I need to acknowledge our director of grad studies Gregory Samanez-Larkin for treating all students—current, past, accepted, & rejected—with the kindness that academia can so sadly lack. He’s going viral on Reddit for his thoughtful rejection letters, & I hope other programs follow suit.

Deeply Rooted

Meet Thavolia Glymph, the 2024 AHA President
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Hey, Ken Jeong, we saved you a seat! Thank you for being #ForeverDuke ! 💙

Happy Holidays from Dean @DrGaryBennett! 🎁Wishing you all much joy and cheer as we approach a new year. We are grateful for the many ways you support our students and one another.

Machine learning platforms, including pre-trained models, should be treated like other forms of critical software infrastructure such as programming languages, protocols, operating systems, and databases.

Open source is the best way to maintain a level playing field.

So happy to share this new paper from the lab led by the brilliant Evan Bordt showing a critical role for microglial #mitochondria in the long-term impact of early-life infection, in a sex-dependent manner. A short 🧵 👇authors.elsevier.com/c/1i8iO3AAzzhE…

.Global Black Studies at Duke's Richard Powell Helps Revive the Legacy of Donyale Luna
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Four new faculty members - Di Fang, Suzanne Crifo, Alex Dunlap and Fan Wei - represent a 'new wave' of computational thinking for our Department of Mathematics. Read more about their scholarship and approach to teaching: duke.is/c/qmks

Happy birthday to our Vice President and Director of Athletics, Nina King! 🎉

We mourn the death of Professor Philip Benfey, who passed away last Tuesday. A prominent scholar, he served as departmental chair during a challenging time, hired many of our faculty members and mentored a generation of plant molecular biologists. today.duke.edu/2023/10/duke-f…

Introducing Trinity's 2023 new faculty cohort! 💫
These scholars are not only among the world's brightest minds, they are also committed educators who are driven by a passion for enriching the lives of Duke students: duke.is/p/24pq

Congratulations to the recipients of our 2023 Undergraduate Teaching Awards! Presented this month by Arts & Sciences Council, these colleagues exemplify our foundational commitment to education and serve as aspirational models for our community. 👏🧵duke.is/w/zkkj

Over the weekend, Duke faculty, staff and returning students came together to welcome the Class of 2027 to campus duke.is/b/9fs3

We are looking for 1-2 motivated and ambitious postdocs to join a young, diverse, and exciting group of scientists at Duke University. Our projects focus on different aspects of cellular response to stress, gene expression control, and diseases.

Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25298