Last year, Duke University made the news thousands of times. There were reports on scientific breakthroughs, features on fascinating people, articles on ideas that just might change the world. These stories you see in the headlines are snapshots . . . each capturing a small part of what the people of this university do every day: make headway in addressing the most critical, intriguing, complicated issues of our time. As you'll see in the tiny sample of articles presented here, our work makes a good story, but it's making an even better world. We invite you to read all about it.