Duke Graduate School Alumni News & Notes

The Forbes 30 Under 30 lists recognize 600 young innovators across 20 different industries, identifying business and industry leaders on the rise.

If you’re not thoughtfully analyzing the political landscape of your firm, you are self-imposing a ceiling on your career advancement.

After 30 years as an unpublished, underground academic classic, Julius S. Scott's dissertation on the ways slaves, free blacks, and sailors spread news of the Haitian Revolution and emancipation, has been published by Verso.

Two flip-flops, 115 drinking cups, 25 plastic bags, and four plastic bottles were among the plastic found in a dead sperm whale that washed ashore in Indonesia.

Randy King’s brain comprehends more than many people ever hope to. An expert in mathematics with a natural ability to teach others effectively,

Mike Dickison was a museum curator when he turned to another form of curating, teaching fellow New Zealanders how to beef up their country’s presence on the website.

Oil prices jumped in September and early October of this year (2018), but have dropped $20 a barrel in the last few weeks. What’s happening now is change in thinking about future economic growth.

Research shows Americans are shortening their Thanksgiving dinners in this politically polarized era. Diana Butler Bass, author of "Grateful," diagnoses us with Thanksgiving Anxiety Disorder and offers top tips for getting through our only holiday devoted to gratitude.

There can be little doubt people believe narratives are important and that crafting, manipulating, or influencing them likely shapes public policy. But how does one actually do this? To Michael D. …

In an ongoing partnership with Rolex, *Vanity Fair* charts the stories of some extraordinary women who have broken boundaries.

Meteorologists are warning that Hurricane Florence could be the "Harvey of the east coast," dumping record rains and triggering unprecedented flooding. While the two hurricanes may be similar scenarios, the geography of the Texas gulf coast and the Carolinas is quite different.

These are the stories of six people who still live with the fallout a decade later.

Across the breadth of fire science disciplines, women are leaders in fire research and development. We want to acknowledge some of these leaders to promote diversity across our disciplines. In Fire, we are also happy to announce a new Special Collection, through which we will continue to acknowledge current and future Diversity Leaders in Fire Science by inviting contributions from the leaders in this editorial, among others.

This weekend, she’ll be the keynote speaker at the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People’s Founders’ Day Gala

Bucephalus and Roan Barbary were steeds. For 20 points, what were Balmung and Durendal?