In her inaugural year, Barbour hopes to create an environment where all graduate students feel welcome to explore a broader array of careers beyond academia.
Durham is one of the first local North Carolina health departments to receive doses of Jynneos, a vaccine that can prevent illness or lead to less severe symptoms if given within two weeks after someone is exposed to monkeypox, according to a NCDHSS press release.
The one-credit course aims to promote interdisciplinary discourse by bringing in several scholars to teach students about climate change from a variety of perspectives.
The team of researchers from Duke and other universities aims to “make a material that can be super-soft and super-elastic (so that you can reversibly stretch it 100-fold) but also super-tough and hard to break."
The space is designed to promote collaboration between members of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, the School of Medicine and nearby biotech companies as they tackle challenges related to infectious disease research.
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