Class of 2018
Ansah-Yeboah, Abena Hometown: Dumfries, VA School: Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Major: Evolutionary Anthropology Arniella, Monica Hometown: Royal Palm Beach, FL School: Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Major: Computer...
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A sneak peak into USP Senior Uni Connor Tinen’s K-ville tent, Das Boot
Senior Uni Connor Tinen’s K-ville tent, Das Boot, featured in video clips commemorating 30 years of Krzyzewskiville. Connor has been tenting all 4 years and has always been one of first (if not the first)...
USP scholar Samuel Bagg (Political Science) discusses his dissertation work
USP scholar & CES (The Council for European Studies) fellow Samuel Bagg (PhD Candidate, Political Science) outlines his dissertation work: “Reasonable Accommodations Influence New Frameworks in Political Theory”
Black Anthropology with Professor J. Lorand Matory
On February 3rd 2016, J. Lorand Matory, PhD the Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and of African and African American Studies at Duke University presented “Black Anthropology: between Continents, between Disciplines, between Media.”...
USP Seminar Host Dr. Charles Gersbach’s Lab Makes Global Headlines on CRISPR Research
On November 18, 2015, the University Scholars Program hosted Dr. Charles Gersbach on “Redesigning Genomes for Science, Medicine, and Biotechnology.” Dr. Gersbach is an Associate Professor at Duke University in the Departments of Biomedical...
Luke Bretherton: Coming to Judgment in a World of Difference
Luke Bretherton, professor of theological ethics in the Divinity School and senior fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, joined the University Scholars for a USP Seminar on “Coming to Judgement...
Campaign Stop 2016 Features University Scholars
Duke Today featured a story on November 10th highlighting a new digital media project about the 2016 election campaign season, Campaign Stop 2016. The site includes posts by...
Retreat Symposium Discussion Recap
Ana’s Group A discussion on the word “progress.” Where does it come from? What do we mean by it? What does progress mean in biology? For some it’s a bad word. Progress vs. change,...
USP Alumnus Jacob Remes Discusses Disaster Response in the Early 20th Century
Jacob Remes, a University Scholars Program alumnus, completed his PhD in History at Duke in 2010. Jacob is an assistant professor of public affairs and history at SUNY Empire State College. He studies the working-class...
Duke Biochemistry Professor Paul Modrich Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Paul Modrich was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He shares the award...
