Interview 2.0
One initiative the School of Medicine debuted this month that will also help ease the financial burden for medical school applicants is the Virtual Interview Process.
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One initiative the School of Medicine debuted this month that will also help ease the financial burden for medical school applicants is the Virtual Interview Process.
Amid a national decrease in medical school endowment returns and applications and a rise in the number of uninsured patients, Duke Medicine has remained stable-but cautious-in grappling with the ongoing global financial crisis.
Residence Life and Housing Services will provide students with several new living opportunities for the 2009-2010 school year.
In an economic period when colleges nationwide are facing shrinking endowments and struggling to cut costs, Duke ranks fifth among private universities in the value it offers to students, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given Duke a two-year, $3 million grant to uncover genetic variants among hemophiliacs with resistance to HIV.
With the government grappling with the worst economic outlook since the Great Depression, it seems unlikely that Congress would be willing to reach deeper into its wallet any time soon.
Recognized for his work on personalized medicine and prospective health care, Dr. Ralph Snyderman, chancellor emeritus of health affairs at Duke, will receive the 2008 North American Healthcare Lifetime Achievement Award today.
After years of heading human resource departments at various prominent universities, Kyle Cavanaugh will become Duke's vice president for human resources beginning Feb. 1, 2009, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask announced Wednesday.
Outside rain fell in a steady drizzle, but inside the walls of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, it was thundering.
As parents begin to arrive on campus, the Blue Devils are preparing to greet two more guests in a jam-packed weekend.
Typically, when the price of a good gets too high, people cut back consumption and seek an alternative-what happened when gasoline prices peaked this summer.
In Robert Heinlein's 1961 science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land," an alien coins the term "grok," a concept that embodies both intimate understanding and sympathetic communication. Now, Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, has borrowed the term for the title of his blog about the environment, which officially launched Monday.
In an effort to reduce health disparities in North Carolina, the Duke Global Health Institute has partnered with the N.C. Health and Wellness Trust Fund to create the North Carolina Health Disparities Fellowship Program, which will train public health and social work professionals.
Major surgeries can be sources of nerves or even media hype, particularly when the patient is a prominent figure. But for Dr. Allan Friedman, himself a world-renowned neurosurgeon at the Duke University Medical Center, it is standard procedure.
The Duke Global Health Institute is looking to create an interdisciplinary Master of Science in global health program upon receiving a three-year grant of about $375,000 from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health.
Praised for his scholarship and teaching abilities, Jeffrey Glass, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Hogg Family director of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship, is adjusting his focus to a new position as senior associate dean for education of the Pratt School of Engineering.
This past Saturday, Dr. Wei Jiang, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, left on a trip to China-where she will provide volunteer psychiatric care to earthquake survivors.
Freshmen nervously anticipating their first day of classes were urged to show courage and challenged to change the world by Maya Angelou, an influential leader who gave her 16th annual address at Duke Sunday afternoon.
Ranking in the top 10 for the 19th consecutive year, Duke University Hospital System placed eighth in U.S. News and World Report's list of "America's Best Hospitals," which was released in July.
In college, Sunday brunch serves an essential function-allowing students to openly exchange their walks of shame, drunken hook-ups and emergency room visits of the past weekend.