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A former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a Duke sociologist and DUPRI member who has given decades of service and millions of dollars to the university, and a researcher tackling the most common cause of cancer death will be the first inductees into the Duke Graduate School 
It’s not just lawyers and doctors who need continuing education. For our grants and contracts staff, their job is to stay ahead of the different requirements and changing practices that make innovative interdisciplinary research possible.
Linda Burton, dean of the social sciences and a professor of sociology, examines poverty from a worldwide, interdisciplinary perspective.

Did you know the United Kingdom is one of the most generous countries in the world when it comes to aid for global health and development?

Psychological characteristics link genes with upward social mobility, according to data collected from almost 1000 individuals over four decades.
PSID Annual User Conference
September 15-16, 2016, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
 

Every office has experienced it. One person contracts a cold, and before you know it the entire group is coughing and reaching for the tissues.
The Carolina-Duke rivalry is arguably one of the greatest, but when it comes to academics, the two are often close collaborators and good friends. Only ten miles apart, faculty often share expertise and research with one another (despite what shade of blue they think is best).
Rough Childhoods Have Ripple Effects for Baboons Unhealthy lifestyle, medical care only partly to blame for similar trends in humans.

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