Duke Study Shows Many Pushing Misinformation on Social Media Want to Cause Chaos
Interview with Hemant Kakkar, assistant professor of management and organizations at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business
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Taking New Aim at COVID-19
The coronavirus’s tangled strands of RNA could offer new ways to treat people who get infected
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Duke Science and Technology is ‘Accepting the Challenge’
Faculty recruitment and retention effort is focused on three main themes
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Fostering Success in Research
Research and Innovation at Duke drove success in fiscal year 2020–21, with more than $1.2 billion in research activity and research expenditures with vendors in 55 North Carolina counties.
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Washington University Microbiologist Named Duke’s Next VP for Research & Innovation
Jennifer Lodge comes from a similar position; will keep her lab
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Art Installation Celebrates the Beauty and Whimsy of Math
Collaborators turn mathematical ideas into art in “Mathemalchemy,” at Duke through Nov. 30
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COVID Vaccine for Kids is Best Protection From Illness, Death
Dr. Emmanuel Walter Jr., a pediatrician and chief medical officer at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, briefs media
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Tiny Microscopic Hunters Could Be a Crystal Ball for Climate Change
Simple measurements of these obscure organisms can help predict future CO2 emissions for warming ecosystems, study finds
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Neuroscientists See How Practice Really Does Make Perfect
Game-time noradrenaline focuses neurons on the one perfect version of a motion
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Cell-Filled Pouch Creates Temporary 'Chimeras' to Treat Disease
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News Tip: Expert Available on Pfizer’s EA Request for Child Vaccine
Dr. Emmanuel Walter, director of the Duke Vaccine and Trials Unit, says vaccine “lead to an excellent immune response in children”
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Black and Hispanic Renters Experience Discrimination in Almost Every Major American City
Reports on a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, co-authored by Duke economics professor Christopher Timmins
The Finance Research Crisis Is All Too Human
Features the work and comments of finance professor Campbell Harvey
Test Developed at Duke Can Quickly Tell Who’s Got Antibodies to Fight Which Coronavirus Variant
Covers Duke research; quotes Dr. Cameron Wolfe, associate professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine
How the Working Poor and Working Class Fared Since the Great Recession
Webinar with professor and economist William Darity Jr., a professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy
One in 44 U.S. Children Diagnosed With Autism, New Data Suggests
Includes comments by professor Geraldine Dawson, director of Duke’s Center for Autism and Brain Development
‘Age Matters’: The Deadly Link between Guns and Young People
Features new research by law professor Darrell Miller and other Duke scholars examining age-based restrictions on access to firearms
Largest-Ever Map of Dark Matter
Features the work and comments of Duke physicist Michael Troxel
Wearable Sensors Could Detect Respiratory Infections Before Symptom Onset
Covers Duke research; includes comments by Ryan Shaw, director of Duke’s Health Innovation Lab, and assistant professor Jessilyn Dunn
The US Needs to Engage Communities Around BIPOC Data
Commentary co-authored by biostatistics professor Warren Kibbe, chief data officer for the Duke Cancer Institute
mRNA Vaccines Changed the Course of the Pandemic. Now, They Could Cure All Kinds of Other Diseases
Quotes Assistant Professor Derek Cain of Duke’s Human Vaccine Institute