James B. Duke created The Duke Endowment, with Duke University as the principal beneficiary. The Duke Endowment has awarded the university and health system hundreds of significant grants in the last century.
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Brittle stars may lack a brain, but that doesn’t stop them from learning, Duke researchers report. Credit: Julia Notar
November 26, 2023
Charles Nunn’s Unexpected Journey to Becoming an Evolutionary Biologist
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Participants tracked a green dot on a screen while researchers listened to the sounds made in their ear canals using microphone-embedded earbuds (Meredith Schmehl/Duke University).
November 20, 2023
Plastic Nanoparticles Linked to Parkinson’s, According to Duke Study
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November 16, 2023
Meet the New Faculty Strengthening Duke’s Work on Climate Change
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November 15, 2023
New Political Science Faculty Member Offers Up Food for Thought
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November 14, 2023
Dance Professor Michael Kliën Asks That We Not Dance
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November 14, 2023
Community Collaboration Takes Aim at Failing Septic Systems and Environmental Injustice
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November 12, 2023
Five Decades of Creating History and Pushing Boundaries at Duke Computer Science
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November 10, 2023
Combating Veterans ‘Deaths of Despair’
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November 9, 2023
New Yorker Writer Peter Hessler Speaks about Reporting in China and Egypt, Nov. 9 & 10
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November 8, 2023
New Physics Faculty Member’s Big Thoughts on How the Universe Will End
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