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...
DUHS officials, Gov. Bev Perdue, President Richard Brodhead and dozens of community members gathered Friday afternoon to break ground on a new cancer center.
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.
After he was diagnosed with chordoma, Josh Sommer, a former Duke undergraduate, founded the Chordoma Foundation to support research.
The Climate Action Plan outlines strategies to tackle the biggest campus contributors to carbon output: emissions, energy and transportation.
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.
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.
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.
As Cameron Crazies paint themselves Duke blue for basketball season, freshmen are also embracing another color—green.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
