Devils and Details

Devils and Details

A monthly sonic check-in with Duke. Something cool on campus, a few words about alumni activities, an interview or two. Sit down and let us tell you a story.

Episodes

Blue Chair Conversation With Deondra Rose

June 11, 2026 • 22 mins
Deondra Rose is made for ambition. In this episode of Blue Chair Conversations, the Duke professor and author reflects on the transformative power of education, the importance of curiosity and why learning to engage across differences is essential for the next generation of leaders.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Max Templeton

May 28, 2026 • 26 mins
Max Templeton is made for service. In this episode, Templeton’71 reflects on what it meant to arrive at Duke in 1967 as one of the institution’s early Black students, the resistance he faced before even stepping onto campus and the defining experiences that shaped his understanding of leadership and service. From the events surrounding the Allen Building takeover to a distinguished career as a Navy officer and veteran a...
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Blue Chair Conversation With Melissa Bernstein

May 14, 2026 • 18 mins
Melissa Bernstein is made for Meaning. The co-founder of Melissa & Doug shares her personal story behind one of the world’s most beloved toy brands. Bernstein reflects on leaving a conventional career path, building a successful business alongside her husband and discovering how creativity became a source of healing. She also discusses her work mentoring students, studying meaning and helping others imagine lives beyond f...
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Blue Chair Conversation With Norman Wirzba

May 6, 2026 • 31 mins
Norman Wirzba is made for Compassion. Wirzba, professor in the Duke Divinity School and Director of Research in Duke’s Office of Climate and Sustainability, shares why hope, compassion and community are essential to building a more sustainable future. Drawing inspiration from family, faith and the next generation, Wirzba reflects on how personal love can shape global responsibility, especially in the face of climate change.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Tyson Haywood Brown

April 16, 2026 • 16 mins
Tyson Haywood Brown is made for Mentorship. Now leading the Samuel DuBois Cook Center at Duke, Brown shares his vision for building multigenerational mentorship that empowers the next generation of scholars and leaders. He reflects on the powerful role of mentorship from his college professors to his grandfather, the Rev. Haywood Brown.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Sadie Tillery

April 2, 2026 • 22 mins
Sadie Tillery is made for Curiosity. As co-director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Tillery says her curiosity in other’s stories makes her more compassionate and understanding. Through the festival, she brings award-winning artists from all over the world to Durham, North Carolina, every year.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Peter Feaver

March 19, 2026 • 21 mins
Peter Feaver is made for Empathy. As the director of Duke’s American Grand Strategy program, he believes that being able to walk in another’s shoes is a core value. That’s why he organizes an event every four years that gathers Republican and Democratic presidential advisers in discussion.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Angel Collie

March 5, 2026 • 13 mins
Angel Collie is made for Leadership. He wakes up and writes down three things he is grateful for every day, taking the chance to lean into gratitude instead of fear. And in Angel’s experience working with faculty and students, he can lead with hope and belonging in partnership with Duke.
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Blue Chair Conversation with Coach Jon Scheyer and Dr. Joseph Turek

February 19, 2026 • 22 mins
Coach Jon Scheyer and Dr. Joseph Turek are made for Teamwork. Head Coach of Duke Men’s Basketball Jon Scheyer and Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Dr. Joseph Turek both run successful teams that win together. In this conversation, they discuss the keys to success, what makes a team great and how their unlikely friendship has impacted their journeys.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Suzanne Wardell

February 5, 2026 • 20 mins
Suzanne Wardell is made for freedom. As an assistant research professor in pharmacology and cancer biology, she discovered that a drug designed to relieve post-menopausal symptoms could help cure breast cancer. Today, Suzanne credits Duke for providing freedom for her research that is changing women’s health and beyond.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Bill Pan

January 22, 2026 • 16 mins
Bill Pan is made for resilience. As a research scientist and professor at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, he has to be. Hear Pan’s story of how drastic cuts to research funding brought him back to the story of his parents’ marriage.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Brandon Garrett

January 8, 2026 • 10 mins
Brandon Garrett, Duke professor of law, has seen the criminal justice system up close by representing defendants who were later exonerated and becoming a scholar of wrongful convictions cases. What is the justice system of our future? One in which technology used for good leads to fairness like never before.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Heather Whitson

December 18, 2025 • 19 mins
Heather Whitson is made for purpose. Heather Whitson’s life purpose came into focus when her love of science was linked to helping her grandmother confront Alzheimer’s Disease. Through her work at Duke, Dr. Whitson has found that Alzheimer's and dementia are diseases of aging that can be prevented decades before initial symptoms set in.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Ronnie Chatterji

November 5, 2025 • 16 mins
Ronnie Chatterji is made for innovation. The chief economist of OpenAI and professor of business and public policy at Duke, Chatterji says that technology of our present and future has the power to humanize us and grow our relationships stronger than ever.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Victoria Pinedo

November 4, 2025 • 10 mins
Victoria Pinedo is made for community. As a first-generation college student at Duke, Pinedo ’22 says building authentic community takes both courage and using one’s voice. Her secret to successfully navigating a world of firsts? The community she built around her at Duke.
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Blue Chair Conversation With Kate Bowler

November 3, 2025 • 9 mins
Kate Bowler is made for hope. After being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at 35, Bowler began re-examining much of what she thought she knew about life, loss and joy. Now in remission, she explains what she has learned about how authentic hope can exist in the midst of life’s greatest uncertainties.
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A Few Words at Parting

June 11, 2025 • 11 mins
Every year at Duke ends with a celebration of LDOC – Last Day of Classes – with music, parties, and celebrations. And each year a group of student tour guides graduates, giving their final tours around campus. Devils & Details goes along to look into these last things.
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Remembering John Feinstein '77

March 14, 2025 • 5 mins
DukeMag writer Corbie Hill spoke with the noted sportswriter, who died March 13, for our Fall 2024 issue. Here are excerpts from that interview.
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Is That a Dog in the Library?

March 4, 2025 • 16 mins
In this episode of Devils and Details senior writer Scott Huler visits a program that brings dogs into Perkins Library, has a conversation about grievance with professor and best-selling author Frank Bruni, and considers what it means when your institution outlasts its trees.
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Playing in the Dirt

October 2, 2024 • 17 mins
In this episode of Devils & Details, we dig in the dirt with the folks who maintain the award-winning field at Wallace Wade Stadium; we listen in on an interview of sports-writing giant John Feinstein ’77 by staff writer Corbie Hill; we consider the various goodbye and welcome parties Duke throws for its incoming freshmen and its alums moving to new cities; and we look back at the quiet summer campus.
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