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The Duke Laptop Ensemble headlines its first concert

Hand surgeon and author Richard Brown has raised tens of thousands of dollars – and counting – for Doctors Without Borders

Her wisdom: Who you think you are isn’t who you can actually be

Why modeling climate patterns on a small scale can have a big impact on understanding tomorrow’s weather

William Harris Jr. puts the shine on hallowed hoop ground

When 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.

In 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.

How Duke parent Laurence Belfer helped to shape the biggest global day of philanthropy

The 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.