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2022 Events Schedule

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On September 29, 2021

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Upcoming Events

Responsible Conduct for Research at DKU — 04.22 (Friday)

Jing Bai, Associate Director of Research Support Office

 

Workshop on Student Evaluation — 04.15 (Friday)

Marcia France, Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Katherine Robertson, Director of Faculty Advancement

Ying Xiong, Associate Dean of Assessment Office

 

Appropriate Use of Research Fund — 04.08 (Friday)

Jing Bai, Associate Director of Research Support Office

 

Professional Development & Leadership Workshop — 04.08 & 05.06 (Fridays)

Anna Miller, Founder of Suzhou Grow&Glow Consulting Co., Ltd.

 

Funding Opportunities for Research — 04.06 (Wednesday)

Jing Bai, Associate Director of Research Support Office

 

Planning for a Sabbatical: The Importance of Good Planning for Making the Most of your Sabbatical Opportunity — 03.28 (Monday)

 

Floyd Beckford, Professor of Chemistry

Marcia France, Dean of Undergraduate Studies

Jason Gainous, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies

James Miller, Professor of Humanities

Katherine Robertson, Director of Faculty Advancement

 

Cluster Coordinator Retreat — 03.24 & 03.25 (Thursday & Friday)

 

General Intro to Research at DKU — 03.23 (Wednesday)

Jing Bai, Associate Director of Research Support Office

 

Info Session & Panel Discussion on the Engagement with Overseas NGOs — 03.04 (Friday)

Binbin Li, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science

Robin Wang, Associate Director of International Relations Office

 

Training (Faculty Advisor Program for Student Care) — 01.21, 02.18 & 03. 25

Charlie Clausen, Assistant Dean of Residence Life

Echo Zhao, Senior Coordinator of Residential Education

 

Reception (Faculty Buddy Program) — 01.17 & 01.19 (Monday & Wednesday)

 

New Faculty Orientation — 01.05 (Wednesday)

 

Link to past events

Junior Faculty Research Seminar Series-04

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On February 15, 2021

In Junior Faculty Research Seminar, Research, Workshop

Benjamin Anderson, Assistant Professor of Global Health is scheduled to give a seminar to introduce his study proposal in February (see below). Please email fx28@duke.edu if you want to get the Zoom link.

Presentation date& time: February 26 (Friday) 9:30-10:30 am Beijing Time via Zoom
• 30mins presentation
• 30mins Q&A

Pork production in China is rapidly increasing and swine production operations continue to expand to meet demand. Disease outbreaks can readily threaten these production sites resulting in large economic losses. Recent disease examples include porcine epidemic diarrheal virus (PEDV), highly pathogenic porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2), and African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV). The movement of pathogens between humans and animals (zoonoses) also pose a unique challenge for disease control in swine production settings. Surveillance within swine farms can be an effective approach for the early identification of new disease threats and the mitigation of transmission before broad dissemination among a herd occurs. However, due to being moderately invasive, standard surveillance practices might not always be feasible as they may disrupt normal production operations. Furthermore, the cost of conducting surveillance, particularly in large-scale settings, could also be a barrier to its routine implementation. Non-invasive environmental bioaerosol sampling could be an effective and affordable approach for conducting routine surveillance in farms, providing an additional tool for farmers to protect their animals and themselves from new disease threats.

In this proposed two year prospective epidemiological study, we aim to 1) use a novel bioaerosol sampling approach to determine the prevalence of known swine pathogens; 2) apply a pathogen discovery algorithm to identify new disease threats; 2) evaluate the transmission dynamics of detected pathogens by comparing bioaerosol sampling, with water, fecal slurry, and surface sampling data; 4) characterize zoonotic transmission risk of detected pathogens by also studying swine worker sera and nasal wash samples.

  • Greg Gray, Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases;Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Professor, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases”, Duke
  • Charlie Nunn, Gosnell Family Professor in Global Health, Duke
  • Chris Woods, Duke
  • L Gayani Tillekeratne Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Gavin Smith, Professor & Interim Director | Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS
  • Lijing Yan, DKU
  • Jim Junfeng Zhang, Duke
  • Patrick Casey James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke-NUS

2021 Arts & Humanities Mini-Retreat

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On January 29, 2021

In Research, Retreat

We cordially invite you to attend an hybrid, Arts& Humanities Retreat. Below is a outline of the event, for more details, please see event schedule.

Two morning sessions to focus on:

(1) building research funding opportunities in the Arts and Humanities and

(2) promoting the humanities at DKU and beyond (to build collaborations, experiential learning for our students, and a more general support for the Humanities in Jiangsu).

Please email fx28@duke.edu to get Zoom Password.

DKU Internal Fund Info. Session in SS/AH

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On January 28, 2021

In Funding Workshops, Research, Workshop

This is to announce a DKU Internal Fund Info Session in AH/SS Fields on Jan 29 Fri. This session invites center directors to share the funding information that supports faculty research, academic events, and other activities in AH/SS fields. They will also cover some funding opportunities in the past or plans in the near future. If you are interested, please mark this event on your calendar and attend in person( if you can) for a better discussion with the panelists and faculty in your field. Look forward to seeing you there.

Venue: IB2050
Time: 2021/1/29 Fri. 9-10am Beijing
Zoom link for remote attendees: email fx28@duke.edu to get access

*Here’s the link to previous funding workshops.

Past Events

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On January 6, 2021

In Events Schedule

YEAR 2021

RSO Discussion Workshop (Funding Climate, IP, Proper use of Fund)—01.18 (Monday)

Jing Bai, Associate Director, Research Support Office, DKU

Library Info Session—01.19 (Tuesday)

Library Team

YEAR 2020

EXTERNAL FUNDING &FUNDING ADVISORY GROUPS—09.18/09.25/11.06(Friday)

NS Advisory Group Chair, Changcheng Zheng
MOE,SS,AH Advisory Group Chair, Jingbo Cui
NGO Advisory Group Chair, Wei(Robin) Wang

DEVELOPING A PROCESS FOR SUCCESSFUL ACADEMIC WRITING—11.12 (Thursday)

Steven Heine, Professor of Religious Studies & History and Director of Asian Studies, Florida International University
Melanie Manion, Vor Broker Family Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Duke University
James Miller, Professor of Humanities and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Strategy, DKU

FUNDING WORKSHOP TO SHARE NSFC EXPERIENCES—11.20 (Friday)

NS Advisory Group Chair, Changcheng Zheng
NSFC winner: Dr. Shixin Xu, Dr. Myung-Joong Hwang, Dr. Ming li, Dr. Jim Zhang

MEET WITH EXPERIENCED NSSFC WINNERS—11.27 (Friday)

Keping Wu, Associate Professor of Anthropology, DKU
Shuangye Chen, professor and associate director of the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction, East China Normal University
Ying Duan, Associate professor of Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University

SOCIAL SCIENCE MINI-RETREAT—10.30 (Friday) /10.31 (Saturday)

William Parson, Chair, Division of Social Sciences; Associate Professor of Political Science, DKU

RESEARCH INFO SESSION—09.25 (Friday)

Topic: Common practice, gray zones and red lines for conducting research at DKU and in China
Jing Bai, Associate Director, Research Support Office, DKU

EXPORT CONTROL WORKSHOP—10.16 (Friday)

Daniel Vick, Director for Office of Export Controls, Duke

JUNIOR FACULTY RESEARCH SEMINAR—10.23 (Friday)

Dr. Qian LONG, Assistant professor of Global Health, DKU

JUNIOR FACULTY RESEARCH SEMINAR—11.20 (Friday)

Dr. Shixin XU, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, DKU

JUNIOR FACULTY RESEARCH SEMINAR—12.09 (Wednesday)

Dr. Yu Wang, Assistant Professor of Society, DKU

Academic Writing Group

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On January 6, 2021

In Research

Dear faculty,

When the term starts, it is often hard to find time and space to write up research. Office of Faculty Affairs together with Coraline Goron and Ben Overmeire would like to organize a Faculty Writing Group starting from 2021 session3. (see attachment for detailed schedule)

The idea of the writing group is simple: we have a room booked for 2 hours twice per week (here it will be on Monday& Thursday for 2021 Session3); you come with your laptop, a cup to fill with tea or coffee, and some piece of writing you want to work on (course preps and admin are excluded). Due to COVID-19, we also create a Zoom ID for those who would like to join us remotely.

The writing sessions run as follow:
• We first do a roundtable telling each other our writing objective for the session;
• Then, we set the timer for 1 hour. When the time is up, we take a short break to refill our cups and eat some food & fruits, while chatting and complaining to each other about how hard it is to write! (light refreshments will be served)
• Then we go back to the writing table for another hour before wrapping up the session.
• Planning: we’ll try to invite guests or organize some fun activities during some of the sessions.

If you are interested in joining, please fill out the Qualtrics by Jan 6th 2021 https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_79ECTPozYEklJhb.A “Writing Group” WeChat group will be set up to communicate more efficiently about it with those who have expressed an interest. That will not commit you at all to join every week, but will enable you to be reminded of the location and time of the sessions, and also to know who will join the next time.

We look forward to seeing many of you join this initiative!

Best regards,

Organizing Committee
Coraline Goron, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy
Ben Van Overmeire, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Office of Faculty Affairs

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Junior Faculty Research Seminar Series-03

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On December 1, 2020

In Junior Faculty Research Seminar, Research, Workshop

Yu WANG, Assistant Professor of Sociology is scheduled to give a seminar to introduce her research concept in December (see below). Please email fx28@duke.edu if you want to get the Zoom link.

Presentation date& time: Dec. 10 9am-10am Beijing time / Dec. 9 8pm – 9pm EST via Zoom
• 30mins presentation
• 30mins Q&A

Unpaid care work in the private sphere remains to be gendered, with women spending more hours in care work than men. The conventional economic dependency perspective attributes this gender difference in unpaid care work to the exchange between the husband’s income and wife’s performance of care work, revealing the specialization nature of the family. Some other explanations supplement the dependency perspective with the time availability approach highlighting a barter of time between spouses rather than economic resources. Though clearly stated, previous research focused on how work hours reduce individual’s care work, failing to test the barter of time between spouses. Using data from 2010 the Chinese Family Panel Studies, this article examines the economic dependency perspective by gender and explores the effect of relative paid working hours on husband’s and wife’s unpaid care work in urban China. The results show a gendered explanation of care work. For wives, the time of care work is explained by the relative hours in paid work between spouses. As the husband works longer hours than the wife, wife’s care time tends to increase rapidly. The devoted wife who spends more hours at work than their husband tends to compensate their gender deviance by doing more care work. For husbands, the economic dependency is more predicative of husband’s hours in care work.

  • Ralph Litzinger, Professor of Cultural Anthropology Melanie Manion, Duke
  • Vor Broker, Family Distinguished Professor of Political Science Duke; Co-Director Center for the Study of Contemporary China DKU 

Junior Faculty Research Seminar Series-02

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On October 29, 2020

In Junior Faculty Research Seminar, Research, Workshop

Shixin XU, Assistant Professor of Mathematics is scheduled to give a seminar to introduce his idea for a grant proposal in November (see below). Please email fx28@duke.edu if you want to get the Zoom link.

Presentation date& time: Nov. 20 9am-10am Beijing time / Nov. 19 8pm – 9pm EST via Zoom
• 9:00 -9:30 presentation
• 9:30-10:00 Q&A

Flows of water and various organic and inorganic molecules in the central nervous system are important in a wide range of biological and medical processes, as has recently become apparent (Nedergaard and Goldman 2020). However, the exact mechanisms that drive these flows are often not known. Here we investigate the forces and flows in a tridomain model of the central nervous system. We use the experimental system of the optic nerve, investigated by the Harvard group (Orkand, Nicholls, and Kuffler 1966) as a protype of the central nervous system in general. We construct a model and choose its parameters to fit the experimental data in detail. Our model is three dimensional and is meant to include significant anatomical detail in a general way. In this way, the model can be adapted to describe other systems with other structures, channels and transporters.

  • Huaxiong Huang, Dean of the Division of Science and Technology (DST), UIC
  • Robert Eisenberg, Bard Endowed Professor and Chairman emeritus, Rush
  • Huanhe Yang, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biochemistry, Duke
  • Ru-Rong Ji, Distinguished Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke

Junior Faculty Research Seminar Series-01

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On October 12, 2020

In Junior Faculty Research Seminar, Research, Workshop

Dr. Qian Long, Assistant professor of Global Health is scheduled to give a seminar to introduce her idea for a grant proposal in October (see below). Please email fx28@duke.edu if you want to get the Zoom link.

Presentation date& time: Oct 23 9am-10am Beijing time / October 22 9pm – 10m EST via Zoom
• 9:00 -9:30 presentation
• 9:30-10:00 Q&A

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten global causes of death leading to 1.4 million deaths in 2018. In the era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the World Health Organization (WHO) End TB strategy laid out milestones and targets that include by 2030 90% reduction in the number of TB deaths and 80% reduction in TB incidence compared with 2015, and no TB-affected families facing catastrophic payment for TB. The COVID-19 pandemic globally has devastated effects on TB responses. A modelling analysis in TB high-burden countries suggested an additional 6.3 million cases of TB and an additional 1.4 million TB deaths between 2020 and 2025.

TB is a disease of poverty disproportionately afflicting more socio-economically vulnerable people, like rural-to-urban migrants who also have the least access to health services. We propose a study concept to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the access to, utilization and outcome of TB treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic periods in China and Vietnam, with a focus on the intersectionality analysis of gender and rural-to-urban migrant status and other social determinants in order to develop evidence-based policy recommendations for strengthening TB response in the era of COVID-19 pandemic and improving health and gender equality in TB. This study will consist of scoping review in relation to the impact of COVID-19 on TB responses in TB high burden countries, questionnaire surveys with TB patients and qualitative interviews with key stakeholders. We anticipate impacts via shared good practices and lessons learned from cross-country collaborations.

  • Greg Gray, Professor of Medicine, Duke
  • Shenglan Tang, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans International Distinguished Professor, Duke
  • Osondu Ogbuoji, Assistant Research Professor of Global Health, Duke

2020 Social Science Mini-Retreat

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On October 10, 2020

In Research, Retreat

We cordially invite you to attend an Online, Social Sciences Retreat, with a view to making connections and developing possible research collaborations with other JV Universities from October 30th to October 31st.Below is the brief schedule for the event. For more details, please see event schedule.

Please email fx28@duke.edu to get Zoom links.

 

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