Research conducted by Binbin Li and colleagues at Duke Kunshan’s Environmental Research Center has shed light on the effects of a rapid increase in livestock grazing across forested areas globally.

Published in the scientific journal Global Change Biology, on July 29, their study revealed a complex but generally negative picture of the impacts. It could contribute to forest conservation efforts and policies, and provide a scientific basis for future planning of sustainable livestock grazing.

Duke Kunshan student Eric Qu is just two years into his degree but has already published a paper in a major academic journal as the first author.

Data science undergraduate Eric Qu

Screens dictate much of the way we interact with the world today, often leading to alienation as they draw us further into our own little bubbles. Art historian Jung Choi is working to change that.

Jung Choi, assistant professor of art history and visual studies at Duke Kunshan, works with digital media and augmented reality

A speech recognition system designed by researchers at Duke Kunshan defeated strong competition to win two awards at Interspeech 2020, the world’s largest conference on speech processing and application.

Ming Li, left, demonstrates one of the systems developed by researchers and students at Duke Kunshan’s SMIIP Lab

As a boy, Sze Chai Kwok would spend hours exploring the woods and beaches near his childhood home in Hong Kong’s Clear Water Bay, watching the various wildlife hunt, eat and fight. Later, as a Ph.D. student in the U.K., he’d stroll London’s cosmopolitan streets, observing with equal fascination the throng of commuters, traders and tourists.

After rapid developments in ancient DNA research, or archaeogenetics, leading experts from around the world, including Duke Kunshan University, have proposed a set of ethical standards for the handling and testing of human remains.

Warming water and receding sea ice in the Western Antarctic Peninsula is changing the plankton community there with potential consequences for climate change, according to research led by scientists from Duke University and Duke Kunshan.

Yajuan Lin, lead author on the five year study

A mobile application designed for stroke patients and doctors in rural China led to significant improvements in patients’ blood pressure and physical activity, reducing the risk of hospitalization, disability and death, new research shows.

Strokes are the leading cause of death and disability in rural China. (Photo by Pixabay)

In collaboration with China Youth Climate Action Network and the Chengdu Bird Watching Society, Duke Kunshan University has concluded China’s first nationwide study of bird-window collisions.

Released on Sept. 9, the research uncovered major causal factors and outlined actions that could be taken to reduce collisions, including altering new building designs, retrofitting old buildings to be more bird-friendly and changing human behavior.