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Sarah Edmunds, PhD, a 2019 alumna of our Psychology Internship, reflects on how COVID-19 has affected her life and her work.

We reached out to some of our psychiatry and psychology alumni from North Carolina to New Zealand to hear how COVID-19 has impacted their work and their lives—and they generously shared their reflections.

In mid-March, U.S. graduate medical education and psychology internship programs were forced to curtail many academic and clinical training activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A few Duke University staff members share their stories and lessons learned about parenting during the pandemic. Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Science chair (and parent!) Moira Rynn, MD, provides some insight and advice.

Cartoon characters may seem like odd additions to a treatment plan for patients at risk for developing eating disorders and other psychiatric illnesses, but they can be powerful teachers for young children.

In 2020-2021, the Duke University Energy Initiative’s Energy Research Seed Fund will support projects addressing renewable energy’s integration into the grid, battery performance, electrochemical catalysts, utilities’ decision-making, the energy-water nexus and energy’s connections with war and health.

Geri Dawson, PhD, Nicole Schramm-Sapyta, PhD, and Kevin LaBar, PhD, were among the members of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences Faculty Network who recently shared their neuroscience perspectives on COVID-19.

Palliative care is designed to provide holistic care to people living with a life-threatening illness. But a team of researchers, including Duke Psychiatry’s Katherine Ramos, PhD, recently identified a notable shortcoming of the U.S.

In this opinion piece published in The Hill, Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD, K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Associate Professor, urges the federal government to act immediately to protect our younger scientists from the psychological impact of COVID-19.

Even before the COVID-19 epidemic Latinx immigrants were a vulnerable population.