Deadline: July 15, 2018 The PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge seeks PhD Lab Scholars for 2018-19. The purpose of the PhD Lab is to foster innovative new digital research and teaching practices in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. This program is targeted at PhD students at Duke who are interested in sustained engagement in […]
Deadline: August 6, 2018 (Letter of Intent) Introduction The Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) invites proposals for the Faculty-in-Residence Program for the 2019 and 2020 academic years. This program will support the career development of a faculty abroad, and further strengthen collaboration at a selected partner location. Eligibility Criteria Eligible candidates include a faculty member […]
We are all data scientists these days, to one degree or another. The ability to explore and analyze data helps us make sense of our world. Duke’s Data Expeditions program aims to introduce more undergraduates to data science early in their college education. The Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), in partnership with the Social Science […]
Ruxandra Popovici, a Ph.D. student in Environment, teamed up with Emilio Blanco Gonzalez and Adam Cullen, master’s students in Mechanical Engineering, on a proposal to help a rural Mexican community develop a renewable energy strategy and a business plan for sustainable ecotourism. They received a Duke Support for Interdisciplinary Graduate Networks (D-SIGN) grant from the […]
The Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB) and the Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine (CAGPM) partnered with North Carolina Central University to launch the Summer Scholars Program in Genome Sciences and Medicine, supported an R25 grant by the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH. This annual 10-week program is […]
The growth of energy-related data in the last decade has created new opportunities for data-driven exploration of solutions to energy problems. Capitalizing on the opportunities presented by this wealth of data will require scholars with training in both data science and energy application domains. Yet traditional graduate education is limited in its ability to provide such dual […]
The Duke Initiative for Science & Society announced the 2018 recipients of the Science & Society Leadership Award. Deniz Ariturk and Cameron Fox are incoming students in Duke’s Master of Arts in Bioethics & Science Policy program, which is heading into its fifth year. Deniz Ariturk Deniz studied cognitive neuroscience at Washington University. While volunteering […]
Duke University doctoral students Jacqueline Gerson (Ecology) and Emily Levy (Biology) wanted to increase hands-on science opportunities for young women and other groups that are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math. With fellow Duke students Emily Ury and Alice Carter, they created a free summer program called GALS (Girls on outdoor Adventure for Leadership […]