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Faculty
Beyond AI's Black Box
Corbie HillWhen her high school classmates were in study hall, a teenaged Cynthia Rudin would sneak into the practice room and pound through the soap operatic flourishes of Rachmaninoff. Her favorite, though, was Ravel; she loved his and his French contemporaries’ impressionistic tides of heady emotion.
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Health and Medicine
Eyes on a Miracle
Michael PennIn West Africa, Duke eye surgeon Lloyd Williams is helping local doctors restore sight to the blind, a mission that is both easier and harder than you’d think.
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Great Duke Parents
Giving Tuesday
Tyler GilmoreHow Duke parent Laurence Belfer helped to shape the biggest global day of philanthropy -
Faculty
Artist Stephen Hayes Sculpts from History with an Eye on Changing the Future
Janine LatusThe boots haunted him. Thirty-two hundred of them tromping in formation down a narrow dirt road that ran between swamps and through pine barrens three miles outside of Wilmington, North Carolina, their percussion pounding into the earth as 1,600 American Colored Troops advanced into the enemy fire guarding Wilmington.
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On Campus
The Giving Back Tree
Scott HulerIf you’ve seen the Dawn Redwood in Duke Gardens you know that trees do, in a way, come back from the dead. The gardens’ Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, is an unusual redwood for two reasons.