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Academics
Politics, History and the Beautiful Game
April 3, 2018How a Duke scholar uses soccer as a prism to teach about politics, history and culture.
Research
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...
Arts & Humanities
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 ...
Arts & Humanities
Kate Bowler: Things We Learn in the Dark
February 5, 2018In her new memoir and podcast, Kate Bowler brings empathy, intelligence and even humor to life’s darkest moments.
Arts & Humanities
The Duke Arts Renaissance
January 23, 2018In March 2011, renowned composer Steve Reich spent an evening at a downtown Durham watering hole discussing his newest work, which would premiere late...
Global
The Long Arm of OPEC
September 11, 2017By limiting production in member countries, OPEC drove up oil production costs and reshaped the world’s oil industry.
Academics
Building Better Cathedrals
August 14, 2017How art history scholar Caroline Bruzelius used technology to create and improve her iconic Gothic cathedrals course.
Research
Exploring Earth’s Inner Space in a Submarine
August 2, 2017Two-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...
Arts & Humanities
Cracking the Code: How a Duke Historian Discovered an Architect of the ‘Radical Right’
June 26, 2017From the outside, nothing about Buchanan House advertises its importance. The two-story 1920s clapboard perches on the wooded edge of the George Mason...
Global
Research from a New Point of View
April 17, 2017To get some overhead images while doing archaeology field work several years ago, Katherine McCusker rigged a camera to a weather balloon attached to ...