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For the third time in as many years, Duke earned a B+ on the Sustainable Endowment Institute’s 2010 College Sustainability Report Card, released earlier this month.
Students hoping to split geodes and glimpse marine animals at this year’s Earth Jam may will to wait at least another year. The free, interactive environmental festival that takes place annually in...
Duke is offering a limited amount of injectable H1N1 vaccine to high-risk groups within the Duke community. Priority for the first doses of the vaccine will be given to pregnant University...
Newly published research suggests that spotted hyenas cooperate and solve problems better than primates.
Researchers at Duke Translational Research Institute and Duke Clinical Research Institute have joined to develop a universal antidote for aptamer drugs—medications made of DNA or RNA that bind to...
Although testing has only been conducted on mice, researchers say they may soon have a new way to repair cardiac damage, such as the damage done by a heart attack.
Last Wednesday, 752 students sniffed their way out of swine flu at Student Health’s flu clinic. FluMist, a nasal spray vaccine for the H1N1 strain of influenza, arrived at the Duke University...
Forget Pepto-Bismol. Children can now imagine going down an incredibly long slide or sitting on a cloud or a floating blanket to reduce abdominal pain.
Dr. Michael Merson has been a man on the move in the past few years. After serving as dean of public health at Yale University for a decade, he became the founding director of the Duke Global...
The Duke University Health System recently changed its visitor policy so that only immediate adult family members and designated caregivers are allowed to see patients. The restriction aims to...
Manuel Rosa has spent 18 years researching Christopher Columbus and his voyage to America. The Chronicle’s Jessica Chang spoke with Rosa about his findings and what he has discovered that suggests...
SurroundSense, an application developed by three members of the Duke community, can pinpoint the location of a phone more precisely than current global positioning systems.
A recent study found that global health accounted for more than 7,000 jobs and $508 million in salaries in 2007, making the total impact of global health on the state’s economy somewhere between...
Tim Profeta, director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and a senior associate dean, appeared before the U.S. Senate recently to discuss cap-and-trade systems.
Several top Duke and Singaporean officials gathered Monday for the official opening of the Duke University-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School’s new home, an 11-story medical...
Someone suspected to have psychic healing abilities attempts to wake up a mouse with his mind. Although experiments like this may seem out of place at Duke today, they were not a few decades ago.
University faculty publish research on topics such as color blindness in monkeys and asexual fungus-gardening ants—work that is sometimes overlooked by the general public.
Duke Medical Center’s Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center is teaming up with the Burnham Institute for Medical Research to build a collaborative new research facility in Orlando, Fla.
Five weeks into the school year, the estimated number of H1N1 virus cases on campus is 350, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.
Carolina Parent magazine has ranked Duke University and Health System in its list of the top 50 family-friendly employers in North Carolina.