Social Sciences

businessmen walking upwards on stairs

February 19, 2023

The Unintended Consequences of Being Called a Hero

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Yuansi Chen, assistant professor of Statistical Sciences (left), and Kevin Welsher, associate professor of Chemistry, are Duke’s 2023 Sloan Research Fellows

February 16, 2023

Two Trinity Faculty Named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows

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Christopher Bail standing in front of a backdrop of social media logos

January 19, 2023

Resetting America’s Partisan Digital Divide

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graphic of people tipping Congress building over the edge

January 12, 2023

Explaining What the House’s New Rules Mean for This Congress

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Jonathan McDowell in "Said@Duke" block with text: here's no equivalent of air traffic control, which says satellite A move up satellite B move down. And we need to get to that, and I think the first way to get to that is just to have a space situational awareness agency.

December 22, 2022

Said@Duke: Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell on Regulating Outer Space

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Mary Frances Luce, Ph.D., Robert A. Ingram Professor of Business Administration, Interim Exectuive Vice Chancellor for Duke Kunshan University and Associate Vice President for Research & Innovation

December 5, 2022

New Associate VP Named to Oversee Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

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Dr. Colin Cannonier and his poster

November 29, 2022

COVID Education Helped Communities

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NSF and American National Election Studies

November 2, 2022

Federal Funding in Action: Sunshine Hillygus and National Voting Studies

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The eight new faculty members joining the Department of Economics in 2022 include (clockwise from bottom left) Laura Pilossoph, Nelson Sá Anna Bykhovskaya, Jeffrey DeSimone, Michael Pollmann Emily Cuddy, Ellen Meade and Gregor Jarosch. (John West/Trinity

October 29, 2022

Economics' New Faculty Take a Multifaceted Look at Real-World Problems

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Hede Lee

October 29, 2022

Hedy Lee: Better Measures For Old Problems

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Christopher Buccafusco

October 25, 2022

Christopher Buccafusco: Bold Thinking on Intellectual Property Law, Creativity and Happiness

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Tyson Brown, right, had regular one-on-one meetings with President Vincent Price.

September 27, 2022

Tyson Brown’s Year of Exploring Duke Leadership

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Tsitsi Jaji shares ideas with Mellon-Mays undergraduate fellows during the group’s last spring meeting. Photo by Jared Lazarus

September 13, 2022

Mellon-Mays Fellows: Building Opportunities for Students, Diversity in the Academy

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Brianna Tuscani, in TeachHouse

September 6, 2022

Duke TeachHouse: A Model for Supporting North Carolina Education

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sunset in Madagascar

August 29, 2022

It Takes a Village: Conservation and Research in Rural Madagascar

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The interdisciplinary team of researchers aims to understand what factors turn a local outbreak into a global pandemic by focusing on human connections at a local, regional and global scales. (Nunn et al.)

August 25, 2022

Duke Team Awarded $1 Million to Predict the Next Pandemic

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