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Leveraging Google’s Technology to Improve Mental Health

Last Tuesday, October 10 was World Mental Health Day. To mark the holiday, the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, in partnership with other student wellness organizations, welcomed Dr. Megan Jones...

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Putting Stronger Guardrails Around AI

AI regulation is ramping up worldwide. Duke AI law and policy expert Lee Tiedrich discusses where we’ve been and where we’re going. DURHAM, N.C. — It’s been a busy season for AI policy. The rise of...

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How Do Animals – Alone or in Groups – Get Where They’re Going?

Note: Each year, we partner with Dr. Amy Sheck’s students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math to profile some unsung heroes of the Duke research community. This is the of fourth eight...

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Computer Science Students Say: Let’s Talk About Microaggressions

Soon after taking a seat in her high-level computer science class, Duke student Kiara de Lande surveyed the room. The realization that she was one of only three women of color washed over her. It left...

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Your AI Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know, According to an Expert

What comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘artificial intelligence’? Scary, sinister robots? Free help on assignments? Computers taking over the world? Pictured: Media Architect Stephen Toback...

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Democracy Threatened: Can We Depolarize Digital Spaces?

“Israeli Mass Slaughter.” “Is Joe Biden Fit to be President?” Each time we log on to social media, potent headlines encircle us, as do the unwavering and charged opinions that fill the comment spaces....

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Navigating the Complex World of Social Media and Political Polarization:...

This February, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments challenging laws in Florida and Texas that would regulate how social media companies like Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) control what posts can...

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Farmers, Crops…and Computers?

In Hanjie the rules are simple. In this game of logic and creativity, the players, often working on medium-sized grids of 225 squares, use numbers on the rows and columns as clues to determine which...

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You Don’t Have to Be a Hacker to Make an Impact in This 24-Hour Coding Sprint

Twenty four hours full of brainstorming, debugging, and caffeine.   Coders of all skill levels came together from February 8-9 to participate in the Code for Good hackathon, an annual event hosted by...

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Making the Case for Data Privacy: Here’s What We’re Up Against

After bringing Data Privacy Day to campus seventeen years ago, Duke faculty Jolynn Dellinger and David Hoffman co-moderated this year’s event at the Law School on January 28. Seated between them were...

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“Flipping the Bird”: What do Audubon’s Paintings and England’s Crown Jewels...

On the first Friday of each month, Duke Libraries will hold a “Flipping the Bird” event where members of the public can watch exhibit curators flip the pages of two of Audubon’s original “Birds of...

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College basketball can be hard to predict. That didn’t stop these student...

Blue Devils fans are still making sense of Duke’s stunning late-game loss to Houston in what was a wild Final Four game. But for some fans of men’s college hoops, predicting this season’s nail-biters,...

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Duke Team Claims First Place at Global Health Tech Competition

It all starts with a simple question: How can I help? For some Duke students, the answer meant taking initiative – transforming empathy into action, ideas, and impact in order to tackle the most...

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