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View MoreDuke is building a cross-disciplinary push to understand how heat affects kidney disease and city environments
Duke University's Climate and Health Research Initiative, backed by a $4.5 million Duke Endowment award, is funding cross-disciplinary research on extreme heat's health and environmental impacts, with projects spanning farm worker kidney disease, urban temperature monitoring gaps, and coral reef resilience.
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View MoreNancy Schlichting gives $250,000 to fund nurse-led innovation at Duke Health
Duke alumna Nancy Schlichting and her wife Pam Theisen have made a $250,000 gift to establish the Nursing Innovation Fund at Duke Health, empowering nurses to develop and scale new care models across the health system.
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