A day after being named a James B. Duke Distinguished Professor, sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva gave the second annual Trinity Distinguished Lecture last week, offering thoughts on his 25-year academic career, his research that challenged the foundations of his discipline and the racism he has experienced as a Puerto-Rican black man.
Read MoreData scientist Kristin Stephens-Martinez's well-ordered mind seeks data of all kinds. She has studied over 4,000 students' wrong answers when they predicted the output of code, collected five-years of her own grad school time management data, tracked her caffeine intake since 2013, and now uses an app to track her son's food, diapers, and naps.
Read MoreWhat better way to engage young kids in science than with cool, hands-on experiments? Especially when the reward is a homemade liquid nitrogen cookies-n-cream ice cream that tastes fantastic. Faculty in Duke's Department of Physics have been making kids laugh and learn for decades, and helping elementary, middle and high school teachers along the way.
Read MoreFor most doctoral students, the path forward is clear: industry research career or academic research and teaching career. But Audrey Ellerbee, originally from New York, is considering a different path. And that’s not at all unusual for her.
Read MoreThere's nothing simple about being a good mentor, but biomedical engineer Ashutosh Chilkoti says there is one easy rule: "Learn the individual."
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