More than a billion people live in slums worldwide, but major policy initiatives have mostly ignored them. With that number of residents on the rise, one Bass Connections team has spent the last two years exploring why slums are rapidly expanding around the developing world and what this could mean for both political and social […]
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Doctoral Students Receive Grant for Science and Technology Policy
Two Duke University PhD candidates have been awarded a $25,000 grant to study the feasibility of establishing a North Carolina Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program. The California Council on Science and Technology, in partnership with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Simons Foundation, is funding multiple grants to support planning processes for creating […]
Duke to Convene Year-long Sawyer Seminar on Corporate Rights and International Law
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to support interdisciplinary scholarship on the nature of the global corporation From politics to popular culture, the corporation is one of the most critical institutions of the modern era. It’s also one of the most controversial. Do corporations have rights? Are corporations people, societies or even governments? What are their […]
PhD Students Win 2016-2017 Karen L Wrenn Alzheimer’s Disease Travel Prize
The 2016-2017 Karen L Wrenn Alzheimer’s Disease Travel Prize Winners: Caley Burrus: Caley is a PhD student in Neurobiology at Duke. She studies cellular autophagy in neurodegenerative disorders in the laboratory of Dr. Cagla Eroglu. Zachary Monge: Zack is a PhD student in Psychology and Neuroscience who is using a multimodal brain MR protocol to […]
Microbial Supergroup Lead Gets Personal with Gut Check
Duke University’s Lawrence David, Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, shares in Science News about what inspires him in science and life, and how his research into bacterial communities started with a year-long analysis of the microbiomes collected from his own body. David is a lead faculty of a group called the Triangle Microbial […]
New Program to Expand Career Opportunities for Ph.D. Students
Duke is giving humanities doctoral students new career paths Durham, NC – With the help of a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Duke University is creating a program that will enhance the curriculum and expand career opportunities for doctoral students in the humanities. The three-year grant from the NEH will […]
2016-17 Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS) Research Incubator Awards Announced
Eight interdisciplinary research teams at Duke have been selected to receive the 2016-2017 Duke Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS) Research Incubator Awards (five new awards and three continuation awards). The DIBS Research Incubator Awards program is designed to encourage innovative approaches to problems of brain function that transcend the boundaries of traditional disciplines. The award […]
New Grants Support Graduate Students to Pursue Training Outside Their Disciplines
Nineteen graduate students from five schools at Duke have received grants to enhance or expand their training beyond their core disciplines. This new internal funding mechanism from the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies encourages graduate students to step away from their core research and training to acquire additional skills, knowledge or co-curricular […]