Dr. 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 ...

Duke University has become a hub of research to improve the way the world protects people and water from human waste.

Fresh ideas drive universities, and one essential source for these are new faculty members across the university. They come at the junior and senior f...

The 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...

How a Duke scholar uses soccer as a prism to teach about politics, history and culture.

Duke-developed “metamaterials” are carefully designed structures that control all sorts of physical waves in previously impossible ways. Our researche...

In 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 ...

In her new memoir and podcast, Kate Bowler brings empathy, intelligence and even humor to life’s darkest moments.

In March 2011, renowned composer Steve Reich spent an evening at a downtown Durham watering hole discussing his newest work, which would premiere late...

By limiting production in member countries, OPEC drove up oil production costs and reshaped the world’s oil industry.

How art history scholar Caroline Bruzelius used technology to create and improve her iconic Gothic cathedrals course.

Two-thirds of the Earth’s surface - and an untold quantity of its lifeforms - lie hidden beneath the oceans. Yet only a handful of scientific instrume...

From the outside, nothing about Buchanan House advertises its importance. The two-story 1920s clapboard perches on the wooded edge of the George Mason...

To get some overhead images while doing archaeology field work several years ago, Katherine McCusker rigged a camera to a weather balloon attached to ...