Going up for tenure or promotion “can feel like an awkward process,” said Provost Alec Gallimore, but “you would not be here if we didn’t have 100% satisfaction that you have the wherewithal to be able to get to through this process.”| News RSS Feed
Bridging research and real-world impact, Anushka Kumar spent her summer turning neuroscience into lesson plans — empowering Durham youth and confirming her own academic journey.| News RSS Feed
Two Duke alumni, Shreyas Hallur, T’23, and Kashyap Sreeram, T’24, have received the Samvid Scholarship. They were among 20 scholars selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants. The program awards up to $100,000 towards tuition and fees for two years of graduate study.| Duke Today
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
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
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
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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
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Growing the Campus and Shrinking Emissions at the Same Time | Duke Today
Duke University has released a plan to become climate neutral by 2024, which coincides with the 100th anniversary of James B. Duke signing the indenture of trust that established the institution.| Duke Today
Throughout their learning, children are taught a lot about their rights, but they often don’t hear about the stories behind how these rights that benefit all of us, were established.| Duke Today
Duke President Vincent Price and Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams touted the launch of Duke University’s Center for Community Engagement Wednesday as a way to bolster purposeful partnerships with the city, region and the nation.| Duke Today
After a national search, Deborah (Debbie) Goldstein has been selected as the new associate vice president/associate vice provost for community-engaged scholarship. She will report jointly to Stelfanie Williams, Vice President for Community Affairs, and Ed Balleisen, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Provost’s Office. Her first day in this new role will be March 1, 2025.| Duke Today
17 years ago, Duke University pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2024, the year of its centennial. This Duke Today series explores the varied efforts the university used to achieve that goal.| Duke Today
Duke Reaches Important Milestone in Carbon Neutrality| Duke Today
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s ambitious effort to become carbon neutral by 2024 will add an expanded solar energy component through a partnership with an Asheville, North Carolina-based solar developer.| Duke Today
