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Shaking Off Outmoded Ideas On Race
The racial divisions that so permeate American society are not rooted in biology, a group of scholars agreed Wednesday at a public forum on race. The event, “RACE: Past, Present and Future,” featured...
Predicting Sleep Quality with the Brain
For undergraduates, sleep can be as elusive as it is important. For undergraduate researcher Katie Freedy, Trinity ’20, understanding sleep is even more important because she works in Ahmad Hariri’s...
How Small is a Proton? Smaller Than Anyone Thought
The proton, that little positively-charged nugget inside an atom, is fractions of a quadrillionth of a meter smaller than anyone thought, according to new research appearing Nov. 7 in Nature. Haiyan...
In Their Own Words: Celebrating a Decade of DEMAN
Students and alumni reflect on their experiences at the 10th Annual Duke Entertainment, Media & Arts Network (DEMAN) Weekend on November 1–2, 2019. Read comments, see social media posts, watch...
Across the Atlantic: Caribbean Music and Diaspora in the UK
According to Professor Deonte Harris, many of us here in the U.S. have a fascination with Black music. But at the same time, we tend not to realize that it’s. . . well, Black music. Harris,...
This A.I. Birdwatcher Lets You ‘See’ Through the Eyes of a Machine
It can take years of birdwatching experience to tell one species from the next. But using an artificial intelligence technique called deep learning, Duke University researchers have trained a...Faculty Achievements
Fall Books: Clean Hands, Aging Brains, Evangelical Women and Other Great Reads
The exploration the public lives of the “first ladies” of America’s Christian evangelical megachurches and an intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life in Appalachia are among the new...
Prestigious Packard Fellowship Supports Duke Cosmologist in Answering Questions About What Makes Up the Universe
If you ask Duke assistant professor Dan Scolnic what amazes him about cosmology, he’ll say, it’s “really the only field in all of science where you could stand in front of people and say, ‘we...
Duke's Jenny Tung Wins $625k MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant
A Jenny Tung Reader Professor Tung’s pathbreaking research on primate genetics and behavior has been the subject of numerous stories. Here’s several of the leading articles: Science News of...
Rong Ge Receives 2019 NSF Career Award and Sloan Fellowship
A banner year for Rong Ge, Duke University Assistant Professor of Computer Science, in 2019 he has received both a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National...In the Media
What Is White America?
Duke Political Science Professor Ashley Jardina's study discussed in article regarding race and the 2016 presidential election. Read the full article on Foreign Affairs.
The Two Catholicisms: The church between tradition and modernity.
Duke historian James Chappel's book, Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church, is discussed in Princeton professor's article regarding the catholic...
Mathematicians Cut Apart Shapes to Find Pieces of Equations
New work on the problem of “scissors congruence” explains when it’s possible to slice up one shape and reassemble it as another If you have two flat paper shapes and a pair of scissors, can you...