Duke University Political Science doctoral student and DUCIS Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow Seth Cantey was recently interviewed about his experience with FLAS. (…)
foreign language, Foreign Language and Area Studies, graduate students, grant, Middle East, undergraduate students
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Tue, September 20, 2011 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM West Union Old Trinity Room. This year the area studies centers at Duke awarded over 50 FLAS Fellowships. These fellowships, funded by US Department of Education Title VI funds, support graduate students engaged in foreign language and area studies with an emphasis on less commonly taught languages such as Haitian Creole, (…)
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On May 11, 2011 Dean Chameides of the Nicholas School announced that Meredith A. Barrett has been chosen as this year’s winner of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Student Manuscript for her dissertation: “Modeling the effects of illicit rosewood logging in Madagascar: A call for CITES designation”, which was published in Science, Volume 328 (5/28/2010). Her dissertation research (…)
Africa, ecology, environment, graduate students, health, In the News, research grants, working group
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The Global Health Working Group (GHWG), one of the Graduate Seminars on Global Issues that the Duke University Center for International Studies sponsors, was recently highlighted by The Lancet. GHWG is a broadly interdisciplinary gathering of graduate students from across the university and professional schools who gather regularly during the academic year to discuss topics relevant to our individual (…)
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Meredith A. Barret, past recipient of a DUCIS research and travel award for her work on Lemur disease ecology: Linking health, ecosystem viability & conservation in Madagascar, has co-authored an article published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment entitled “Integrating a One Health approach in education to address global health and sustainability challenges,” calling for more interdisciplinary education to (…)
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Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African-American Studies and Harvard University and Co-Director of the Successful Societies Project, will speak on her book, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, (and what graduate students can learn from this!) (…)
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Travel reports submitted by recipients of DUCIS’ research and travel grants.
Funding Opportunities, graduate students, grants, research grants, travel grants, undergraduate students
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When: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Where: Friedl Atrium
Cost: Free
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Description: Please join the Duke University Center for International Studies and the Polygraph collective for a roundtable discussion with Tim Morton and Kathy Rudy.
Friday, April 17 | Friedl 115 | 5-7pm
Food and drink will be (…)
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When: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Description: Dr. Daniel Schmitt, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, Topic: “Evolution, Obesity, and Arthritis: Understanding Human Health from an Evolutionary Perspective” The University Seminar on Global Health is open to the public. The series brings together a multi-disciplinary group of faculty (…)
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When: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 028
Cost: Please RSVP
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Description: Speaker: Tom Quinn, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health Dinner served at 7:15pm, Program commences at 7:30pm (…)
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