November 12 "Transcending the Boundaries" workshop will bring together research on neurological, clinical, social, and psychological aspects of addiction.
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Neuroscientist uses genetics and neuroimaging to explore the circuitry of the mind in an effort to better understand individual behavior.
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November 11 talk by Barbara Lau and students on the Pauli Murray Project. Co-sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, Franklin Center, and Duke Human Rights Center.
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"Breaking the Immigration Stalemate," written in collaboration with the Brookings Institution, addresses the trade-offs and assumptions underlying the current immigration debate and generates policy recommendations.
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Geneticist and bioethicist Charmaine Royal studies the interaction of genomic science and racial identity, particularly as it relates to research, healthcare, and the broader society.
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Among its many initiatives, the Reserve, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, operates a national offsets program designed to ensure integrity, transparency and financial value in the carbon market by establishing regulatory-quality standards for the development and verification of greenhouse gas emissions reduction projects and tracking the transaction of offset credits in a transparent, publicly accessible system. Profeta is the Reserve’s first board member representing an academic institution.
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The four new awards and five continuation awards will support project development and pilot research for high risk/high gain interdisciplinary faculty collaborations relevant to the DIBS Research Themes.
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The Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) is pleased to partner with The George Institute for International Health in Beijing, China to establish a Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Disease in China. Funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the UnitedHealth Group, DGHI will collaborate with existing health care systems in the Beijing region to build and strengthen sustainable programs in cardiovascular disease. It will also foster the training and mentoring of emerging scientists, health professionals, and/or community health workers.
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The students will spend the next two months exploring questions in genome sciences and policy under the mentorship of faculty in the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy.
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The Nicholas Institute's director for economic analysis and research professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment answers questions on carbon trading and the economics of climate change policy.
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Provost Peter Lange and Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies Susan Roth have awarded funding through the annual Common Fund competition to support the interdisciplinary project “Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature.” The project will feature an exhibition of contemporary and historical graphic satire at the Nasher Museum of Art in Spring 2010.
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A new website developed by a Duke University researcher at the Center for Child and Family Policy can provide policymakers and practitioners at the state, county and local levels with useful information for planning prevention strategies, determining community service needs and evaluating the benefits of alternative programs and policies.
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The conference, "The Applications of Economic Analysis in Law," sponsored in part by the Provost's Common Fund Small Awards, will include presentations on research topics such as racial profiling, affirmative action, mental health care, and wiretapping.
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The Arts and Sciences Council recently approved a new undergraduate major in neuroscience, to be administered by the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. The major will be open to students beginning in Fall 2009.
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Beginning in July 2009, DGHI and Peking University (PKU) will offer a two-week Duke-PKU Global Health Diploma program. The program will take place on PKU’s campus in Beijing, China and will be co-taught by faculty from Duke and PKU.
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The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), one of the seven interdisciplinary university institutes at Duke, is hosting several upcoming events paying tribute to the scholarship and academic tradition of John Hope Franklin.
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Ian Baucom, professor and chair of Duke’s English department, has been named director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), effective July 1. Baucom will succeed Professor Srinivas Aravamudan, who will become dean of the humanities in Arts & Sciences.
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The symposium, hosted by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke Chapel, will address the implications of exporting America’s higher education system as Duke and other universities across the nation work to expand their global presence by creating international outposts of their individual home campuses.
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The conference will feature a practical discussion with a group of the nation's leading air and climate experts on what role the Clean Air Act should play in both short and medium-term strategies to reduce greenhouse gases. Co-sponsored by Duke Law School and Harvard Law School.
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Afternoon events to commemorate the human rights hero include a keynote by Héctor Timerman, the Argentine Ambassador to the U.S., a panel with Duke professor Ariel Dorfman, and the opening of the papers in the Archive for Human Rights.
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Conference and forthcoming book explore questions of identifying and defining "goodness."
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The project, which received seed funding from the Provost's Common Fund, brings promising results and hope to women in Africa with severe birth injuries.
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Four Duke University economists will explore the legacy of John Maynard Keynes and discuss his place within the Bloomsbury group on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 6 p.m., at the Nasher Museum of Art.
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The aim of the bi-weekly brown bag lunch seminars is to provide an environment to present new ideas, discuss interesting problems and challenges, and initiate new collaborations, as well as an opportunity to explore different perspectives on classical problems, technical obstacles, unanswered questions and interesting puzzles in research and general fields of study.
The seminars will be held on Thursdays from 1:00pm to 2:00 pm, in room 4219 French Family Science Center, covering one, or at most two, topics at each meeting.
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Dean McLendon said the choice of Aravamudan was “particularly influenced by the leadership he's provided to the Franklin Humanities Institute. He has the ability to bring together in conversation humanists from many different disciplines.”
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The Jan. 28 talk will be moderated by Prof. Catherine Admay, Public Policy Studies & Duke Center for International Development and the Concilium on Southern Africa, and is sponsored by the Concilium on Southern Africa and co-sponsored by: The Provost's Common Fund, Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, the Duke Center for International Development, the Duke University Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change, the Duke Human Rights Center, Duke Law School, the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Nasher Museum of Art.
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The films provide popular and accessible vehicles for talking about ethics around a particular theme, and are open to audiences from both the Duke and surrounding communities. This year's series is cosponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
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The new Master of Science in Global Health degree, to be offered through the Graduate School and administered by the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), will draw upon the expertise of faculty in all of Duke’s graduate and professional schools.
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DGHI Director Michael Merson says he is pleased to have Meade joining the increasing cadre of scholars at Duke whose research lies at the intersection of the behavioral and biomedical sciences.
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Research Scientist Jennifer Lansford's work has been used to inform national debates regarding corporal punishment, to evaluate parenting programs in developing countries, and to suggest alternatives to traditional approaches of aggregating anti-social youth in juvenile justice, mental health and education settings.
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The new report, “Manufacturing Climate Solutions,” from the Center on Globalization, Governance, and Competitiveness, provides a detailed look at the manufacturing jobs that already exist and would be created when the U.S. takes action to limit global-warming pollution.
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Duke Institute for Brain Sciences is facilitating research by a team of faculty exploring the biological and psychological underpinnings of risky decision-making.
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Evening lecture and day-long symposium showcase interdisciplinary perspectives on music and the brain.
Nov. 12, 6:00pm, Weaver Lecture by Oliver Sacks, M.D., "Music, Healing and the Brain"
Nov. 13, 9:00am-5:00pm, Music and the Brain Symposium
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With the new five-year funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Duke Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center will support scholars in translating their knowledge about regulatory processes and peer influences into programs that thwart substance abuse and related problems in adolescents and young adults.
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The new series of briefs by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions assesses how best to use offsets to incorporate greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation from sectors and actors outside a regulatory policy.
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Directors of two interdisciplinary Institutes recognized by national Academy.
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The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) has announced funding to four pilot projects that use “next-generation” DNA sequencing technology for studies ranging from basic biology to clinical medicine.
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The three-year, $400,000 NIH grant to the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) will help develop an interdisciplinary Master of Science in Global Health program that aims to prepare the next generation of leaders to engage in clinical, epidemiological, social-behavioral, and policy-oriented research, as well as to contribute to the design, implementation and management of health programs.
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Arts, literature, politics and economics will come together this school year with a campus-wide series of events celebrating the contributions of the Bloomsbury Group, a set of British artists, writers and intellectuals that included Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster and John Maynard Keynes.
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A new funding opportunity is available to faculty this fall for interdisciplinary meetings, conferences, and events, from the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies. Requests for this academic year are due Sept. 15.
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The Institute for Homeland Security Solutions, a federally funded research collaboration, will conduct a wide range of social science and policy-related research intended to strengthen homeland security.
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Faculty in the School of Medicine and Duke Global Health Institute are testing new ways to increase the number of people seeking care in Tanzania.
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Both scholars were recruited through the new Joint School – University Institute Hiring program which encourages collaboration between Schools and University Institutes for joint hiring of interdisciplinary scholars.
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Duke University Provost Peter Lange has awarded funding to 12 projects through the annual Provost's Common Fund that represent a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship – from documenting policy issues surrounding Latino immigration, to computational analysis of handwriting, to understanding the links between the health of babies and mothers.
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Researchers at SSRI want to update the history and statistics of 20th Century social change.
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As early as Fall 2008, students can pursue MEM/MEMP degrees in three concentrations: Water and Air Resources, Environmental Health and Security, and Energy and Environment.
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Basic research in the IGSP and other departments is resulting in important advances in genomics with potential direct applications to medical practice.
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A study by Duke University researchers finds that minority and low-income communities are more likely to be adversely affected by a 2006 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruling that exempts some industries from reporting detailed information about the toxic chemicals they release into the environment.
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Particles could penetrate cells and provide important information on cellular processes.
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Dr. Michael Merson, head of the Duke Global Health Institute, says that prevention efforts should be at the forefront in the current fight over AIDS funding in the U.S. Senate.
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Crowder and others in the Nicholas School of the Environment are trying to turn their years of study on the current and futures states of the oceans into sound policy decisions that would allow humans to continue harvesting the ocean's bounty.
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Institute on Care at the End of Life licenses "Vesta," an emotional and educational story of one family’s struggle.
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A new chapter opened in the life of the Center for Health Policy this year as it began its transition to a new home within the Duke Global Health Institute.
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The DIBS Research Incubator Awards provide seed funding for collaborative research projects that will lead to a better understanding of brain function and translate into innovative solutions for health and society.
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Two faculty, both of which are involved in interdisciplinary institutes, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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The Duke Global Health Institute celebrates World Health Day 2008 with a student essay on Biodiversity and Health
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New program supports interdisciplinary faculty hires between schools and university institutes.
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Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy partners with Lemur Center to map evolutionary family tree.
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Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy partners with Lemur Center to map evolutionary family tree.
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