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Duke Alum Wins Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Peace and Reconciliation
Duke alumna Katherine Becker, Trinity ’17, has been awarded the Hillary Rodham Clinton Award for Peace and Reconciliation. The award provides a full tuition-fee waiver to an exceptional female...
Ph.D. Students Explore Duke Undergrads’ Mindsets about Intelligence
Intelligent. Clever. Bright. Smart. Odds are many Duke students have heard those words applied to them. Yet, what happens when you take thousands of smart people and throw them onto one campus where...
Malaria Parasite Ticks to its Own Internal Clock
When a person gets malaria, a rhythmic dance takes place inside their body. The disease’s telltale signs -- cyclical fevers and chills -- are caused by successive broods of parasites multiplying in...
Middle class not a level playing field for blacks, new Duke research finds
The “middle class” can be hard to define. A new report from Duke University suggests that for African Americans it’s simply hard to find — and that’s in the best of circumstances. The paper from...
Teaching a Pandemic Course During a Pandemic
“For my first Zoom class, on a Tuesday, I sat at my desk and wore a blazer. By Thursday, I was on my couch and it was just more like having a conversation. My cat even visited — my students asked to...
Poems for this moment
April is National Poetry Month. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, we wondered if Duke’s writers and literature scholars are turning to particular poems right now, perhaps for their beauty,...Faculty Achievements
Two Duke Professors Named Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellows
Merlise Clyde and Jerome Reiter, both professors of Statistical Science, have been named 2020 Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Fellows. Founded in 1935, IMS is a member organization devoted...
Chemist Puts New Spin on Organic Materials
At a very basic level, the digital technologies we depend on everyday operate by manipulating the charge of electrons. But a Duke chemist is searching for materials that would allow engineers to...
Five New Bass Professors Named for Excellence in Teaching and Research
Five Duke professors with demonstrated excellence in research and undergraduate instruction have been selected as the 2020 Bass Fellows. “This moment of crisis has highlighted the importance of...
Duke Guggenheim Fellow Asks What Makes Literature Feel Timely
In 2011, at the unveiling of a highway marker honoring Pauli Murray — the lawyer, priest, civil rights advocate, and Durham native — Helen Solterer began a literary journey through time and place. It...In the Media
Meet the Duke Dean Whose Obsession With 'Star Trek' Landed Him a Gig as Their Next Science Consultant
Like many people during the COVID-19 crisis, Dean Mohamed Noor spends part of every day in virtual meetings. But he makes his Zoom calls a little better by taking them from the bridge of the Starship...
Secrets of the Dead: Building Notre Dame
Caroline Bruzelius, the Anne Murnick Cogan Distinguished Professor Emerita of Art and Art History, appeared as an expert on the PBS show Secrets of the Dead, where she discussed the...
Harris Cooper: Give Parents A Coronavirus Break And Kids An Education Boost -- Add Days To Next School Year
Harris Cooper, Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, argues that schools must add additional days to next year's school calendar and extend each day slightly to make up for classroom time...