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Duke community celebrates Chapel reopening Wednesday
By Sarah Feng | May 11, 2016After being closed for the past year, the Duke Chapel reopened Wednesday in a day-long ceremony.
After being closed for the past year, the Duke Chapel reopened Wednesday in a day-long ceremony.
Duke researchers are shedding light on the role skin cells play in influencing the body's response to external stimuli, opening up possibilities for new drugs to treat acute and chronic itches.
Following student complaints about the ACES interface, the website is being redesigned to be more user-friendly.
A recent study showed that laboratory rats exposed to Beijing's highly polluted air gained weight and experienced cardio-respiratory and metabolic problems.
Discoveries made by Duke researchers may help to explain how B-cells respond after infected by Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), a member of the herpes virus family. The recent study—led by Micah Luftig, Karyn McFadden and Rigel Kishton—found that when running short of the supply of nucleotides and other cell-building materials, a large population of EBV-infected B-cells stop dividing and arrest, or end the cell cycle, after they hit their first period of rapid growth.
Discoveries made by Duke researchers may help explain a developmental disease called microcephaly.
Although physical health problems are accepted as reasons to submit a Short-Term Illness Notification Form, it remains unclear whether STINFs can be used for mental health illnesses.
More emphasis on cultural diversity will be included in the orientation for Duke freshmen, following a review of the existing programs by the Office of New Student Programs.
Transgender youth and their families have a new resource for furthering their mental and physical well-being.
A fox, Kashew Brown, lighted the Brown hall up sweeping off the bad luck of UrineBrown. Several students brought an injured fox, which they found on the left side of the underpass by the Smithware House while walking back from west campus, into Brown residence hall on East campus Sept.