Yan Liu, Associate Professor of the Practice in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) and Director of the Chinese Language Program has received the 2025 Klett Award for Sustainable Development Education in the World Language Classroom from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The award honors Liu’s innovative work embedding themes of global sustainability, intercultural understanding, and social responsibility into language education. Through courses such as China and the… read more » about Yan Liu Receives Award for Sustainable Development Education in the World Language Classroom
Shaundra Daily was recognized for her contributions to computing education, and Nicki Washington was recognized for contributions to broadening participation in computing. read more » about Nicki Washington and Shaundra Daily Named Distinguished Members of Association for Computing Machinery
An interdisciplinary team of Duke faculty is among the international recipients of a new grant from the Schmidt Sciences Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI), a program designed to bridge the gap between AI technology and humanistic inquiry. Led by Martin Fischer, Research Professor of Chemistry and Physics; Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics from Bar-Ilan University (formerly of Duke); and John K. Delaney, from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the project… read more » about Duke Researchers Awarded Grant to Reveal Hidden Histories of Artworks Through AI and Imaging
The Modern Language Association of America is awarding its 28th annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies to Kate Driscoll, assistant professor of Romance Studies. Her manuscript, "Tasso and Women Readers: Literary Hospitality in Early Modern Italy," will be published by Cambridge University Press.The award is one of 23 that will be presented on January 9, 2026 during the association’s annual convention, to be held in Toronto. The members of the selection committee were… read more » about Kate Driscoll Receives Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies
In recognition of his outstanding scholarly achievement, Peter S. Arcidiacono was invested as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters at an annual ceremony on November 12 in Washington, DC.Arcidiacono is the William Henry Glasson Distinguished Professor of Economics. He specializes in applied microeconomics, applied economics and labor economics, with particular focus on education and discrimination. His work, which has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver… read more » about Economics Scholar Honored by American Academy of Sciences and Letters
Every year, the research intelligence company Clarivate publishes a list of Highly Cited Researchers. These researchers have multiple publications which rank in the top 1% by citation in their fields and are further selected for exemplifying excellence and integrity in their work.The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list was recently released, and 29 Duke scholars were featured on the list of 6,868 researchers. These leading researchers hail from across Duke University, Duke Health and Duke-NUS Medical School… read more » about Trinity Scholars Featured in the Highly Cited Researchers 2025 List
Calvin R. Howell, Professor of Physics, was awarded the 2025 Francis Slack Award at this year’s Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) Annual Meeting. The award, presented by the American Physical Society (APS), honors "Excellence in Service to Physics in the Southeast.”Professor Howell’s research is in the area of experimental nuclear physics with emphasis on the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) description of low-energy nuclear phenomena, including structure properties of nucleons and… read more » about Calvin Howell Receives 2025 Francis Slack Award from the American Physical Society
Mike West, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistical Science, was the recipient of the 2025 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research. The award was presented by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) at the Joint Statistics Meetings held in Nashville, TN. This prestigious award recognizes “sustained, high-quality cross-disciplinary research involving the statistical sciences.”The award is especially meaningful at Duke, where both Jerry Sacks and Mike West left a lasting mark on the Department… read more » about Mike West Wins 2025 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research
Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Mathematics, was honored Thursday, Sept. 25, as a 2025 Citation Laureate, a global recognition of research excellence presented by Clarivate Plc. Daubechies, who received the National Medal of Science earlier this year, is among 22 researchers worldwide to be recognized by Clarivate, a global provider of transformative intelligence, with the honor this year. Since the program’s inception, 83 Citation Laureates have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes.… read more » about Ingrid Daubechies Earns Global Recognition as 2025 Citation Laureate
Four faculty in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences were recently recognized by the Arts & Sciences Council for outstanding achievements in undergraduate teaching.Each year, the Council’s Committee on Undergraduate Teaching honors outstanding faculty for their commitment to their students, for engaging them deeply in research and scholarship, for their continued development as innovative teachers and mentors, and more.Members of the council — in collaboration with the dean's office — select… read more » about Four Trinity Faculty Receive 2025 Undergraduate Teaching Awards
Faculty member Tamika Nunley has won the Journal of Women's History Article Prize for 2025 for her work, “The Intellectual World of Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Genius” which appeared in the journal's Spring 2024 issue (Volume 36, Number 1). The William & Sue Gross Professor of History and Bass Chair, Nunley is a celebrated historian of African American women’s history and the history of slavery. Her award-winning article examines the life and work of enslaved African American poet Phillis Wheatley and her… read more » about Tamika Nunley Wins 2025 Journal of Women's History Article Prize
Assistant Professor of History Mélanie Lamotte has been awarded the French Colonial Historical Society’s 2025 Best Article Prize for “Beyond the Atlantic: Unifying Racial Policies across the Early French Empire,” which appeared in the William & Mary Quarterly Vol. 81, no. 1 (Jan. 2024): 3-36. In the citation for the award, the French Colonial Historical Society notes that Lamotte’s article “ambitiously bridges the stories and historiographies of France’s colonies in North America and the Caribbean with those in the… read more » about Mélanie Lamotte Wins French Colonial Historical Society’s Best Article Prize
Thavolia Glymph, Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History, was honored with the Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History Award from the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) at its annual meeting in June. She is also the recipient of the 2025 Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award from the Samuel DuBois Cook Society at Duke University. Glymph has served as President of the American Historical Association (2024), President of the Southern Historical Association (2019-2020… read more » about Thavolia Glymph Wins 2025 Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History Award
Five Duke scholars have been selected for fellowships in the 2025-26 “Institute for Faculty Voice and Collaborative Leadership,” organized by the Ivy+ Faculty Advancement Network. Nominated by their deans, they will join a cohort of faculty members from other Ivy+ institutions to develop and apply new approaches to strengthen their leadership strategies in the current academic landscape. read more » about Two Trinity Faculty Chosen for Ivy+ Institute on Leadership in the Current Academic Landscape
Dan Scolnic, associate professor of physics in Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, has been selected to serve as Duke’s presidential fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year. The Presidential Fellowship program was established by President Vincent Price with the objective of providing a faculty member a year-long opportunity to experience firsthand the workings of university administration.Scolnic joined Duke’s faculty in 2019 and is considered one of the nation’s leading scholars in the field of cosmology. His research… read more » about Dan Scolnic Named Presidential Fellow
Four Duke professors from three schools have received the 2025-26 Thomas Langford Lectureship Award.Provost Alec Gallimore, in consultation with the Committee on Appointments, Promotion and Tenure, selected the recipients of this annual award from among all recently promoted or hired faculty members.This distinguished lecture series honors Tommy Langford, who served Duke for 41 years as Divinity School professor, dean and provost. He embodied the highest university values of scholarship, teaching, collegiality and the… read more » about Four Duke Scholars Honored With Langford Lectureship Award
Two Computer Science faculty are receiving inaugural Google Machine Learning and Systems Junior Faculty Awards.Assistant Professor Pardis Emami-Naeini and Assistant Professor Lisa Wu Wills will each receive an unrestricted gift of USD $100K to support their future research and will be invited to participate in a symposium with fellow awardees. They were selected in recognition of the significance and promise of their work in security & privacy and hardware acceleration, respectively. read more » about Computer Science Faculty Receive Google Machine Learning and Systems Awards
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, professor of the practice and the director of undergraduate studies in Statistical Science, has been appointed director of the First-Year Experience in Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.Çetinkaya-Rundel will play a pivotal role in overseeing the launch of the First-Year Experience, a signature component of the new Arts & Sciences curriculum being implemented in Fall 2025. All incoming first-year students will participate in the experience through either the longstanding FOCUS program or the… read more » about Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel Appointed Director of the First-Year Experience in Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Tyson Brown, a professor of sociology and associate professor in medicine, has been appointed director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University effective July 1, Provost Alec D. Gallimore announced.Brown succeeds the Cook Center’s founding director, William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and professor of African & African American studies and economics.Established in 2015, the Cook Center is a scholarly collaborative that studies the… read more » about Tyson Brown Named Director of Cook Center
Duke University faculty member Jonathan Mattingly, the Kimberly J. Jenkins Distinguished University Professor of New Technologies in the Department of Mathematics, has been chosen to serve as interim director of the Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke (Rhodes iiD).Mattingly’s work centers on models of phenomena where randomness plays a significant role, such as air turbulence or Monte Carlo algorithms for Bayesian sampling. He has also worked on biological problems related to cellular metabolism, infectious diseases and… read more » about Jonathan Mattingly Named Interim Director of Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke
The richness of Duke’s intellectual communities and its deep commitment to interdisciplinarity are major draws for top scholars who are leaders in their fields. To help recruit these academic stars, Duke leveraged the university-wide institutes, initiatives and centers (UICs) to create the Provost’s School-UIC Joint Hiring Program and to offer starting support from UICs. Donors’ generous gifts helped make these programs possible.Duke was able to recruit more than 40 faculty members through these mechanisms between 2006 and… read more » about Nine Reasons Stellar Interdisciplinary Faculty Choose Duke
Duke faculty members Denise Comer, Saskia Cornes, Shai Ginsburg, Candis Watts Smith and Norbert Wilson spent last year serving as fellows in the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Leaders Network (ACC ALN).“Being part of the ACC ALN was incredibly energizing and inspiring,” said Comer, who is professor of the practice and director of the Thompson Writing Program. “It connected me with a thoughtful community of peers and gave me practical tools and fresh perspectives that continue to shape how I lead and collaborate.”… read more » about A Year of Faculty Leadership Development With the ACC
Kerry L. Haynie, Trinity’s dean of Social Sciences and professor of Political Science and African & African American Studies, recently received the Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Award from the American Political Science Association. Honoring scholarly contributions to U.S. state politics or policy that continue to shape the field more than a decade after publication, the award was presented to Haynie and co-author Kathleen Bratton of Louisiana State University for their influential 1999 Journal of… read more » about Enduring Impact: A Seat at the Table Still Matters
The Office of the Provost and The Graduate School have selected three proposals to establish new Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Collaboratives (IGECs). Made possible by a generous grant from The Duke Endowment, these IGECs will launch in Fall 2026 and offer graduate students unique opportunities to tackle complex societal challenges alongside peers and faculty from across campus.Through seminars, working groups and projects, students will receive applied training and gain exposure to emerging issues at the… read more » about Equipping Graduate Students to Tackle Emerging Challenges
Cynthia D. Rudin, the Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, received the 2025 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Organization (IJCAI) McCarthy Award.The award recognizes Rudin’s foundational work on trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI), which is shaping the field of interpretable machine learning and making a major impact on sweeping societal changes. The John McCarthy Award celebrates mid-career researchers who have sparked innovative research… read more » about Cynthia Rudin Receives 2025 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence McCarthy Award
Lee D. Baker has been appointed vice provost for undergraduate education at Duke, Provost Alec D. Gallimore announced today.Baker, a professor in the departments of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies, has been a member of the faculty for 30 years. He served as chair of the Arts & Sciences Council from 2005-2007, dean of academic affairs in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences from 2008-2016, chair of Cultural Anthropology from 2017-2020, and director of the Program in International… read more » about Lee D. Baker Appointed Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Eight faculty in Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences have been honored with named professorships, effective July 1.These endowed positions recognize leadership and commitment to excellence in scholarship and research. Their recipients are outstanding teachers, mentors and researchers whose contributions are invaluable to the College of Arts & Sciences, as well as their students and colleagues.“Trinity is defined by the strength of its faculty, and we are extraordinarily fortunate to count these… read more » about Eight Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Honored With Named Professorships
The Office for Faculty Advancement has awarded seed grants to six new projects led by Duke faculty members. The theme for this grant cycle is “Deepening Engagement and Improving the Faculty Experience.”Faculty were invited to propose creative approaches to strengthening faculty communities and relationships; innovative initiatives to improve the culture in departments, centers and schools; and new faculty groups that deepen engagement on topics relevant to the faculty experience.The seed grant program will provide financial… read more » about Trinity Faculty Join New Projects to Deepen Engagement and Improve the Faculty Experience