Missy Cummings, Robert J. Lefkowitz, Mary Pat McMahon, David M. Rubenstein, Adam Silver, Marco Werman, and Dean Smith

Q&A: Professor Abbas Benmanoun on policing language

With a burst of intellectual energy and healthy enrollments in classes, the department aims to prove that insights gleaned from the ancient past can inform the fraught present

From the editor: A Duke art historian reflects on Notre-Dame

Q&A with Professor Scott Compton, on phobias and anxiety

At Duke, advice comes from many corners, in many ways. And students aren't just asking about course selection.

From the editor: Evading disasters

Noor is a professor of biology and the author of Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek Can Teach Us About Evolution, Genetics and Life on Other Worlds.

The quest for "hard skills" exerts its pull. But Duke's schools also respond to a different imperative: Future professionals should serve interests larger than themselves.

What we know about fear and the brain

Morgan, professor and chair of religious studies, is the author of Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment (Oxford University Press)

From the editor: When Tom Wolfe came to K-ville