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Building the Faculty, 2016

Profiles of selected new faculty hires joining Duke University in 2016

Dirk Philipsen

Dirk Philipsen: Choice That Goes Beyond 'Either-Or'

Shambhavi Kaul uses film to explore landscapes and backgrounds that give images meaning. Photo by John Joyner/Duke Photography

Shambhavi Kaul: Bringing Backgrounds to the Foreground

New Moving Image faculty member is already a familiar face at Duke

The 11-minute film “Night Noon” spotlights a desert landscape that should be vaguely familiar to...

For Peter Hoff, statistics is an avenue through which he can learn about different types of science. Photo by John Joyner/Duke Photography

Peter Hoff: Reckoning With Big Data to Tease Out Network Patterns

Duke statistician Peter Hoff finds great...

Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards delivers an address on “Social Class, Black Racial Cohesion and Dissonance” as a part of the Global Inequality Research Initiative Capstone Conference this past November

Keisha Bentley-Edwards: Eliminating Inequalities Through Teaching, Research, Policy & Prevention

Keisha Bentley-Edwards excelled in high school,...

Steve Roady

Steve Roady: A Joint Appointment Tackles Environmental Law and Policy

Tony Jun Huang

Tony Jun Huang: Developing Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies to Improve Health Care

Computer scientist Cynthia Rudin is looking at the next step in artificial intelligence studies ©2016 Kevin Seifert Photography

Cynthia Rudin: Training Computers to Find Patterns That Humans Miss

A few years back, the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts had a problem: Burglaries were on the...

Johann Guilleminot

Johann Guilleminot: Accounting for Variabilities That Matter

Andrew Bragg

Andrew Bragg: Making Sense of Chaos in Environmental Systems

Melanie Manion's research has traced more than 30 years of political and social change in China. Photo by Elisse Carroll Photography

Melanie Manion: A Left Turn to a Career of Scholarship on China

Thanks to a college professor painting a bleak picture for future researchers of China, Melanie...

Michael Tadross

Michael Tadross: Targeting Neuropharmacology with Molecular GPS Technologies

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