Duke Researchers Are Developing Market and Policy Solutions for Global Energy Access
Access to modern and reliable energy is something that most of the world takes for granted. But many around the world are living a different reality. Across sub-Saharan Africa and India, children often complete homework by the flicker of candles and kerosene lamps as wisps of smoke trickle up around them from the stoking of […]
FHI Seeks Proposals for Story+ Humanities Research Projects
Deadline: November 5, 2018 About the Program Story+ is a six-week summer program that immerses interdisciplinary teams of students, faculty, and staff in humanities research and public storytelling. Story+ promotes inquiry-based learning and vertically-integrated collaboration through projects that may be driven by archival research, oral history, textual analysis, visual analysis, cultural criticism, or other humanistic […]
Bass Connections Invites Proposals for Interdisciplinary Team-based Research Projects
Deadline: November 5, 2018 Bass Connections is now accepting proposals for 2019-2020 team-based research projects that engage faculty, undergraduates and graduate/professional students in interdisciplinary exploration of big, unanswered questions about major societal challenges. Please see the project proposal guidelines. The deadline is November 5 at 5:00 p.m. Projects may be proposed in relation to one […]
The Value of Time Away from the Bench
By Rossie Clark-Cotton, Fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University I love graduate school. I use genetics and cell biology to study the mechanisms by which cells change their shape in response to chemical cues. In any given day, I might delete a gene to learn more about its function, make time-lapse movies […]
Duke Incubation Fund Open to Faculty, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Residents/Fellows
Deadline: September 24, 2018 Purpose The Duke Incubation Fund (the “Fund”) was formed to support idea-stage projects at Duke University. The Fund will make a number of awards each year to support novel ideas, applied research, potential products, nascent services, and creative projects that, if successful, will lead to new opportunities in the market. To […]
Duke University Seeks Next Director of the Social Science Research Institute
Duke University is embarking on a search for the next director of the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI). The director will succeed Tom Nechyba, who has done an excellent job of building and strengthening the infrastructure for social science research and, together with the Information Initiative, has launched an exciting new Master’s degree in data […]
Faculty Can Submit Proposals for Data+ 2019 Student Research Projects
Deadline: November 5, 2018 Data+ is a ten-week summer research experience for undergraduates interested in exploring data-driven approaches to interdisciplinary challenges. Students join small teams and work alongside other teams in a communal environment. They learn how to marshal, analyze, and visualize data, while gaining broad exposure to the field of data science. In Summer […]
Alison Adcock Is Named Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
The Faculty Governance Committee of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS) announced the appointment of R. Alison Adcock, M.D., Ph.D., to the position of director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN). Dr. Adcock’s appointment was made by the committee, in consultation with Duke leadership, including the chairs of the Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral […]