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    Duke Revises Policy to Prevent Race-Based Hair Discrimination | Duke Today - 7 month(s) ago

    Published September 26, 2023 All Meta Credits Jack Frederick Working@Duke Writer In her book “New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair,” Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces Black hair in history, culture, and art from enslavement to the present. A professor of African and African American Studies and of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke, Cobb describes how enslaved people suffered through forced head shavings and discusses how Afros worn by the Black Panthers became associated with radical politics.

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      @uche_blackstock I was pleased to see my university adopt this policy: https://t.co/DcwycFubCF

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    What to Expect From COVID This Fall | Duke Today - 8 month(s) ago

    Published September 6, 2023 All Meta Credits Eric Ferreri University Communications DURHAM, N.C. — The COVID-19 virus is the unwanted houseguest who refuses to leave, popping up again and again, each time sending scientists scrambling to develop a new booster to ward it off. And yet, science continues to win the battle, two Duke experts said Wednesday. Speaking to media in a virtual briefing, infectious disease specialist Dr. Cameron Wolfe and David Montefiori, Ph.D., director of the Duke Human Vaccine

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      Very helpful interview with two of Duke’s Covid experts We have around 50 people hospitalized at Duke by Covid (there are around 500 across the state); the booster could arrive as early as tomorrow https://t.co/sThOkoO4PL

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    Designing With DNA - 1 year(s) ago

    DURHAM, N.C. — Marvel at the tiny nanoscale structures emerging from research labs at Duke University and Arizona State University, and it’s easy to imagine you’re browsing a catalog of the world’s smallest pottery. A new paper reveals some of the teams’ creations: itty-bitty vases, bowls, and hollow spheres, one hidden inside the other, like housewares for a Russian nesting doll. But instead of…

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      Designing With DNA https://t.co/6yllKhuWfM https://t.co/DeJPMwA010

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    Watch a Virus in the Moments Right Before it Attacks - 1 year(s) ago

    DURHAM, N.C. — When Courtney “CJ” Johnson pulls up footage from her Ph.D. dissertation, it’s like she’s watching an attempted break-in on a home security camera. The intruder cases its target without setting a foot inside, looking for a point of entry. But this intruder is not your typical burglar. It’s a virus. Filmed over two and a half minutes by pinpointing its location 1,000 times a second,…

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      Researchers have captured the first real-time 3D footage of viruses on the move, right before they hijack a cell! #HLTH2022 #biology https://t.co/FYWIIwKmLT

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    Breast Cancer Survival: Duke Employees Share Their Stories - 2 year(s) ago

    As a medical oncologist with the Duke Cancer Institute, Dr. Gretchen Kimmick is used to meeting with patients who aren’t too far removed from world-rocking news that they have breast cancer. She understands how, for many, the world gets quiet after hearing that diagnosis. The words of caregivers float by. Other thoughts are gone, replaced by the shock and realization that life has changed. “It’s…

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      #Breastcancer survivors discuss the importance of #mammograms via @DukeU https://t.co/6YIXjI2NIZ

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    First-Grade Girls Stick With Science After Pretending to be Marie Curie - 2 year(s) ago

    DURHAM, N.C. — Fake it ‘til you make it is true for children too, it turns out: Young girls embracing the role of a successful female scientist, like Marie Curie, persist longer at a challenging science game. A new study, appearing Sept. 28 in the journal Psychological Science, suggests that science role-playing may help tighten the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)…

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      🧫🧬🔬⚗️🔭🧪 Role models matter https://t.co/ENvPQK2nMv

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    Waiting to Serve: Duke Puppy Kindergarten Students Promote the Value of Service Dogs - 2 year(s) ago

    September is National Service Dog Month, and the four new members of the 2022 Duke Puppy Kindergarten have been around the Triangle promoting the value of service dogs. The puppies are part of a National Institute of Health-funded project that tests the cognitive development of puppies from eight weeks old to 20 weeks old, during their last, rapid stage of puppy brain development. The goal of the…

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      🐶🐶🐶🐶 Here is the Fall Class of 2022 @DukeU—our 4 new students in the Puppy Kindergarten The kindergarten is a partnership between Duke researchers & the non-profit Canine Companions, which “created the concept of service dogs nearly 50 years ago” https://t.co/MTNQuKLQ88 https://t.co/CzYqFxS5yw

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