Building a Campus Community of Sustainability
January 18, 2023Duke has been committed to building a culture of sustainability for decades. Efforts to reduce the university’s environmental impact include strategic...
Puppy Kindergarten
November 22, 2021The Duke Puppy Kindergarten is a five-year project funded by the National Institute with the goal of increasing the supply of service dogs by studying...
Duke’s Secret Weapon in the Fight Against COVID-19
November 14, 2020Two by two, Duke employee volunteers are traversing campus to encourage mask wearing and physical distancing. The group of employees, known as the C-T...
‘More Possibilities Than There Are Particles in the Universe’
November 12, 2020A world-class team of academic researchers at Duke are working to create the first practical, scalable quantum computer.
Meet Duke’s new faculty of 2020
October 13, 2020One important thing that hasn’t changed in a semester of the pandemic is the arrival of new faculty members. They come with new ideas, research proble...
A Career in the Arts
May 19, 2020Scott Lindroth’s 13-year tenure as Duke’s first vice provost for the arts will soon conclude. When he started the job, he already had 17 years of facu...
Hip hop comes of age at Duke
April 22, 2020We take a look at two popular Duke courses that trace the evolution and cultural significance of hip-hop – and offer a peek inside those classes durin...
Immersed in the blue economy
January 21, 2020Scholars across Duke are working to expand humanity’s understanding of the ocean, consistent with the university's mission to seek solutions to the wo...
Meet Duke’s newest faculty members in 2019
October 14, 2019This year, Duke University welcomes more than 100 new scholars, many hired to build on strengths in fields critical to addressing complex social, heal...
Faces of the Ruby
January 24, 2019As it celebrates its first birthday, the Rubenstein Arts Center is becoming the campus hub for the creation of art. We tell its story here through the...
Reimagining Medicine
November 26, 2018Dr. Ray Barfield was once broken by physician burnout. Now he's mentoring the next generation of doctors on how to keep their humanity intact — while ...
Reinventing the Toilet
November 5, 2018Duke University has become a hub of research to improve the way the world protects people and water from human waste.
Meet Duke’s Newest Faculty Members
September 18, 2018Fresh ideas drive universities, and one essential source for these are new faculty members across the university. They come at the junior and senior f...
Duke’s biggest, oldest laboratory—past, present and future
August 23, 2018The 7,052-acre Duke Forest became the largest research lab on campus and home to perhaps the longest-running experiment at Duke: an 85-year study into...
Politics, History and the Beautiful Game
April 3, 2018How a Duke scholar uses soccer as a prism to teach about politics, history and culture.
Beyond Materials: From Invisibility Cloaks to Satellite Communications
March 25, 2018Duke-developed “metamaterials” are carefully designed structures that control all sorts of physical waves in previously impossible ways. Our researche...
The Duke Kunshan Experience
March 20, 2018In creating its new campus in Kunshan, China, Duke University had the rare opportunity to build a new faculty and curriculum from scratch. Here’s how ...