Yen Duong

Health care news

• Lead-lined room opens for treatment of rare childhood cancer in Charlotte, North Carolina Health News
• Forty-one N.C. counties classified as “high risk” in new opioid study, North Carolina Health News
• Hope for peanut allergies? Pills, patches, drops and even nuts themselves are being studied, Raleigh News & Observer
• North Carolina gets an "F" on how equally it treats mental and physical health issues

Press releases, profiles

• Making Wavelets: a Profile of Ingrid Daubechies, Simons Foundation
• Researchers Hope a "Robo-Nose" Could Give K-9 Officers a Break, Duke University
• Arithmetic Geometry, Number Theory and Computation, Simons Foundation

Animal news for Raleigh News & Observer

• Rock a bye manta ray, in the ocean: The first manta ray nursery is found
• Looks can deceive: They're adorable, but kinkajous are really 'Satan's teddy bear'
• Oldies are goodies: These birds may have sung the same songs for 1,000 years, Duke finds
• Spot a shark while diving off the NC coast? Snap a pic for these scientists

Other appearances

• Appearance on the podcast My Favorite Theorem
• Appearance on the podcast PhDrinking
• Essay in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society
• Personal reflections from the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings Blog post for the American Mathematical Society
• AAAS Member Spotlight profile