Events featuring, clockwise from top left, the Ciompi Quartet, the Jazz Vespers, Duke's inventors, the Chinese Music Ensemble and the first-person account of life as an enslaved scholar can be found at Duke this month.
The many trees on Duke's campus, such as these on East Campus, helped it earn a Level II Arboretum certification from ArbNet. Photo courtesy of Duke Marketing and Communications.
Duke women's basketball coach Kara Lawson once told her team to "handle 'hard' better," and a Duke Assistant Research Professor of Mathematics took the advice to heart. Photo courtesy of Duke Athletics
Clinical Nurse Deb Davis is the first person many patients and their family members meet when they arrive at Hock Family Pavilion. She asks some variation of, "If we can give you anything, what would it be?" Photo by Travis Stanley
Vice President for Duke Human Resources Antwan Lofton speaks to Duke staff and faculty gathered at the 2025 Night of Duke Stars celebration. Photo by Brian Mullins Photography
Clockwise from top left: Shelly Currie, Blake Wilson, Kim Ross, Quinn and Jamie Mills and Barton Haynes have advanced, or been helped by, Duke's biomedical research.
Managing uncertainty means paying attention to your reactions to reduce anxiety and frustration, says Duke Personal Assistance Service (PAS) counselor Eric Chaiken. Photo by Unsplash
Heather, at left, and I hike on Oct. 18, 2024, in Scottsdale McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale, Arizona. I look at this photograph and wonder: was this the day she inhaled that fungus spore?