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Impact

Real-world outcomes, notable awards, and annual impact from Duke innovation.

Impact

Real-world outcomes, notable awards, and annual impact from Duke innovation.

Impact

Real-world outcomes, notable awards, and annual impact from Duke innovation.

Duke 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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Nancy 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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