Like most college arguments, the two brothers’ dispute had a familiar parent: procrastination. It was delightfully ironic. Eren and Murat Turan were both eager to avoid preparing for their law school exams...

Connor McMahon was treated at a children’s hospital in Atlanta for leukemia, first at three years old, then eight years later when he was 12. When he relapsed again at 15, he traveled to Duke for a clinical trial of a first-of-its kind treatment.

MD & MDiv grad Monica Bodd thinks a lot about the patient experience and how to make it better — both through research and clinical practice. You can take the doctor out of Duke, but you can't take Duke out of the doctor.

DCI is joining a new initiative with the Global Pediatric Brain Tumor Network, Bayer, the National Brain Tumor Society, other institutions, and Africa partners to "create an equitable ecosystem of care for pediatric brain cancer."

The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center celebrated its 85-year anniversary and held its first full-scale "Angels Among Us 5K and Walk of Hope" event since the COVID-19 pandemic began two years ago.

It’s the number two cancer killer in the U.S. after lung cancer. While cases are down, the number of new diagnoses in the under-50 crowd have been rising. Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS, FASCO, weighs in on the troubling trends.

On Wednesday, February 27, a cohort of six graduate students from Duke and six from North Carolina Central University plus one postdoctoral fellow from each school — gathered for a mentor-mentee communications workshop.

A team of multi-institution researchers led by Kevin Oeffinger, MD, has been awarded a 4-year, $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute for their “EMPOWER-II Study” to promote breast cancer screening in women who survived childhood cancer.

Duke University Medical School alumnus William Kaelin, Jr., MD, advised young researchers to “keep that wide-eyed wonder and don’t talk yourself out of experiments because the moment you do, it’s sort of a road to perdition."

The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center received $200K from The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation and Solving Kids’ Cancer to help launch a new immunotherapy trial for children battling deadly brain tumors. The gift was in memory of Steph Bader, 13.

Can we have an honest conversation; Yemeni to American?

Nearly two years since the 2014 attack on Gaza, San Francisco Bay Area child psychiatrist Bahar Hashemi, MD, talked about what she learned on her recent trip to Gaza about the effects of perpetual trauma on the children there.

On a crisp night last month nearly all 22 students learning Turkish at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University took advantage of a unique opportunity to practice their Turkish with Nobel prize winner Aziz Sancar at his Türk Evi (Turkish House)...

The status of LGBTQ rights in the Muslim world today is perplexing given that Islamic history is characterized by its relative tolerance of sexual diversity and same-sex desire.

Afghan refugee Gulwali Passarlay opens up about his remarkable year-long journey to the UK, in a conversation with Duke students facilitated by Julie Poucher Harbin, editor of ISLAMiCommentary.

With the landmark Iran nuclear agreement signed this past summer, there is increasing hope in scholarly circles that American researchers & students can engage more with a country that has not had diplomatic relations with the U.S. for more than 30..

Professor Michael Sells visited Duke for two talks; “Translator of Desires” — a poetry reading of the Islamic mystic Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi; and a workshop on the Qur’an and its listeners. Student Abdul Latif interviewed him.

The conflicts to which military personnel are deployed are becoming continually more convoluted and paradoxical. What motivates young men and women to join the military in a world that is everything but stable?

"A program called Critical Muslim Studies, an intensive two-week summer school, convened in Granada in early June. My biggest take-away — that knowledge and education as we know it was shaped primarily by the colonialist West ..."

A scholar's response to Reza Aslan and Hasan Minhaj’s “Open Letter to American Muslims on Same Sex Marriage”