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Growing Your Own Mushrooms Is Easier Than You Think, Thanks to Workshops at...
The Duke Campus Farm typically sees more visitors than usual on Fridays, when it holds Community Work Days and welcomes students, faculty, and community members to help run tasks and learn more about...
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Could Restoring Forests Reduce Disease Risk? A Case Study of Hantavirus in...
Forests and farmland meet in the SAVA region of northern Madagascar. New research suggests that wildlife-human interactions in such areas could spread disease. Credit: James Herrera, Duke Lemur Center...
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Meet the Scientists Conserving Sharks & Sea Turtles in Latin America
I had just spent the weekend at the Duke Marine Lab, listening to my classmates discuss solutions to the shrinking population of a critically endangered porpoise species. So when I attended the March...
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This Entrepreneur Is Changing the Way We Repair the Human Body
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Or should I say, January 23 at the Rubenstein Arts Center…? That is where biomedical engineer Nina Tandon showed us the almost magical, yet extremely...
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Invincible Insect Pests Don’t Faze This Researcher
“My passion for what I do saved my life.” Meet Ke Dong, a biology professor at Duke University. She’s a lover of nature, a great cook, and a Lupus survivor. About 20-25 years ago, she developed Lupus...
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The Dukies Cited Most Highly
The Web of Science ranking of the world’s most highly-cited scientists was released this morning, telling us who makes up the top 1 percent of the world’s scientists. These are the authors of...
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Come Meet Some of Your Very Oldest Relatives Right Here in Durham
A few blocks from Duke’s East Campus, there is a small building whose past lives include a dentist office, a real estate office, and a daycare. Now it is a museum. With over 35,000 specimens, the Duke...
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From Immune Responses to Private Equity, New Series Offers “Research On Tap”
On every third Thursday of the month, Devil’s Krafthouse is host to Research on Tap: a series that gives Duke researchers, from undergraduates to postdoctoral fellows, the opportunity to present their...
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“Communicating at the Speed of Science”: Can preprints make science more...
Richard Sever, Assistant Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in New York and Executive Editor for the Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives journals. Sever spoke at Duke about the benefits of...
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Working Toward “Interspecies Flourishing”: Food Sovereignty in the Catawba...
From left: Courtney Lewis, Roo George-Warren, and Aaron Baumgardner at a Duke Gardens panel about food sovereignty. “Larger mainstream society is so removed from their food,” says Courtney Lewis, a...
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We Are Killing Birds. Solutions Exist. Research Can Help.
Look at the nearest window. What did you see first—the glass itself or what was on the other side? For birds, that distinction is a matter of life and death. A dead red-eyed vireo above the entrance...
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To get a fuller picture of a forest, sometimes research requires a team effort
Film by Riccardo Morrelas, Zahava Production For some people, the word “rainforest” conjures up vague notions of teeming jungles. But Camille DeSisto sees something more specific: a complex...
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Glowing Waterdogs and Farting Rivers: A Duke Forest Research Tour
Jonny Behrens looks for aquatic macroinvertebrates with Duke Forest Research Tour participants. “Who would be surprised if I told you that rivers fart?” Nick Marzolf, Ph.D., went on to explain that...
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Scientific Passion and the Aspirations of a Young Scientist
Note: Each year, we partner with Dr. Amy Sheck’s students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math to profile some unsung heroes of the Duke research community. This is the fifth of eight...
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How Do Animals – Alone or in Groups – Get Where They’re Going?
Note: Each year, we partner with Dr. Amy Sheck’s students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math to profile some unsung heroes of the Duke research community. This is the of fourth eight...
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Inventors, Assemble: The Newest Gadgets Coming Out of Duke
What do a smart toilet, an analog film app, and metamaterial computer chips have in common? They were all invented at Duke! The Office for Translation & Commercialization—which supports Duke...
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Most Highly Cited: 30 for ’23
It’s that most wonderful time of the year: The official list of Clarivate’s Most Highly Cited Scientists came out this morning. Scientists all over the world came racing down the stairs in their PJs...
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The Controversial Birth of American Gynecology
As a woman, I am familiar with the gynecologist. In fact, thinking about it right now, I may need to create an appointment for one soon. However, I am not just a woman; I am a black woman, and in...
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New Blogger Michelle Li: Jokes from 8th Graders and Math
My mom likes to introduce me by telling a childhood story. She’s told the same one for years, but it never fails to crack her up. (Watch out—she will genuinely cry from laughter!) It goes like this: I...
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“Wonders and Realities of the Universe”: Rachel Carson’s Legacy
Rachel Carson was a twentieth-century marine scientist, conservationist, and writer. She is the author of Silent Spring, a groundbreaking book about the dangers of DDT and other pesticides.Photo...
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