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Duke University is committed to fostering an open, welcoming, inclusive community that respects each individual.  We remain steadfast in our policies of nondiscrimination and inclusion for all of our students, faculty, staff, alumni, patients, fans and visitors. We deplore in the strongest possible terms the new state law, HB2, that prevents municipalities from establishing laws that protect members of the LGBTQ+ community and others from discrimination and eliminates some economic advancement opportunities for underrepresented communities.

The Golden Apple Awards are the highest teaching awards presented by the Duke University School of Medicine student body to recognize outstanding dedication to medical student education. The 2016 recipients of the Golden Apple Awards are:

Mary Greenway, executive assistant to Dean Nancy C. Andrews in the School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2015 Susan B. Clark Administrative Leadership Award, a prestigious honor presented annually to a Duke administrative professional who demonstrates the qualities exemplified by Clark during her remarkable career – dedication to the institution, service to others, and personal strength of character.

The National Cancer Institute has awarded a prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award to David G. Kirsch, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the departments of Radiation Oncology and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke Health.

Duke University School of Medicine ranked eighth in research and eighth in primary care among all medical schools in the nation, according to new U.S. News & World Report rankings. The School consistently ranks among the top ten medical schools.

L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, associate dean for Clinical and Translational Science in the School of Medicine and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine, was selected to receive the 2016 Society of General Internal Medicine’s Mid-Career Research and Mentorship Award. This award is given each year to honor a superb mid-career clinician investigator who is actively engaged in research and in the mentorship of junior investigators. 

  Neuroscientists at Duke Health have developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) that allows primates to use only their thoughts to navigate a robotic wheelchair.  A computer in the lab of Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph.D., monitors brain signals from a rhesus macaque. 

The Senate voted 89-4 today to confirm Robert Califf, MD, as the next commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Califf takes over the job from Margaret Hamburg, who left the agency in March. The FDA's chief scientist, Stephen Ostroff, has served as acting commissioner since her departure.

Nancy C. Andrews, MD, PhD, Dean, Duke University School of Medicine, today announced the launch of the new Center for Population Health Sciences in the School of Medicine. The center will be led by Lesley Curtis, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine and director of the Center for Pragmatic Health Systems Research in the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).

Duke neuroscientist Kafui Dzirasa is among 106 researchers named Thursday by President Barack Obama to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.