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  1. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    So proud of my grad student ⁦⁩ who successfully defended her PhD today - congrats Dr Bowie and take note world a conservation psychologist is here to help! ⁦⁩ ⁦

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  2. 6 hours ago

    Humans are much heavier than our monkey relatives — even the fittest of humans can have twice the amount of body fat as a typical chimpanzee — and now a Duke team has discovered one possible reason why

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  3. 8 hours ago

    Impossible not to look up

    The wood ceiling of Duke's Brodhead Center
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  4. This weekend at the Reynolds Industries Theater: presents two different programs of dancemaker Paul Taylor's works Details ➡️

    An empty Reynolds Industries Theater
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  5. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    . Professor Adam Wax has re-engineered a 3D-printed spectrometer for his OCT device that offers clinically accurate eye scans at a fraction of the cost.

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  6. Transit routes and parking availability will be adjusted for the Fourth of July holiday —All routes resume regular summer schedules on Friday, July 5

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  7. The Vulci 3000 project focuses on combining archaeology & innovative technology to excavate & understand an ancient Etruscan and Roman site

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  8. Over 300 students from participated in during their undergrad careers For these 20 students, their participation in the interdisciplinary research initiative led to Graduation with Distinction theses ➡️

    Students using a tablet while talking with a woman
    A student in white coat smiling
    Three students smiling outside a purple building
    Four people standing on a small bridge over shallow water
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    Summer mornings are quiet for most of 's campus. But over at , the heat of summer means that hard work can't wait. Go behind the scenes of the gardens' busy morning.

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  10. A new Duke study has identified more than 100 human genes that malaria parasites commandeer during the early stage of the infection These findings could eventually help stop malaria parasites before people get sick & keep the disease from spreading

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  11. In writing for , Duke's dissects the complicated costs of impeachment ✒️⬇️

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  12. Jun 27

    Four weeks in Alaska ✔️ 's one-course program focused on the major-biomes, conservation issues & human-environment interactions of Alaska 🏔️

    Duke in Alaska students smiling
    Four Duke in Alaska students in front of a body of water
    Three Duke in Alaska students on a boat
    Four Duke in Alaska students sitting on a large rock
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  13. Jun 27

    . professor Charles Piot researches the political economy & history of rural West Africa His new book — "The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles" — follows a visa broker in Togo as he helps clients apply for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery program

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  14. Jun 27

    Congratulations to 2019 Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-District All-American Hunter Aitchison

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  15. Jun 27

    .'s Indoor Climbing Wall by the Numbers: 🔹 1,400+ square feet of climbing surface 🔹 35-foot wall 🔹 11 ropes 🔹 $0 for available climbing shoes, harnesses & belay devices More ➡️

    A climber scaling Duke's indoor rock climbing wall
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  16. Jun 27

    Until August 25, is serving free meals to children under 18 as part of the North Carolina Summer Food Service Program

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  17. Retweeted
    Jun 27

    to this 1986 article abt an increase in the numbers of students with computers in their dorm rooms. Fave sentence: Students' roommates are OK w/ the computers, "although the beeping noise [of the modem] was cited as keeping a roommate awake on occasion."

    First portion of Chronicle article with headline "Students find variety of uses for their computers." The article features a photo of a student in sunglasses with his legs propped on his desk as he types on his computer.
    Second portion of Chronicle article, titled "Student purchases, use of computers increasing."
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  18. Jun 27

    Among the thousands of “Whitmaniana” items housed in : A printer’s proof page from the 1881 "Leaves of Grass" edition, riddled with notes all in Walt Whitman’s own hand

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    Great to meet Shine Wu, New Zealand's Robertson Scholar for Duke University's Class of 2023. What an exceptional young person with fantastic prospects for the future!

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  20. Jun 27

    Duke committed to in 2003 & just signed a long-term lease to maintain offices at the former tobacco company through 2030

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