As part of Duke’s Climate Commitment, the university has prioritized investments in climate-related areas of research where Duke already has momentum:...

The 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...

A world-class team of academic researchers at Duke are working to create the first practical, scalable quantum computer.

One 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...

Scott 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...

We 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...

Scholars across Duke are working to expand humanity’s understanding of the ocean, consistent with the university's mission to seek solutions to the wo...

This year, Duke University welcomes more than 100 new scholars, many hired to build on strengths in fields critical to addressing complex social, heal...

As 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...

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...