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    Gist from the Mill

    ~A mother’s touch protects against later drug use.
    ~Race, ethnicity and politics.
    ~Nature and nurture in the origins of problem behaviors.
    ~Interventions of the 1970s continue to have an impact on feminist thought.

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    McClain Appointed Dean of Graduate School

    REGSS co-director and political scientist, Paula D. McClain will oversee graduate education as dean of the Graduate School.

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    Research Team to Explore Energy Costs at the Root of Middle East Unrest

    Study will help eliminate the risk of a surge of higher gas prices, as well as food prices, due to civil unrest in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Multidisciplinarity. Collaboration. Research. Knowledge.

At SSRI, we believe that working together is the best way to get things done. We connect researchers with interests in numerous social and behavioral science areas and promote multidisciplinary research across the Duke campus. As one of the seven signature institutes at Duke University, we facilitate and support cutting-edge research and bring together teams of scientists to work on some of the most complex and urgent questions facing social scientists today.

 

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