Education & Classroom Learning

February 17, 2020

Duke Medical Student Jenna Armstrong Named Gates-Cambridge Scholar

Read

Emily Klein, professor of earth and ocean sciences, and Josiah Knight, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, work with students from the Bass Connections project team “Energy andthe Environment: Design and Innovation.”

January 27, 2020

$5 Million Gift Will Support Bass Connections Program

Read

A whimsical retro postcard from the future.

January 9, 2020

A Crystal Ball for the Decade Ahead

Read

The scissor-lift safety device design team with their prototype across the street from where Skanska is constructing Duke's newest engineering building.

January 6, 2020

First-Year Students Engineer One Solution for Construction Worker Injuries

Read on Pratt School of Engineering

Top row, left to right: Amanda Frederick, Fateria Johnson and Erin Hull. Bottom row, left to right: Ron Evans, Anne Marie Adiletta and Anand Chowdhury. Illustrations by Chris Williams. Photography by Alex Boerner

January 6, 2020

10 Duke Career Tips for 2020

Read

Premature newborns often require a tracheostomy to help them breathe on their own, which involves inserting a trach tube and securing it with a trach tie. However, if the tie is too loose the tube will fall out and if it’s too tight the infant has trouble

December 10, 2019

Engineering Solutions for Puffins, Nurses and More!

Read on Pratt School of Engineering

When Tom Schultz learned about the Duke Campus Farm, a working farm in Duke Forest where students can volunteer to plant and harvest sustainably grown produce, an idea grew.

December 6, 2019

Nicholas Students Learn About Aquafarms Through Oystering

Read on Nicholas School of the Environment

Five From Duke Named Schwarzman Scholars

December 3, 2019

Five From Duke Named Schwarzman Scholars

Read

Anya Parks ’21, left, is grateful for the creation of Duke’s first testing center. She is with Whitney Bronson, the testing center coordinator.

November 27, 2019

New Testing Center to Help Students Needing Accommodations

Read

"Students bring so much creativity, so much passion" to the classroom. Using that creativity is an essential part of good teaching.

November 8, 2019

Five Things to Know About Great Teaching

Read

Said@Duke: "I don’t think people change their views, but change their view of the other side." -- Ciaran O'Connor. Better Angels

November 1, 2019

Said@Duke: Better Angels' Ciaran O'Connor on Depolarization

Read

Antoine Toffa (second from left), founder of TamTam Digital School, takes a photograph with students in front of the building that houses the school in Lomé, Togo. Photo courtesy of Antoine Toffa

October 24, 2019

Togo’s First Digital School Partners with Duke Online Learning

Read on Duke Global

Former Duke student Dillon Leovic, right, takes an eighth grade classroom from Little River K-8 on a tour of campus during last year's Duke-Durham School Days. Photo by Jared Lazarus.

October 14, 2019

Employee Volunteers Needed for Duke-Durham School Days

Read

Sonali Biwas and Michael Rosamilia

October 1, 2019

'There Has Been Burnout as Long as There Have Been Doctors'

Read on Magnify magazine

A still from the interactive presentation on the streets of Venice.

October 1, 2019

Senses of Venice: Lavish Parties, Great Conversations and Lots of Canals

Read

Duke engineering students participate in a session of Thrive (EGR 79S) with instructor David Pittman (center).

September 18, 2019

New Course Helps Pratt First-Year Students Develop Skills to Thrive in School and in Life

Read on Pratt School of Engineering