Research Areas
Science & Society and the larger Duke community are committed creating opportunities to share science with a broader audience.
From making discoveries that simplify food production in developing countries to enriching local science curricula to studying community-based interventions that can improve family functioning, Duke professors are making a difference in the lives of so many people. The Center for Child and Family Policy provides an integrated system of research, debate, dissemination, public service, and teaching. The Duke Lemur Center is renowned both for its excellent scholarship and for its learning and immersion opportunities for people to study lemurs, behavior, and environment. Meanwhile, the Duke Center for Science Education hosts competitions across campus to develop innovative and engaging curricula for teaching science, technology, engineering, and math in schools and the community.
Participating Faculty
- Misha Angrist, PhD (Science & Society)
- Raymond Barfield, MD (Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy)
- John Bartlett, MD (Medicine and Global Health, Center for AIDS Research, Duke Global Health Institute)
- Kenneth Dodge, PhD (Center for Child and Family Policy, Public Policy, Psychology and Neuroscience)
- Brian Hare, PhD (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Evolutionary Anthropology, DIBS)
- Adam Hollowell, PhD (Religion, Public Policy)
- Andrew Janiak, PhD (Philosophy)
- Eve Puffer, PhD (Psychology & Neuroscience, Global Health)
- Amir H. Rezvani, PhD (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
- Dan Rittschof, PhD (Ecology, Toxicology)
- Craig Dane Roberts, PhD (Duke Institute for Brain Sciences)
- Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, PhD (Pharmacology & Cancer Biology)
- Suzanne Shanahan, PhD (Kenan)
- Rebecca Vidra, PhD (Environmental Science, Environmental Science and Policy)
- Priscilla Wald (English, Women’s Studies)
- Anne Yoder, PhD (Biology)
Related Courses
- Cancer in Our Lives: Film, Narrative, Fiction, History and Politics
- Communicating Outside the Box: Effective Science Communications and Research Translation Skills
- Environmental Conservation and Documentary Photography
- Ethics in an Unjust World
- Genome and the Internet: Growing Up Together
- Knowledge in Service of Society
- Politics, Religion, and Radical Democracy
- Science Fiction Film
- Scientific Writing
- Cultures of New Media