A recent study about maternal deaths at Kawempe National Referral Hospital in Uganda found that “as many as 1 in 50 maternal deaths worldwide occur in Uganda.” Moreover, between 2016 and 2018, around 84% of maternal deaths within the hospital alone were considered preventable. Each year, over 70,000 women die from postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), […] The post Duke and Uganda’s Makerere University Join to Combat Maternal Mortality appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
What if some of the most innovative academic contributions this year didn’t come from tenured professors but students still working toward their degrees? Though often treated as a novel or even surprising idea, student researchers are producing work that challenges these assumptions and pushes the boundaries of work within their fields. Their contributions are not […] The post Bridging the Classroom and the Real World appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
Like many students, those enrolled in the Design Climate two-course sequence recently held final presentations. However, their pitches on April 18 reflected not just one semester of work, but rather an entire year’s worth of planning, experimenting, and revising creative environmental solutions. These courses are a tinkering space, so it shouldn’t have surprised me how […] The post These Student Entrepreneurs Are Taking Climate Solutions Beyond the Classroom appeared first on Research...| Research Blog
The Duke Campus Farm typically sees more visitors than usual on Fridays, when it holds Community Work Days and welcomes students, faculty, and community members to help run tasks and learn more about its sustainable agriculture practices. However, this particular Friday, April 11, was a bit special. Instead of us volunteers driving wheelbarrows back and […] The post Growing Your Own Mushrooms Is Easier Than You Think, Thanks to Workshops at the Duke Campus Farm appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
Before introducing the theme of his April 22 talk on abuses in medical research, University of Minnesota philosophy professor Dr. Carl Elliott discussed a literary device in detail. “Man-in-a-hole,” coined by the acclaimed American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, describes a story structure in which the main character, upon facing adversity, plunges into crisis yet overcomes this […] The post Blowing the Whistle: Bioethics’ Role in Medicine appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
It all starts with a simple question: How can I help? For some Duke students, the answer meant taking initiative – transforming empathy into action, ideas, and impact in order to tackle the most pressing global health issues head-on. On April 10, 2025, two Duke teams were among 22 semi-finalist teams, representing 18 universities across […] The post Duke Team Claims First Place at Global Health Tech Competition appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
If there was a contest for biggest female bullies of the animal world, lemurs would be near the top of the list. In these distant primate cousins, it’s the ladies who call the shots, relying on physical aggression to get their way and keep males in line. Not all lemur societies are built about female […] The post How Changes in Lemur Brains Made Some Mean Girls Nice appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
On Thursday, April 17, students from Duke’s course Climate, Culture and Identity held a screening for their documentary shorts focusing on how climate change has been impacting Durham and nearby communities. Led by Duke professors Saskia Cornes and Lauren Henschel, the class produced intellectually stimulating and inspirational documentary shorts. “These are people who have never […] The post Roots and Resilience: Students Document Climate Change in Durham appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
Biomedical engineering. Climate science. Political science. Global Health. While these departments are housed in buildings far from each other on campus, their current research was all spotlighted at the Duke Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 10. Over the course of two hours, 120 budding researchers presented their work in Penn Pavilion, eagerly chatting with peers, […] The post Posters Galore and More: Undergraduate Research in the Spotlight appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
COVID-19 continues to plague us, Mpox is an emerging global threat, and the avian flu is decimating industrial poultry as well as endangered wildlife. What do all these epidemics have in common? They originated in wild animals and spread to domestic animals and people. This pattern of spread is a trademark of many diseases, termed […] The post Could Restoring Forests Reduce Disease Risk? A Case Study of Hantavirus in Madagascar appeared first on Research Blog.| Research Blog
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On Thursday, April 17, students from Duke’s course Climate, Culture and Identity held a screening for their documentary shorts focusing on how climate change has been impacting Durham and nearby communities. Led by Duke professors Saskia Cornes and Lauren Henschel, the class produced intellectually stimulating and inspirational documentary shorts. “These are people who have never […]| Research Blog
It sounds fantastical, but it’s a reality for the scientists who work at the world’s largest particle collider: In an underground tunnel some 350 feet beneath the France–Switzerland border, a huge device called the Large Hadron Collider sends beams of protons smashing into each other at nearly the speed of light, creating tiny eruptions that […]| Research Blog
