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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Professor John French on Lula, Former Brazilian President (and the Country's Covid-19 Problem)
Although he left office nearly a decade ago, the man known to millions simply as Lula remains Brazil’s single most influential politician, says John French, Duke professor of history.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Duke's New Dean of Students: How Prince Saved My Life
John Blackshear didn’t always have it easy growing up.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: The Duke Compact: A Pledge to keep each other safe
Pledge articulates behavioral expectations for all students, faculty and staff. The Duke Compact, which arrives in the inboxes of all Duke faculty, staff and students today (Tuesday), is a pledge to commit to far more than just ourselves as the fall semester begins.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Bringing Duke buildings back to life
Normally, Crystal Sheffield would have had her hands full right now overseeing summer renovation projects and other administrative tasks that come with the end of a fiscal year and preparing for the start of a fall semester.Duke Law School Associate Dean Crystal Sheffield. Photo courtesy of Duke Law School.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Graduate student's mutant zebrafish reveals evolutionary history
Single-letter change in DNA also makes the fish a useful model for human spinal defects
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Changing their summer plans, Duke Ph.D students find new options for virtual employment
Provost’s Office coordinates a wide range of summer funding opportunities, including fellowships with RTI International
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Closer threats inspire a more primitive kind of fear
Your brain handles a perceived threat differently depending on how close it is to you. If it’s far away, you engage more problem-solving areas of the brain.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Living while black: Raw discussions on race at duke and in america
Living while black: Raw discussions on race at duke and in america
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Duke Scholars Examine Protest and Police Conduct
Duke Scholars Examine Protest and Police Conduct
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Virtual Reality Blood Flow Simulation To Improve Cardiovascular Interventions
Virtual Reality Blood Flow Simulation To Improve Cardiovascular Interventions
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Undergrads Go the Distance to Design for Garmin
ME students used 3D printers to develop oversize prototypes in a rainbow of colors to work the bugs out of their designs. Then they reduced them to meet the specifications spelled out by Garmin.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: COVID-19 Engineering Response Team Assembles from Every Corner of Duke.
Through strong networks connecting students, faculty and staff across Duke University and Duke Health, a dedicated team has mobilized to engineer solutions to problems created by the pandemic
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: ‘CovIdentify’ Pits Smartphones and Wearable Tech Against the Coronavirus
New Duke research study seeks volunteers to provide data from smartphones, smartwatches and health surveys to help detect COVID-19.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Duke joins first national effort to test a potential COVID-19 therapy
Duke University Hospital has joined the first national study to test a potential therapy for COVID-19, giving hospitalized adult patients with significant symptoms an option to participate.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: To Make Ultra-Black Materials That Won’t Weigh Things Down, Consider the Butterfly
Some butterflies have ultra-black wings that rival the blackest materials made by humans, using wing scales that are only a fraction as thick. Here’s how they do it.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: "Cervical Cancer Revolution” Proposal Among Top 100 for MacArthur $100 Million Grant
Duke biomedical engineer Nimmi Ramanujam's plan aims to close the cervical cancer inequity gap and catalyze a new model of women-centered health care.
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DUKE UNIVERSITY: Historic $261 Million Distribution to benefit Education, research, financial aid at Duke
Historic $261 Million Distribution to benefit Education, research, financial aid at Duke