stanford University| News RSS Feed
Duke junior Coral Lin has received the Udall Scholarship, which recognizes students who have demonstrated a commitment to careers| News RSS Feed
Duke junior Yadira Paz-Martinez is among the 60 students that were selected as 2024 Truman Scholars from more than 700 candidates| News RSS Feed
Duke students selected for the 2024 Goldwater Scholarship.| News RSS Feed
Logan Glasstetter, from Davison, Michigan, received the Marshall to support his scientific research and scholarship.| News RSS Feed
Duke senior Sejal Mayer-Patel was named a Schwarzman Scholar and will study Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.| News RSS Feed
Duke senior Chloe Nguyen and recent alumnus Christopher (Chris) Kuo have been awarded the George J. Mitchell Scholarship for graduate study in Ireland.| News RSS Feed
Ariella Amarachukwu Chukwuma, Duke junior, has been awarded a Udall Scholarship for her work with the environment.| News RSS Feed
The PD Soros Fellowships, established in 1998, award up to $90,000 to immigrants and children of immigrants to complete graduate studies in the United States. Applicants are selected based on their potential to make significant contributions to American society, culture, or their academic field.<| News RSS Feed
Adam Iraelevitz was awarded a James C. Gaither Junior Fellowship by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.| News RSS Feed
Sofia Guerrero, a Duke junior, was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship for 2023-2024 academic year.| News RSS Feed
The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board offered 26 grants to Duke students and alumni for the 2022-2023 academic year.| News RSS Feed
