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The distance a language can close

At DKU’s intensive summer Chinese program, students from around the world found new ways to connect with strangers, friends and members of their own families. Bronze Urfrig, a Duke Kunshan...

DKU Sustainability Day turns campus into a classroom

Rooftop solar heaters, an underground energy center, rainwater systems and a community garden became part of the lesson as Duke Kunshan University held its annual Sustainability Day on...

Following the evidence: Where a summer of research led at DKU

“The result makes no sense according to any of the existing theories.” Tan Zhang, assistant professor of Materials Science at Duke Kunshan University, and his student researchers had spent the...

DKU professors win grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China

Six Duke Kunshan University professors have received research funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one of the country’s most prestigious research funding programs. The recipients...

DKU welcomes Class of 2030 from 50 countries, selected from record applicant pool

Le Hoang Yen did not know what piece would come next. That was precisely the point. Standing before her new classmates at Duke Kunshan University’s convocation on Aug. 21,...

Before graduation, they took on questions that mattered

Inside a virtual reality headset, Rittik Barua’s program uses small changes in a person’s head and body movements as signs that their attention may be drifting. It does...

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Study links early-life heatwave exposure to climate governance

A new study led by Jingbo Cui, associate professor at Duke Kunshan University’s Environmental Research Center, has found that jurisdictions governed by policymakers who experienced extreme heat early...

How planning scales shape biodiversity outcomes of renewable energy expansion

A new study led by Professor Binbin Li’s research team at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) examined how the expansion of solar and wind energy sites under different levels of...

Study maps aging and health research gaps across East and Southeast Asia

As East and Southeast Asia ages rapidly, a new study involving researchers from Duke Kunshan University, Duke University and Duke-NUS Medical School maps the region’s long-term aging research...

Climate change worsens drug resistance, research says in Lancet journal

A faculty-student research team at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) and Duke University has published a policy commentary in “The Lancet Planetary Health” examining the often-overlooked links between climate change and...

How a Buddhist monk reshaped our imagination of outer space

When a Buddhist monk claimed the Buddha understood the solar system 2,500 years before telescopes, most people would close the book and move on. Ben Van Overmeire at Duke Kunshan University...

Eighteen DKU students named 2025 Millennium Fellows

Eighteen undergraduates from Duke Kunshan University have been selected as 2025 Millennium Fellows, marking the fourth consecutive year that DKU students have earned places in the global leadership program. The DKU fellows will work virtually with more...

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