https://today.duke.edu/ en Tue, 19 Nov 2024 23:31:36 -0500 Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:53:07 -0500 https://today.duke.edu/2024/11/duke-senior-jenna-smith-wins-rhodes-scholarship <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>Duke University senior Jenna Smith was among the 32 recipients selected this weekend for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, chosen from among 865 applicants across the U.S. after receiving the nomination of their university.</p><p>Recipients are selected based on academic achievement, personal integrity, leadership potential and a commitment to service. The scholarship provides all expenses for two years of study at the University of Oxford.</p><p>“</p></div> Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/11/duke-senior-jenna-smith-wins-rhodes-scholarship Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:53:07 -0500 Duke Today Schools Feed Awards and Honors|International Comparative Studies|Office of University Scholars and Fellows|students, undergraduate|Trinity College of Arts & Sciences https://today.duke.edu/2024/11/left-black-video-series-wins-gold-davey-award <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-columns-25-75"><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-25"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-75"><p></p></div></div> Left of Black https://today.duke.edu/2024/11/left-black-video-series-wins-gold-davey-award Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:31:15 -0500 Duke Today Schools Feed African and African American Studies|Awards and Honors|Faculty|John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute|Race & Equity|Trinity College of Arts & Sciences https://today.duke.edu/2024/10/joesph-heitman-elected-national-academy-medicine <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-columns-25-75"><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-25"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-75"><p></p></div></div> School of Medicine https://today.duke.edu/2024/10/joesph-heitman-elected-national-academy-medicine Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:43:37 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Awards and Honors|Faculty|Molecular Genetics and Microbiology|School of Medicine https://today.duke.edu/2024/09/recognize-exceptional-staff-and-faculty-contributions-2025-presidential-award-nomination The Presidential Awards are among the highest honors given to Duke to staff and faculty Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/09/recognize-exceptional-staff-and-faculty-contributions-2025-presidential-award-nomination Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:48:54 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Awards and Honors|Faculty|HR|President|Staff https://today.duke.edu/2024/07/forbes-names-duke-university-and-health-system-among-americas-best-employers-women-2024 Health System ranks 151 and the University 233 in the annual list of top workplaces for women Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/07/forbes-names-duke-university-and-health-system-among-americas-best-employers-women-2024 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:05:09 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Awards and Honors|Diversity|Faculty|HR|Staff https://today.duke.edu/2024/07/duke-mathletes-stand-out-crowd <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-columns-25-75"><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-25"><p></p></div><div class="wp-block-dt-utility-col-75"><p></p></div></div> Duke Research Blog https://today.duke.edu/2024/07/duke-mathletes-stand-out-crowd Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:32:14 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Awards and Honors|Mathematics|students, undergraduate|Trinity College of Arts & Sciences https://today.duke.edu/2024/05/sullivan-award-honoring-three-who-aid-others-duke-and-community <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>When he arrived at Duke four years ago as a first-year student in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Elaijah Lapay said he had no idea of what would happen next, but he knew he needed to do something of value.</p><p>As he now prepares to graduate, Lapay leaves with a record of service that has helped address local issues of food insecurity and access to health care for migrant workers. For his leadership and selfless services to others, Lapay recently joined two others at Duke in receiving the</p></div> Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/05/sullivan-award-honoring-three-who-aid-others-duke-and-community Thu, 02 May 2024 15:58:44 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Awards and Honors|Civic Engagement|Durham & the Region|Faculty|Race & Equity|Sanford School of Public Policy|students, graduate and professional|students, undergraduate|Trinity College of Arts & Sciences https://today.duke.edu/2024/04/two-faculty-three-trustees-elected-american-academy-arts-sciences <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>Historian Thavolia Glymph, cell biologist Cagla Eroglu and three Duke University trustees are among the 250 prominent scholars, artists and leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Wednesday.</p><p>Trustees Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc.; and Grant Hill, investor and philanthropist with Hill Ventures Inc. were also elected, as was Duke alumna Melanie Matchett Wood, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, a leading</p></div> Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/04/two-faculty-three-trustees-elected-american-academy-arts-sciences Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:29:16 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Awards and Honors|Cell Biology|Faculty|History|School of Medicine|Trinity College of Arts & Sciences https://today.duke.edu/2024/04/two-sanford-faculty-named-distinguished-professors <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>Sanford faculty members Nicholas Carnes and Kristin Goss have been named Duke distinguished professors, effective July 1.</p><p>Carnes will be the Z. Smith Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Public Policy. In 2021, he received the Alan T. Waterman Award from National Science Foundation, the U.S. government’s highest honor for an early career scientist or engineer.</p><p>Carnes joined the Duke faculty in 2011. As professor of public policy and political science, Carnes’s groundbreaking research</p></div> Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/04/two-sanford-faculty-named-distinguished-professors Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:16:43 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Awards and Honors|Faculty|Public Policy Studies|Sanford School of Public Policy https://today.duke.edu/2024/04/darity-receives-leading-award-american-economic-association <div class="wp-block-dt-story-meta-plus-text"><p>Pioneering Duke economist William “Sandy” Darity, arguably the nation’s leading authority on reparations for Black American descendants of slavery, has been named <a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/distinguished-fellows/sandy-darity">a 2024 Distinguished Fellow</a> by the American Economic Association (AEA), officials with the university’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity,</p></div> Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/04/darity-receives-leading-award-american-economic-association Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:25:03 -0400 Duke Today Schools Feed Awards and Honors|Economics|Faculty|Politics & Public Policy|Public Policy Studies|Sanford School of Public Policy