Duke hosts 9th annual ‘energy week’
By Muskaan Toshniwal | 3 days agoDuke’s ninth annual Energy Week brought together students, faculty and industry leaders to explore the pressing challenges and opportunities in the energy landscape.
Duke’s ninth annual Energy Week brought together students, faculty and industry leaders to explore the pressing challenges and opportunities in the energy landscape.
The collaboration resulted in $75,000 awards to four pilot projects, each led by faculty from both schools with an expected timeline of 18 months.
Inquisite works similarly to other language models and search engines, such as ChatGPT or Google, but specializes in conducting research on complex topics. Its main appeal is a promise to give users responses generated from trustworthy sources.
The 2024 Innovator Award will cover four years of Ramanujam and her team’s work to reduce the burdens of cancer treatments on patients, particularly ones who do not live near a hospital.
Plunkett's prize-winning project focused on the environmental impact of cyanide processing plants, which operate as a method of extracting gold.
The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart, a device currently undergoing clinical trials, was used in August to keep Donavan Harbison, a resident of Graham, N.C., alive for 10 days while he awaited a heart transplant at Duke University Hospital.
The project — in collaboration with Erasmus University in the Netherlands — is supported by a recent $7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under the Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers contract.
The new Master’s Entry to the Practice of Nursing program is a 16-month pre-licensure program that will prepare students to successfully take the National Council Licensure Examination for registered nurses.
The conference, titled Building a Global Mental Health Community: Research, Policy and Practice Across Disciplines, featured panel discussions, research symposia and a poster session with experts from various disciplines.
The week featured over 600 events across New York City and engaged hundreds of leaders in business, government and academia, as well as members of the general public.
Duke researchers published a study last month analyzing the potential relationship between reported cases of skin cancers in tattooed skin over time, which opened up opportunities for future research to improve patient health outcomes.
Duke’s biomedical engineering department announced the creation of a new Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation that aims to increase student involvement in research to “revolutioniz[e] health care."
The study, conducted in the Sheng-Yang He Lab in the Biology Department and published in Nature Plants Sept. 6, identifies that certain genes code for the composition of a plant’s microbiome and that if these genes are modified, the plant can become unhealthy.
Once completed, the quantum computer could be the first with the ability to outperform classical computers in areas of scientific application.
The event, hosted by student group Sustainable Oceans Alliance in Penn Pavilion, consisted of a student poster session, an alumni panel and a keynote speaker event with Sylvia Earle, Graduate School ‘56 and ‘66.
ERPOs — also known as red flag laws — are civil court orders established in 21 states and Washington, D.C., that temporarily restrict access to guns for individuals at risk of harming themselves or others.
The drug, resmetirom, is a novel treatment for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a common nonalcoholic liver disease linked to obesity.
The study, conducted in the Gladfelter Lab in the Duke School of Medicine, takes advantage of the structural flexibility of intrinsically disordered proteins, explaining a possible mechanism of resilience to disease and climate-change-induced temperature change.
The “historic” program will fund the “hiring and start-up costs” for a senior “luminary” faculty member and four to seven mid-career faculty over the next five years.
As extreme heat events plague communities across the nation, some government officials and Duke researchers are taking steps to help North Carolinians beat the heat.