Sanford School of Public Policy
Cyber Policy and Gender Violence Initiative
Duke’s Cyber Policy and Gender Violence Initiative seeks to explore and challenge the ways digital systems affect survivors of gender-based violence. Using data-driven and policy approaches, we seek to examine how to mitigate the impact of technologies on the safety of survivors.
Cybersecurity Leadership Program
The Cybersecurity Leadership Program at Duke University, a combined effort of the Pratt School of Engineering, Sanford School of Public Policy, Department of Computer Science, and Duke Law School brings together private sector leaders from various sectors and government officials for an intensive three-day program. Participants will have the chance to learn from Duke scholars in policy, law, engineering, business, and computer science, as well as from leading industry and government experts.
DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy
The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy is Duke University’s hub for journalism and media studies. We study the interaction between media and policy; we support watchdog and accountability reporting in the U.S. and around the world; and we teach and conduct research about the media’s role in democracy.
Duke Global Policy Program in Madrid
The Duke Global Policy (DGP) Program in Madrid develops the next generation of leaders on Latin America technology policy and recognizes the unique connections between the European Union, Spain and Latin America. Graduate students and select undergraduates from any university are welcome to apply.
Technology Policy Lab
The goal of the Technology Policy Lab is to provide a platform for Duke Sanford researchers, faculty, and students — to promote timely research and insights; stimulate scholarship in the technology-policy area, and bridge the gap between long-term research and real-world application.
Science & Society
Applied Ethics+
Applied Ethics+ is a full-time, ten-week summer learning experience hosted by the Duke Initiative for Science and Society. Interdisciplinary teams of Duke undergraduate and graduate students will work with ground-breaking host organizations addressing pressing real-world challenges in policy, technology, research, and ethics. Participating students can expect to learn how to critically assess policy and ethical issues related to research and technology with hosts who are leaders in shaping society through science and technology.
Center on Risk
The Duke Center on Risk in Science & Society is a multidisciplinary collaboration focused on improving society’s capacity to analyze, anticipate, mitigate, and adapt to risks. Hosted at Duke’s Initiative for Science & Society, the Center on Risk builds on the university’s already significant risk‐related teaching and scholarship by fostering new partnerships across campus including the schools of engineering, law, policy, business, environment, medicine, nursing, and arts and sciences, as well as institutes and initiatives.
Pratt School of Engineering
Institute for Enterprise Engineering
Duke Engineering’s Institute for Enterprise Engineering provides high-impact professional education to meet fast-evolving industry needs. Combining cuttingedge computational technologies with in-demand leadership skills, we give working professionals and industry partners powerful tools to improve organizational performance and accelerate product innovation.
Department of Computer Science
CS+
CS+ is a ten-week summer program exclusively for Duke undergraduates to get involved in computer science research projects with faculty in a fast-paced but supportive community environment. Students participate in teams of 3-4 and are jointly mentored by a faculty project lead and a graduate student mentor. The experience is meant as a rich entry point into computer science research and applications beyond the classroom.
Duke Law School
Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law
The Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law is a forum for independent analysis and balanced discussion of policies for promoting technological innovation that enhances long-term social welfare.
Center for the Study of the Public Domain
The Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School is the first university center in the world devoted to the other side of the picture. Founded in September of 2002, as part of the school’s wider intellectual property program, its mission is to promote research and scholarship on the contributions of the public domain to speech, culture, science and innovation, to promote debate about the balance needed in our intellectual property system and to translate academic research into public policy solutions.
Duke Center on Law & Technology
The Duke Center on Law & Tech prepares students for the growing landscape of technology in the legal profession through collaboration with Duke’s innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives, engagement with entrepreneurs, and provision of educational opportunities at the intersection of technology and the law.
Franklin Humanities Institute
Digital Humanities Initiative
The Digital Humanities Initiative at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute organizes events and communities interested in the digital humanities, broadly conceived across the disciplines and in dialog with media studies, technology and ethics, information studies, and related topics.
PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
Launched in 2012, the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, housed within the Franklin Humanities Institute, provides an arena in which PhD students in humanities and interpretive social sciences can learn about new digital scholarship, engage with its challenges, and see its promise for their own research and professional lives within or outside the university. Innovations in the digital, informational, and computational fields are generating new forms of pedagogy and shaping novel modes of scholarship. They are widening our collaborative communities and expanding the public with whom PhD candidates will engage.
Duke Health
Duke AI Health
Duke AI Health connects, strengthens, amplifies, and grows multiple streams of theoretical and applied research on artificial intelligence and machine learning at the University in order to answer the most urgent and difficult challenges in medicine and population health. Designed as a multidisciplinary, campus spanning initiative, AI Health harnesses expertise and insights across multiple schools, centers, and institutes at Duke to bring to bear the power of machine learning and related quantitative fields on medicine, healthcare delivery, and the health of individuals and communities.
Duke-Wide
Bass Connections
Bass Connections bridges the classroom and the world beyond the university, giving students from all of Duke’s schools a chance to tackle complex societal problems alongside our superb faculty. We support research teams that draw on perspectives and methods from multiple disciplines, as well as robust engagement with communities, stakeholders and decision-makers.
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Information, Society & Culture Theme
Bass Connections in Information, Society & Culture combines coursework, co-curricular experiences and integrated project teams to explore the history and evolution of society and culture through the lens of information, using the latest computational methods to understand society’s most pressing problems in new and creative ways.
Center for Computational Thinking
The Center for Computational Thinking (CCT) enables computational education at Duke to ensure that every student, regardless of field of study, is prepared for the digital 21st century. Through partnerships with faculty, programs, and departments spanning a wide range of disciplines including data science, cybersecurity, policy, and ethics, we bring computational learning experiences and opportunities to the Duke community and beyond.
Data+
Data+ is a ten-week summer research experience for undergraduates and master’s students interested in exploring new data-driven approaches to interdisciplinary challenges. It is suitable for students at all levels and from all majors.
Ethical Tech
Ethical Tech is a nonpartisan initiative at Duke University focusing on research, education, and policy development across all industries and socioeconomic groups. Ethical Tech explores issues at the intersection of ethics and technology, fostering discussion and development of ideas regarding technological innovation, consumption, and regulation. Our collaborative work reaches across industry, government, academia, and the public, encouraging all members of society to have an active voice in the future of technology.
Kenan Institute for Ethics
The Kenan Institute for Ethics is an interdisciplinary home for faculty, students, and staff dedicated to understanding and negotiating the moral challenges of our time through the energetic and capacious pursuit of good. Good pursuits are passionate arguments about what it means to be human—about who we are, what we are doing, and what we ought to do.
Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke University
Unprecedented access to data and to computing is transforming our world and iiD aims to equip Duke to play a leading role. We work with Departments and Schools to transform data science education at Duke, to develop a large and vibrant data science community with Duke at the center, and to develop a broader base of high visibility interdisciplinary research.
