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Company founded by Duke professors goes public
By Gautam Hathi | January 14, 2014A pharmaceutical company founded by two Duke professors is making strides in glaucoma treatment.
A pharmaceutical company founded by two Duke professors is making strides in glaucoma treatment.
The Board of Trustees will decide upon the location of the new Student Health and Wellness Center in the next few months.
E.O. Wilson—renowned biologist, researcher and author—is coming to town.
After seven years at the helm of the Nicholas School of the Environment, Dean Bill Chameides will leave the school in a new place—literally.
A new reclamation pond near Erwin Road is expected to lower Duke’s environmental footprint once it is completed next summer.
By examining nail clippings, researchers can now track a subject's exposure to arsenic.
HackDuke—the first 24-hour hack-a-thon at Duke—assembled students and individuals from the American tech community earlier this month, resulting in innovative new technology created in just a day.
A multidisciplinary team from Duke is providing pediatric surgical care and research in Guatemala, where access to medical services is limited.
The Ph.D. Plus program at the Pratt School of Engineering is in the process of becoming an official certificate program.
A new temporary entrance to the Duke Eye Center will benefit patients while construction is ongoing.
The Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology has secured a $15 million grant renewal to continue its research.
Duke’s Research Scholars Program, which connects undergraduate students to research mentors, has drawn both high praise and criticism from its participants.
Two Duke researchers have teamed up to create a neuroscience education initiative with the promise of changing the relationship between research academia and the general public.
A recent article in the “European Journal of Clinical Investigation” identified five Duke researchers among the 400 most influential biomedical scientists in the world based on citation data from...
When senior Allen Hawkes was a freshman, he came up with an idea to harvest energy from cellphone and Wi-Fi signals and put it to use.
Malnutrition is not the only food-related issue in developing countries such as Honduras, Duke researchers have found.
The Affordable Care Act will have little impact on the way Duke manages its health care policies.
Student Health has decided to close its East Campus Clinic in an effort to provide more efficient care for students.
The subject of this story is Suzy Kwetuenda, who is the first native Congolese scientist to ever conduct bonobo research.
Researchers at the University aim to replace the current body-imaging millimeter wave scanners found at airports with machines that can recognize the chemical composition of substances in luggage...