A host of luminaries, including seven Nobel Laureates, two former chancellors, and scores of Robert J. Lefkowitz’s former trainees gather to celebrate his 50 years at Duke.
Presidential Distinguished Chairs are a new class of endowed professorships, created to maximize the university’s ability to recruit and retain exceptional faculty in a wide range of disciplines, including those aligned with the Duke Science and Technology (DST) initiative.
An estate gift will advance the work of Sarah Armstrong and Chris Newgard who lead the NOURISH project which focuses on understanding the “food insecurity-obesity paradox”: the strong correlation between food insecurity not having enough to eat and obesity.