Although I am a student in Cathy Davidson’s graduate class 21st Century Literacies (http://sites.duke.edu/english890s_01_s2013/), the first time I heard Dr. Davidson’s speak formally was at the USP Seminar this past Wednesday. I like to...
“Africa, Journalism & Academia” with Professor Stephen Smith (spastic note-taking by Dhrusti) Tori goes over Prof. Smith’s credentials—awesommee For the U.S, “Africa is a niche” but it’s one that’s expanding and that’s great Storytime!!...
Thanks to Meg Shea for this recap! Summary of USP Seminar on Symposium Planning 1/10/13: A group of Unis got together on 1/10/13 to discuss the symposium. We started off breaking into smaller groups...
On the previous blog post, folks submitted ideas for symposium presentation ideas in response to the email that Sam sent out over winter break. Sam compiled these replies and categorized them according to the...
Undergraduate Uni, Linda Cao, Trinity ’14, interviewed graduate Uni Chris Paul, to find out what he was working on during his time between graduating from Duke as a Robertson Scholar in 2006 and what...
Melinda Gates, Trinity ’86 and Fuqua ’87, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will be Duke University’s 2013 Commencement Speaker. The Gates’ helped launch the University Scholars Program in 1998 with a...
Yesterday, I awoke, as usual, to NPR’s “Morning Edition” on my clock radio. Sometimes, I manage to snooze through the stories, but my curiosity was piqued by the interview on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009,...
Julie Klein has been working on “interdisciplinarity” for almost 20 years and is author of numerous books. Here’s her latest work from the Journal of Social Science Education, “A Platform for a Shared Discourse...
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