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Eric Spana to Speak at Wizard World March 15
March 05, 2015
Assistant Professor of the Practice Eric Spana will speak on March 15 at the Wizard World convention in Raleigh. His topic is "Harry...
Joanna Rifkin garners two awards
March 03, 2015
Joanna Rifkin, graduate student in the Rausher lab, has been awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement grant to extend her studies...
Bio Grads Lead Professional Development Class
February 19, 2015
It's a fact: only 10 to 20% of biomedical and basic science Ph.D.s find careers in academia. Recently the Graduate School offered funding...
JSTOR Daily Features Maggie Wagner's Research
January 20, 2015
Maggie Wagner's work on soil microbes in Idaho has the potential to improve crop yields and address the problem of world hunger. It's a...
Congratulations to Recipients of Sigma Xi Research Grants!
January 16, 2015
Duke University has won eight student research awards from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. This was twice as many as the next...
Alison Hill Receives Paletz Funding
January 09, 2015
Alison Hill has been awarded $2325 through the David L. Paletz Call for Innovative Course Enhancements. Alison requested funding to...
Science Magazine Features Duke Research at Amboseli
January 09, 2015
Science magazine has published a feature on the renowned Amboseli Baboon Research Project, covering its history from the beginning under...
Recent Faculty Publications
December 17, 2014
Congratulations to Biology faculty who have recently published! Susan Alberts et al., "Social affiliation matters: both same-sex and...
Grad Students Win Leakey Foundation Awards!
December 11, 2014
Amanda Lea (Tung/Alberts Labs), Emily McLean (Alberts Lab), and Michael Granatosky (Schmitt Lab) have won Research Grants from the Leakey...
Emily Bernhardt Named a 2015 Leopold Leadership Fellow
December 10, 2014
The Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University has named Prof. Emily Bernhardt one of 20 Leopold Leadership Fellows. The...
Wray et al. Square Up for Debate
December 04, 2014
Greg Wray headed a team that took the "No" position on the question "Does Evolutionary Theory Need a Rethink?" (Nature 514, 161-164, 09...
Botanical Society of America Recognizes Dukies
December 03, 2014
Catherine Rushworth (Mitchell-Olds Lab) has been awarded the J. S. Karling Graduate Research Fellowship for her proposal, "Insights into...
Grad Students Win NSF Dissertation Awards!
November 25, 2014
Erin McKenney, Sheena Faherty (both from the Yoder Lab) and Amanda Lea (Tung/Alberts Labs) have all won Doctoral Dissertation Research...
Biomajor's Research Featured in DukeTODAY
November 13, 2014
Biomajor Jasmine Thompson's research on killifish and environmental toxins is featured in DukeTODAY. Jasmine is working with Richard Di...
In Plain English: Alyssa Perz-Edwards
November 05, 2014
Alyssa Perz-Edwards works far away on East Campus as Assistant Dean for pre-health majors. She works with many students but her special...
In Plain English: Dave McClay
November 05, 2014
How does the embryo build itself? asks Dave McClay. It starts with a single cell containing the complete DNA instructions, but some cells...
Yoder publishes on biodiversity in Madagascar
October 15, 2014
Anne Yoder and former postdoc Jason Borwn (CCNY) have published "A necessarily complex model to explain the biogeography of reptiles and...
The Camel Gets its Plaque
September 24, 2014
On Monday the 22nd of September the Biology Department dedicated a plaque in honor of Knut Schmidt-Nielsen at the statue of Knut and the...
Sherwood Lab Featured in ScienceNews
September 22, 2014
ScienceNews recently featured research from David Sherwood's Lab on invadopodia, foot-like cell protrusions characteristic of metastatic...
Katia Koelle One of Popular Science's "Brilliant Ten"
September 22, 2014
Popular Science has selected Katia Koelle as one of their "Brilliant Ten," which features ten of the "brightest young minds reshaping...
In Plain English: John Mercer
August 11, 2015
Before going to college John Mercer joined the Navy. See the world! Experience life! After much training John became a reactor operator...
In Plain English: Paul Magwene
August 11, 2015
Deep in the darkest recesses of a cell something determines its fate: How will it react to food or famine? Should it grow and divide? ...
In Plain English: Chantal Reid
June 29, 2015
Chantal Reid is excited about teaching “How Plants Feed and Fuel the World.” She and Jim Siedow have taught it before, but this time is...
In Plain English: Zhen-Ming Pei
June 29, 2015
Zhen-Ming Pei wants to understand how plants sense basic aspects of their environment: salt, temperature and most of all, water. They do...
In Plain English: Alec Motten
August 11, 2015
Alec Motten is excited about bioluminescence—live creatures that glow in the dark. The lab for Organismal Diversity gives him an excuse to...