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The Grand Challenge Scholars program has been endowed with a $1 million donation from the family of a late Board of Visitors chair.
Testing conducted last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed four drug-resistant cases of H1N1 influenza at the Duke University Medical Center.
As residents switched the lighting mode of the Home Depot Smart Home from “all-on” to “partay,” partygoers hit the dance floor Friday to celebrate the two-year anniversary of the building’s...
For those tired of the same old conventional medical practices, Duke Medicine is offering an alternative way to address health needs.
60 of Duke's 200 lemurs will move into a $3.2 million, 7,000 sq.-ft. facility surrounded by 10,000 square feet of grounds where they will be able to roam free all year.
The Duke Smart Home Program celebrated the two-year anniversary of its completion of the Home Depot Smart Home Thursday.
The Student Health pharmacy, in its 40th year of operation, will close Dec. 18, Student Health administrators announced Tuesday. Student prescriptions previously filled at the pharmacy will be...
Imagine never having to charge an iPod. Duke researchers have brought this vision closer to reality through developing a device capable of harvesting energy from motion.
DUHS officials, Gov. Bev Perdue, President Richard Brodhead and dozens of community members gathered Friday afternoon to break ground on a new cancer center.
After he was diagnosed with chordoma, Josh Sommer, a former Duke undergraduate, founded the Chordoma Foundation to support research.
Landon Cox, assistant professor of computer science, was recently awarded a $498,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate privacy problems pertaining to online social networks...
Unbeknownst to many, nestled on the edge of Duke’s Medical Campus is a high-security lab that houses numerous contagious viruses.
The Climate Action Plan outlines strategies to tackle the biggest campus contributors to carbon output: emissions, energy and transportation.
A study found that elementary school children performed worse on tests if they were exposed to small amounts of lead as infants.
After just one year as dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, Tom Katsouleas has already started to leave his mark in programs, and in smiles.
A Duke professor is looking for a way to protect at-risk populations from one of the world’s newest and most under-examined pandemics—obesity.
A Duke study showed that 40 minutes after Barack Obama’s presidential win, testosterone levels in male supporters of Sen. John McCain dropped.
As Cameron Crazies paint themselves Duke blue for basketball season, freshmen are also embracing another color—green.
Last Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee became the last of the five Congressional committees with jurisdiction over health care to pass a health care reform bill.
James Reynolds, professor of environmental science and biology, presented the Drylands Desertification Paradigm to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification at its Sept. 21 to Oct. 2...