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Research Triangle Park -- The second annual Triangle Venture Day brought together startup companies and research faculty from all three Triangle Universities and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to present their ideas for drug discovery and new treatments to investors who came from all over the country on Sept. 12. Four Duke faculty and the leaders of two Duke spinouts were among two dozen presenters asking for $1 million to $25 million in support. More than 50 investors attended the session to see presentations… read more » about Duke Companies and Faculty Share Ideas with Investors at Triangle Venture Day

Four faculty in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences were recently recognized by the Arts & Sciences Council for outstanding achievements in undergraduate teaching. Members of the council — in collaboration with the dean's office — choose the award recipients each year by considering student evaluations, teaching statements and recommendations from colleagues as part of the selection process. Four awards are given each year, spanning the breadth of undergraduate disciplines offered in the college. “The… read more » about Four Trinity Faculty Receive Undergraduate Teaching Awards

Warren Warren, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Physics, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, and David Beratan, R.J. Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and Physics, have been recognized with 2024 American Chemical Society National Awards for their outstanding contributions to their fields of research. Beratan’s contributions to the field of Chemical Physics were recognized with the Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, sponsored by the Journal of Chemical Physics and the ACS Division… read more » about Warren and Beratan Recognized by the American Chemical Society National Awards

DURHAM, N.C. -- Many of the bacteria that ravage crops and threaten our food supply use a common strategy to cause disease: they inject a cocktail of harmful proteins directly into the plant’s cells. For 25 years, biologist Sheng-Yang He and his senior research associate Kinya Nomura have been puzzling over this set of molecules that plant pathogens use to cause diseases in hundreds of crops worldwide ranging from rice to apple trees. Now, thanks to a team effort between three collaborating research groups, they may… read more » about Mysterious Family of Microbial Proteins Hijack Crops’ Cellular Plumbing

V. Joseph Hotz, Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics, Tyson Brown, WLF Associate Professor of Sociology and Naomi N. Duke, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Sociology are part of a team of researchers that have received a five-year, $25.3 million National Institute on Aging (NIA) award. The award will address gaps in the understanding of potential risks for Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD). Hotz, Duke and Kathleen Mullan Harris and Krista M. Perreira at the… read more » about Duke and UNC Multidisciplinary Team Awarded $25.3 Million to Study Alzheimer’s Disease

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) revealed its allocation of $41.3 million in grants, benefiting 280 humanities projects throughout the nation. Two Trinity College of Arts and Science Faculty are recipients of the grant. Jocelyn Olcott Jocelyn Olcott’s project focuses on the value of care. (John West/Trinity Communications)  Jocelyn Olcott, Professor of History; International Comparative Studies; and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, was… read more » about Two Trinity Faculty Awarded Grants from National Endowment for Humanities

More than two decades ago, Duke political science professor Peter Feaver and a colleague conducted a national study that found public confidence in the U.S. military was at a historic high, but the support was brittle and the factors driving it were trending downward. Their prediction: Public support for the U.S. military was likely destined for a significant decline. Their argument was central to one chapter in a book published in September 2001. That same month the deadly al-Qaeda attacks in the United States set in… read more » about Thanks for Your Service: America’s Wide But Hallow Support for the Military