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North Carolina universities charging more in 2022-23 school year
College tuition fees rose 3% in North Carolina in the 2022-23 school year, according to the latest disclosure from the National Center for Education Statistics.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Governor Cooper visits Duke University School of Medicine
On Monday, Governor Roy Cooper visited the Duke University School of Medicine to tour the COVID-19 vaccination area.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Hayes Heads to the Pentagon
MEMS PhD student wins coveted new internship advising staff of the Joint Chiefs on science and technology
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Here: Continue to Practice Safety Precautions
Duke Health has started vaccinating health care workers at high risk for COVID-19 and plans to begin vaccinating patients at high risk in the early months of 2021.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Caring for Duke's Canopy
On a foggy October morning , Duke Landscape Services’ Superintendent of Tree Management Roger Conner met a tree service team to begin a day of examining some of the most treasured pieces of campus.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Mine Ponds Amplify Mercury Risks in Peru’s Amazon
The proliferation of pits and ponds created in recent years by miners digging for small deposits of alluvial gold in Peru’s Amazon has dramatically altered the landscape and increased the risk of mercury exposure for indigenous communities and wildlife, a new study shows.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Making the Most of a Virtual Start to be Held December 2
Duke Law Class of 2020 alumni are invited to this special program featuring Duke Law alumni sharing their advice and perspective on how to successfully start a new job and launch your career in a virtual setting.
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From Durham Reporter
Duke student-athletes remain 'really focused' to help community even in time of pandemic
Duke University's student-athletes are still reaching out to the Durham, North Carolina, community even as their volunteer work has changed in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Relating Traits to Electrophysiology Using Factor Models
The Statistical Science Department encourages all to attend the defense of this dissertation.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Long Night Against Procrastination at Home: Part 3
Like most things, the Long Night Against Procrastination is going virtual this year!
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Introducing Engineering Concepts in a Pandemic
EGR 101 may look a little different in a pandemic, but first-year students are still learning a lot about fundamental engineering skills
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Duke Researchers to Monitor Brain Injury with Machine Learning
Neurologists and electrical engineers at Duke University are teaming up in an ambitious effort to develop a better way to monitor brain health for all patients in the ICU.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Using Invisible Light To See Deeper Into The Brain
This high-resolution photoacoustic and fluorescent image of a mouse brain shows the brain’s oxygenation from green (veins) to red (arteries) and the neural activation region is purple.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Coronavirus Conversations: On The Ground: Inside the COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Co-Hosted with the Duke Global Health Institute, the Harvard Petrie-Flom Center For Bioethics, and the Yale School of Public Health.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Fitting in Your Genes
Both cholesterol and triglycerides are essential lipids, but when they accumulate in our bodies, they cause diseases like heart disease and fatty liver disease. While diet and exercise are the most important factors, genes offer clues, too.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: School of Medicine welcomes science and technology recruits
In alignment with Duke University’s commitment to advance science and technology research, the School of Medicine, with support from The Duke Endowment, has recruited four new faculty members with wide-ranging expertise in infectious disease, immunology, genomics, and neurobiology.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: How Contact Tracing Keeps Duke's Covid Response Nimble and Effective
In the weeks following the return of Duke students to campus this fall, a comprehensive plan that involved robust testing, reduced the campus residential population and reconfigured classrooms and public spaces for physical distancing kept positive numbers low and the campus safe.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Scholars Examine Duke’s History of Unequal Medical Care for Black People
Conversations on and actions toward making American medicine less racist continue to grow. At Duke, that includes looking at our own history as a hospital and medical center serving a diverse community.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Record Year of Philanthropic Support for Research, Student Support, Teaching and Learning
More than 94,800 donors gave $519 million in gifts in fiscal year 2020, to support financial aid, research, faculty support, education, patient care, campus transformations, and the student experience at Duke.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: 5 Things to Know about Registering to Vote
Registering to vote only take a few minutes and can be done online, by mail or during early voting. It's EASY!