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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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