The Week at Duke {in 60 Seconds}: World Premiere Concert; Justice Alito; Belief Study

Two Grammy-winning musicians debuted an original jazz-classical composition at Duke, part of the commemoration of the first black students at the university.

Coinciding with the federal government shutdown, Duke Professor Mark Leary is out with a study which finds that people with the most extreme political views are least likely to compromise.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with law students about insights from his career. Alito is teaching a seminar at Duke Law this semester on "Current Issues in Constitutional Interpretation."

A group of faculty and students remembered the late Irish poet Seamus Heaney with a poetry reading of his works in Duke's Goodson Chapel.

This is science. With this image Duke biochemist Michael Boyce captured a key event inside a living cell that helps describe how cells communicate with one another.

Duke faculty are prolific in publishing -- some recent highlights: "Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War," by Professor Margaret Humphreys, and a history of Durham by Professor Simon Partner called "Bull City Survivor: Standing Up to a Hard Life in a Southern City."