Deadline: November 2, 2020 Overview Data+ is a ten-week summer research experience that welcomes Duke undergraduates interested in exploring new data-driven approaches to interdisciplinary challenges. Students join small project teams, collaborating alongside other teams in a communal environment. They learn how to marshal, analyze, and visualize data, while gaining broad exposure to the modern world […]
New Graduate Fellowship Program Focuses on Race and the Professions
Deadline: August 12, 2020 A Fellowship Made Possible by The Duke Endowment in Collaboration with the Kenan Center for Ethics What Is the Race and the Professions Fellowship? The Race and the Professions Fellowship is a year-long program made possible by The Duke Endowment inviting Duke graduate and professional students to explore challenges of racial inequities […]
Doctoral Students Can Apply for Kenan Institute for Ethics 2020 Graduate Fellowships
Deadline: July 31, 2020 Each year, the Kenan Institute for Ethics awards between 10 and 15 fellowships to outstanding graduate students at Duke University. Students from any Duke doctoral graduate program may apply. What each cohort of Graduate Fellows will have in common is that their dissertation research engages in interesting ways with significant normative issues. Some students, for example […]
Changing Their Summer Plans, Duke Ph.D. Students Find New Options for Virtual Employment
Provost’s Office coordinates a wide range of summer funding opportunities, including fellowships with RTI International Travis Knoll expected to be in Brazil this summer. A Ph.D. student in History, he planned to visit film and Catholic Church archives to further his work on the relationship between Catholic thought, modern Black movements and education policy. But […]
Open Design+ Course Asks Students, How Might We Use the Pandemic to Transform Learning?
Aria Chernik (Associate Professor of the Practice, Social Science Research Institute) will co-lead Open Design+ in Summer Session II. Open Design+ is a new summer program offered through the Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative and is part of Bass Connections. This summer, students will work through the open design thinking process to create a prototype […]
2020 ReMed Fellows Will Address Medical and Ethical Challenges of COVID-19 Pandemic
Reimagine Medicine is an innovative summer fellowship for rising juniors and seniors preparing for health professions. The goal of ReMed is to foster the character, imagination, and practices needed to work effectively in contexts of human suffering and healing. The curriculum uses graphic art, music, expressive writing, embodiment and puppetry, improvisation, mindfulness and non-traditional hospital […]
Graduate Students Can Design Course Modules for Archival Expeditions
Deadline: June 26, 2020 Archival Expeditions introduces Duke graduate students to teaching with digital and physical primary sources. Each student partners with a Duke faculty sponsor to design an undergraduate course module that incorporates primary source material tailored to a specific class taught by that faculty member. Students have the option of drawing on the […]
Duke Graduate Summer Academy Offers Second Session of Free Online Short Courses
Update: The 2020 Duke Graduate Summer Academy will offer a second session of online short courses. Registration is open from June 8 to June 17 at noon. Please feel free to contact Amy Feistel (amy.feistel@duke.edu) with questions. Please see the 2020 Graduate Summer Academy Course Descriptions and registration page. About the Duke Graduate Summer Academy […]