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Students and panelists convened Monday night to discuss personal experiences and ways to properly address the problem of racial profiling both in Durham and across the United States.
Seniors Nikolai Doytchinov, Anna Knight and David Robertson have been named finalists for undergraduate Young Trustee.
Donuts may soon be coming to Merchants-on-Points.
Satisfaction Bar and Grill will officially be the next addition to the Merchants-on-Points program.
On the same night that Sushi Love debuted its campus delivery service, local sports bar Satisfaction was introduced as another candidate for Merchants-on-Points delivery.
Sushi Love is the new frontrunner to become the latest vendor added to the Merchants-on-Points program.
Thanks to research by a Duke professor, drugs that have been employed in clinical trials against cancer have found a second use in treating life-threatening malaria symptoms.
As students prepare for Duke-affiliated study abroad this summer, Student Health encourages them to be aware of the benefits and restrictions of their respective insurance plans.
Simple changes to homework assignments based on psychological behaviors can increase students' class performance, according to a study conducted by researchers at Duke and Rice University.
Led by Dr. Anthony So, director of Global Health and Technology Access at the Sanford School of Public Policy, the study aims to help Southeastern Asian governments improve their tobacco control policies. The partnership is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, and researchers are working with the American Cancer Society and the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance. Illicit tobacco, which refers to counterfeit and contraband cigarettes that evade tobacco taxes imposed by the governments, tends to be lower-priced and can directly affect both public health and economies in countries within the region.
The water bottle filling stations manufactured by Elkay are part of an effort to increase sustainability by reducing plastic waste from disposable water bottles. The stations have a display to show how many disposable water bottles users have avoided using through filling their own bottles. The goal of these installations is to guide the University toward becoming carbon neutral by 2024.
As food trucks compete for a spot on campus, members of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee gathered Monday to discuss methods for getting student input on the issue.
Duke University, like many other schools, requires its students to be covered on some form of a health insurance plan. For many students without coverage from a private insurer, the $1,895 insurance fee for Student Blue is an additional payment made towards annual tuition. Although a sizable number of students enroll in the plan each year, some students do not know that in addition to most common medical services, StudentBlue can help subsidize the costs of more complex diagnostics and procedures.
The IOM, which provides healthcare recommendations and scientifically informed analysis on public health care delivery and quality, is widely regarded as a primary adviser to policymakers, health professionals and the public. Dzau, who will be succeeding the current IOM president Dr. Harvey Fineberg, will assume his new position beginning July 1. Dzau said that working with IOM will allow him to help make a difference by tackling critical issues in healthcare and biomedical services on a larger scale.
The Connection Bar, located on the second floor of Gross Hall, offers students and faculty many resources for accomplishing their research goals. The bar is modeled after Apple’s Genius Bars and is staffed by several graduate students throughout the day who can provide detailed assistance on all steps of the research process. Affiliated with the Social Sciences Research Institute, the bar also encourages interdisciplinary cross-talk and aims to help clients across a wide variety of departments.
"The Molecular, Physical, and Artistic Bases of Color" is being taught by three chemistry professors—Warren Warren, Martin Fischer and Adele De Cruz—who all focus on a different aspect of color. The three professors had previously worked together to utilize a laser system, originally used for biomedical imaging, to harmlessly analyze ancient works of art for their molecular compositions. Now, they are each teaching from their respective fields of expertise in an effort to impart an appreciation for the unity between arts and sciences.
Researchers at Duke University have identified a protein crucial in the process of sensing and converting physical strain into cell growth in cartilage tissues, leading to implications towards a cure for arthritis.
Brad Taicher, a Duke Hospital pediatrics anesthesiology specialist, recently operated on seven-year-old Kaelyn Krawczyk and allowed her service dog, JJ, into the operating suite to help monitor her status throughout the surgery. Krawczyk, who is diagnosed with mastocytosis, can suffer from anaphylactic shock in response to the simplest of stimuli, and JJ’s main job is to alert her parents whenever Krawczyk begins to suffer a reaction.
The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee held its last meeting of the semester Monday night to reflect on the changes to dining and the experiences of different vendors.
"Playing Family Feud on the iPad for hours with my cousins before being forced to go to dinner by their parents. We would have kept on going. Laughter kept us from getting hungry.”
