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Terry Sanford’s great-grandson, Gus, helped unveil the marker that honors Sanford’s life achievements in North Carolina and at Duke. -
Found in lakes and rivers worldwide, single-celled creatures like these Paramecium bursaria can both eat and photosynthesize. Microbes like this play a double role in climate change, releasing or absorbing carbon dioxide -- the heat-trapping greenhouse gas that is the primary driver of warming -- depending on whether they rely on an animal-like lifestyle or a plant-like lifestyle. Credit: Daniel J. Wieczynski. -
The dark spots on the leaves of these tomato plants are a symptom of infection caused by the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. The bacteria spread infection by water-logging the spaces between cells in the plant’s leaves, creating a moist, cozy place to feed and multiply. Credit: Goldlocki, Wikimedia Commons -
Jean-Philippe Gibert is an assistant professor biology at Duke University. -
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2025 Faculty Scholars, clockwise from left: Jorge Mato Frontela, Fletch Rydell, Miguel Cohen Suarez and Trisha Santanam -
Starting June 2, Duke undergraduates will have free, unlimited access to GPT-4o through a new pilot with OpenAI. -
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MBA student Eliza Harrison's expertise spans the full seaweed supply chain – from cultivation and harvesting to processing and product development. She sees seaweed not just as a climate solution, but as a platform for innovation across habitat restoration, carbon capture, animal feed and sustainable materials such as bioplastics. -
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