The Coulter Investment Forum, which is part of the annual Council for Entrepreneurial Development’s annual Life Science Forum, will feature 19 emerging companies linked to major universities across the U.S.
Read MoreResearchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute have led an effort to develop a more accurate way to gauge the incidence of HIV infections in large populations, which will improve research and prevention strategies worldwide.
Read MoreOptimism among financial executives has climbed to record levels, driving in part by still-pending tax law changes in Congress, according to a new survey from Duke University.
Read MoreInside the JB Duke Hotel, a gathering space for Duke business school students and Durham’s startup community.
Read MoreThe post-college path for young innovator Ashlyn Sanders is like the nonlinear algebraic graphs she studied as a UNC Chapel Hill mathematics major. It’s an erratic waveform only fully understood when zoomed out to see how each plot point holds enough weight to cumulatively influence an outcome. Everything about...
Read MoreSomewhere along the way as female freshmen and sophomores take their necessary general education classes and prereqs, a direction for the future winds into their consciousness. A major is chosen, a summer internship is completed, four-year plans are set and, eventually, degrees are awarded. For women interested in computer science majors upon entering college, the chances are high during this period they’ll change their minds and pursue an alternative course of study and eventually, an entirely different career. High quit rates for women in computer science majors were calls for concern for Sue Harnett and Kimberly Jenkins, two women who’ve...
Read More“How can I use my skills to make a difference in my community?” This is a question Ashley Qian has been asking herself since she arrived at Duke University from New York three years ago. This past spring, she found her answer: Umbrella. Umbrella is an integrative computer software program that allows local homeless shelters to keep up-to-date records and also improve client outreach. What started as an idea at the 24-hour Duke Hackathon held on campus in March will soon become a real and helpful tool that social service agencies can use to better serve their needy clientele....
Read MoreIf you watched the opening ceremonies of the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 12, then you couldn’t have missed the seemingly miraculous moment when a paraplegic wearing a robotic suit kicked the first soccer ball of one of the world’s most anticipated sporting events. It was the first time a paraplegic person has walked on his own using a device controlled entirely with his own brain, and in the days since, it’s given hope to the hundreds of thousands of people around the world confined to wheelchairs. The feat hits close to home for the Triangle. Much of...
Read MoreLittle effort. Free cash. That’s the promise of a new mobile app called Lotto 23 launched April 10 by a pair of Duke University juniors. Brandon Sassouni and Zachary Poddela (along with Sassouni’s childhood friend in New York, Arieh Movtady) believe they’re the first in the world to create a mobile lottery that doesn’t require the oversight of government. Its potential could be industry-changing—U.S. lottery ticket sales topped $78 billion in 2012 and more than 57 percent of the population bought at least one ticket. Globally, at least 100 countries have publicly-operated lotteries. Sassouni and Poddela figure if people...
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