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
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
Sometime after Mayme Webb-Bledsoe took a position with what is now called Duke Community Affairs at Duke University in 2000, she ran into someone in the grocery store from her old West End neighborhood.| Duke Today
John Rusnak was a currency trader in Baltimore when he was convicted of one of the largest bank frauds in American history. He made some poor bets, and rather than telling his boss or others at the bank, he tried to cover the losses up. When he was finally discovered, the bank had lost close to $700 million dollars. In the aftermath, many bank employees lost their jobs.| Duke Today
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
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
<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
Georgetown University history professor J.R. McNeill spoke last week at Duke about global environmental history and the Industrial Revolution.| 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
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
<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
<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
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
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
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
Deadline: July 19, 2024 (extended). Faculty members may submit proposals that link research and advocacy in their teaching or that relate to social justice, environmental justice, voting rights or public history more broadly in Durham and North Carolina.| News RSS Feed
Deadline: July 12, 2024. In partnership with the Provost’s Initiative on the Middle East, Bass Connections is accepting proposals for year-long projects that engage students in the exploration of the humanitarian implications of geopolitical conflict.| News RSS Feed
The Office of the Provost has awarded Intellectual Community Planning Grants to nine projects led by Duke faculty members based in seven schools and one institute.| News RSS Feed
Duke faculty member Christopher W. Sims, a lauded photographer and artist, will be the next director of the Duke Center for Documentary Studies (CDS). Sims is associate professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy and in the Departm...| News RSS Feed
Following a national search, Duke faculty member Brian Murray has been appointed to a five-year term as the director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, effective immediately. Murray, an internationally recognize...| News RSS Feed
Following a national search, Duke faculty member Brian Murray has been appointed to a five-year term as the director of the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, effective immediately. Murray, an internationally recognize...| 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
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
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 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 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
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
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
One Duke alumna and a Duke senior have been named in the inaugural class of Quad Fellows, a new scholarship that provides funding for graduate research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). This scholarship is supported by the governments of the United States, India, A| News RSS Feed
Two Duke University seniors and a Duke Kunshan University alumnus have been named Schwarzman Scholars, a program that funds one year of study in Beijing. They are among approximately 150 scholars that will begin the program in August 2023. Duke University seni| News RSS Feed
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University senior Alexandra Bennion of Tampa, Florida, is one of 12 Americans selected this weekend to receive the George J. Mitchell Scholarship for a year of graduate study in Ireland. This year, 306 students applied for the scholarship, named in honor of Sen. Geo| News RSS Feed
DURHAM, N.C. – Two Duke University seniors were among the recipients selected this weekend for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Qi Xuan Khoo and Shreyas Hallur were chosen from among many applicants from colleges and universities. Hallur received one of the 32 scholarships available| News RSS Feed
Twenty-three Duke students and alumni have been named Fulbright recipients to teach English, pursue graduate study and conduct research abroad during the 2022-2023 academic year. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the U.S. government’s flagship| News RSS Feed
Duke University alumna Julie Uchitel, Class of 2019, has been awarded the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. The award provides full funding for the graduate program of the student’s choosing at Stanford University. Uchitel is the seventh Duke student to| News RSS Feed
