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Despite survival boost, gender gap hasn’t budged
Predict My Future reveals the answers to one of life's most fundamen
Predict My Future reveals the answers to one of life's most fundamen

The Biodemography of Aging Research Unit (BARU)—an interdisciplinary team of researchers with expertise ranging from demography/actuarial science to mathematics/physics, biology/genetics and health services research—has published a new book

Parents can help prevent their underage kids from drinking by employing a relatively simple strategy: setting clear rules that prohibit drinking, new research shows.
A former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a Duke sociologist and DUPRI member who has given decades of service and millions of dollars to the university, and a researcher tackling the most common cause of cancer death will be the first inductees into the Duke Graduate School 
It’s not just lawyers and doctors who need continuing education. For our grants and contracts staff, their job is to stay ahead of the different requirements and changing practices that make innovative interdisciplinary research possible.
Linda Burton, dean of the social sciences and a professor of sociology, examines poverty from a worldwide, interdisciplinary perspective.