Projects

Motor proteins hydrolyze ATP to produce force to assemble spindles and separate chromosomes during cell division.

The goal of the project is to track and observe students' experiences across the two year sequence in chemistry and beyond.

This project focuses on advanced control of smart battery converters, particularly for those related to artificial intelligence.

Acid-base chemistry is a concept that is reiterated across the two year introductory sequence in chemistry.

The Belief, Affect, & Behavior Lab (BABLab) is seeking 3-5 passionate, hard-working undergraduate students to join our lab as Research Assistants this Fall.

An app that can be downloaded by patients to aid in proper completion of their breathing exercises given to them by physical or occupational therapists.

The Boyer Lab is looking for an undergraduate interested in the evolution of specialized leaping behaviors and associated post-cranial morphology in primates.

This project will explore the immune repertoire (T cell receptor, B cell receptor, immune cell profile) in patients with cancer in an effort to develop novel therapeutic and diagn

Women have played an outsized role in art-history writing. Yet their accomplishments as scholars and writers of art is largely absent from the historiographic literature. 

A good match for this project would be a rising 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate student who is interested in committing multiple semesters to our laboratory.

Genetic admixture is commonly understood as mixed ancestry (think of your 23andMe results); the goal in our case is to predict ancestry fractions on any genetic data and without ancestry reference

Participate in a field evolutionary ecology study which aims to identify the environmental conditions that favor different germination time genotypes using a weedy plant and genetic model, Arab

This would be a great project for someone interested in medicine, humanities, or North Carolina history.

The goal of our research is to understand how tissues undergo repair after tissue injury.

In bacteria, the primary pathway for stress is called the stringent response.

Reconstructing and mapping indoor environments is critical to augmented reality applications.

Fungi are everywhere. They are on our skin, in our food, in our beer, and in the beautiful Uinta Mountains where you will get to travel as part of this position.

My translational and clinical research focus is pediatric brain tumors.

This summer I will be working on revisions on a manuscript about the history Latinxs in the US South and need assistance with additional primary research, creation of relevant literature reviews, a

Microbial communities play a critical role in the Earth’s climate.

I am interested in understanding gut development, both when it goes right in healthy babies and when it goes wrong in a genetic disease called omphalocele.

Participate in a field evolutionary ecology study which aims to identify the environmental conditions that favor different germination time genotypes using a weedy plant and genetic model, Arab

Nourish is a 12-month randomized controlled trial that examines the effects of a digital health intervention on changes in dietary quality and blood pressure among adults with high blood pressure (

An app that can be downloaded by patients to aid in proper completion of their oculomotor exercises given to them by physical or occupational therapists after concussion, vestibular hypofunction, o

This project aims to investigate several interesting and novel topologies of smart energy systems, which have not been covered in any literature.

An app that can be downloaded by patients to aid in proper completion of their sensorimotor exercises.

Bariatric surgery is associated with increased risk of alcohol-related outcomes, with previous studies demonstrating increased risk of de novo alcohol-related complications among Roux-en-Y Gastric

Though often viewed as an annoying pest, mosquitoes are an amenable tool for understanding the molecular and behavioral basis of several physiological processes such a

The SSoC Lab conducts sociological and social-psychological research on cooperation, leadership, power, influence, status, and morality.

The Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research (CHPIR) in the Duke Global Health Institute is seeking 5 students interested in the intersections of policy at the local, national, and intern

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial electric stimulation (TES) are tools for non-invasive modulation of brain function for research and therapeutic purposes.

1-2 Independent study or work study positions in the Lechler Lab.

Our lab studies brain development, primarily using mouse models and human cells.  Students will have the opportunity to participate in ongoing projects in the lab, including investigating how disea

The mesopredator release hypothesis predicts that the absence of top predators from an ecosystem results in an increased abundance of mid-sized carnivorous predators (i.e.

Redundancy in the genetic code means some codons are used more frequently than others, leading to a phenomenon known as codon bias.

Duke students and faculty from all of Duke will work on projects from Robotics to Conservation to Policy.

The Vilgalys mycology lab is looking for interested students to study interactions between forest trees and their symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi.  We are using molecular-based methods to study interac