Lemur Center names new executive director. Duke Today, Feb. 13, 2019. Greg Dye will take over as director of the Duke Lemur Center, the world’s largest and most diverse collection of lemurs outside their native Madagascar. He will succeed biology professor Anne Yoder, who led the center for 12 years.
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Researcher turns wood into larger-than-life insects
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Researcher turns wood into larger-than-life insects. Duke Research blog, March 27, 2018. Alejandro Berrio is a postdoctoral associate in biology at Duke. He’s also a woodcarver, having exhibited his shoebox-sized models of praying mantises, wasps, crickets and other creatures in museums and galleries on two continents.
Duke Olympian will soon defend her Ph.D.
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Duke Olympian will soon defend her Ph.D. Duke Today, March 19, 2018. Q&A with Randi Griffin, Duke student and forward for historic Korean hockey team.
Mixing it up
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Mixing it up. Duke Today, Nov. 7, 2017. To most people, turbulence is a bumpy plane ride. But to one researcher at Duke University, turbulence is a mathematical riddle.
Vital signs
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Vital signs. Duke Today, Nov. 7, 2017. Where some see noisy spikes and dips on an electrocardiogram, one researcher sees hidden mathematical problems.
Of butterfly wings and caterpillar brains
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Of butterfly wings and caterpillar brains. Duke Today, August 8, 2016. To most people, the spectacular diversity of butterfly wing patterns is a chaotic riot of color, dots and squiggles. But to biologist Fred Nijhout, they’re variations on the same basic theme
Of heartbeats, bones and brushstrokes
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Of heartbeats, bones and brushstrokes. Duke Today, Aug. 1, 2016. It takes a well-trained eye to spot an irregular heartbeat in the peaks and valleys of an electrocardiogram. The same goes for identifying an extinct ape from a single fossilized tooth, or telling an original van Gogh from a fake. But in recent years, applied mathematician Ingrid Daubechies has been training computers to churn through ECG tracings, high-resolution scans of fossils, paintings and other complex digital data and work things out automatically.
Biomechanics pioneer Steven Vogel dies
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Biomechanics pioneer Steven Vogel dies. Duke Today, Nov. 30, 2015. Duke biologist Steven Vogel, whose eclectic research interests ranged from flying insects and fluttering leaves to swimming squid and nectar-slurping hummingbirds, died on Nov. 24 at Croasdaile Village in Durham. He was 75. Also featured in The Scientist, The New York Times and the Boston Globe.
Blocking the virus torpedo
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Blocking the virus torpedo. Duke Today, Oct. 1, 2015. Kevin Welsher uses advanced microscopy techniques to make never-before-seen 3D videos of viruses like flu and HIV just before they invade human cells.
Human rights meets big data
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Human rights meets big data. Duke Today, October 1, 2015. Statistician Beka Steorts is developing new techniques for a more accurate accounting of human rights abuses in Syria and other conflicts.