2015 Convocation & Pastors' School
Sponsor(s):
Divinity School
Monday, October 12, 2015
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Animal Tracks and Habitats (for ages 7-9)
Sponsor(s):
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Monday, October 12, 2015
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Animal Tracks and Habitats (for ages 4-6)
Sponsor(s):
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Monday, October 12, 2015
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB)
Monday, October 12, 2015
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
No Seminar
CTSA Virtual Town Hall - Research Management Teams
Monday, October 12, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ebony Boulware
Spanish Conversation Club
Sponsor(s):
International House
Monday, October 12, 2015
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
2015 Center for Instructional Technology Showcase
Sponsor(s):
Center for Instructional Technology (CIT)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
2015 Convocation & Pastors' School
Sponsor(s):
Divinity School
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Fall 2015 Legislative Update: A Look Back & What's Ahead
Sponsor(s):
Office of Government Relations DUHS
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Machine Learning for Emerging Engineering Applications: Circuit, Brain and Automobile
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Xin Li
LIVE FOR LIFE @ Duke Your Weigh...Together Program - Duke Central Campus, The Devil's Den
Sponsor(s):
Live for Life (LFL)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
"Calcium sensors for short-term synaptic plasticity"
Sponsor(s):
Neurobiology
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Wade Regehr, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
If I Have an Interest, Why Is It a Conflict?
Sponsor(s):
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and School of Medicine (SOM)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ross E. McKinney, Jr., MD
Deconstructing actin cytoskeleton dynamics and microtubule-actin coordination: from living cells to single molecules
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Bruce Goode, Brandeis University
REDCap Playground
Sponsor(s):
Duke Office of Clinical Research (DOCR)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Duke Office of Clinical Research
Landscape Plants for North Carolina Gardens: Fall - 4 sessions
Sponsor(s):
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Jan Little, director of education and public programs, Duke Gardens
DiVE (Duke immersive Virtual Environment) Open House
Sponsor(s):
Pratt School of Engineering
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
See description
LIVE FOR LIFE @ Duke Your Weigh...Together Program - Erwin Square Tower, Room 837
Sponsor(s):
Live for Life (LFL)
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
I Need a Plan: Garden Fundamentals - Envisioning Your Garden - 2 sessions
Sponsor(s):
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Suzanne Edney, landscape designer
LIVE FOR LIFE @ Duke Wellness Expo 2015 - Smith Warehouse
Sponsor(s):
Live for Life (LFL)
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
LIVE FOR LIFE @ Duke HealthCheck - FSOB; Jenkins Conference Rooms A & B
Sponsor(s):
Live for Life (LFL)
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
WORKSHOP ON POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND BEHAVIOR & IDENTITIES: Anoop Sadanandan (Syracuse University)
Sponsor(s):
Political Science
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
12:00 pm
Anoop Sadanandan (Syracuse University)
Center for Nursing Research and Translational Science Scholarly Series: Getting Started/Clinical Idea/Innovation through Publication
Sponsor(s):
School of Nursing (SON)
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Bradi B. Granger, PhD, MSN, RN, FAAN
FIP Seminar Series - Dr. Peter Yingxiao Wang "Molecular Engineering for Imaging and Reprogramming in Live Cells"
Sponsor(s):
Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP)
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Peter Yingxiao Wang
OIT Training Learn IT @ Lunch - Online Video: How It Changes & Enhances the Way We Learn!Â
Sponsor(s):
Office of Information Technology (OIT)
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Laurie Burruss, Education Innovation Advisor, lynda.com
Controlling elongation of coding and non-coding RNAs
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Karen Adelman, PhD, NIEHS
Midweek Prayer - Online
Sponsor(s):
Duke Chapel
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Online
Haba na Haba Hujaza Kibaba, "Little by Little - Fills Up the Measure"
Sponsor(s):
Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI)
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John Schmitt, MD
National Cybersecurity Awareness
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Chuck Kesler, Shelly Epps
Painting Chromatin with Novel Protein Chemistries
Sponsor(s):
Chemistry
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
SIGMA-ALDRICH LECTURE: Professor Tom W. Muir (Princeton University, Department of Chemistry)
Stall flutter simulations using semi-empirical models
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Dr. Greg Dimitriadis Aeroelasticity and Experimental Aerodynamics Research Group (AEA) Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Liege
"Optimal strong Approximation for Quadratic Forms
Sponsor(s):
Mathematics
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Naser Tabeli Zadeh (Princeton)
SLAP Lab (Science, Law, & Policy) Info Session
Sponsor(s):
Duke Science & Society Initiative
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Professor Nita Farahany
Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels: From Preclinical Testing to First-in-Man Clinical Trials
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jeffrey Lawson, MD, PhD
Learning to Speak "Mandarin" in China: 1913-1935
Sponsor(s):
Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and History
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Janet Chen, History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Building Adaptive Philanthropy
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation
Leadership Conversation with Bill George
Sponsor(s):
University Center Activities & Events (UCAE)
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Bill George
The "What Makes Me a Scientist" Series (Speaker Raphael Valdivia, PhD)
Sponsor(s):
Pratt School of Engineering
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Duke Endowment Reception
Sponsor(s):
Law School Alumni
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
See description
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Info Session
Sponsor(s):
Career Center
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Screen/Society--New Turkish Cinema--"Inside" ("Yeralti")
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Global Education Office for Undergraduates
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Introduced by Didem Havlioglu (Slavic & Eurasian Studies); Q&A to follow
LIVE FOR LIFE @ Duke HealthCheck - FSOB; Jenkins Conference Rooms A & B
Sponsor(s):
Live for Life (LFL)
Thursday, October 15, 2015
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
LIVE FOR LIFE @ Duke Wellness Expo 2015 - Powerhouse; Conference Room 101
Sponsor(s):
Live for Life (LFL)
Thursday, October 15, 2015
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
See description
Bringing Cores Closer Together: The Wireless Revolution in On-Chip Communication
Thursday, October 15, 2015
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Partha Pratim Pande, Washington State University
Data Dialogue
Sponsor(s):
Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Bass Connections-Information, Society & Culture, Mathematics, Pratt School of Engineering, and Statistical Science
Thursday, October 15, 2015
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Data Dialogue/to be announced
Nonprofit & Government Career Fair for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Thursday, October 15, 2015
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Genomic & Precision Medicine Weekly Forum
Thursday, October 15, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Michael J. Pencina, PhD-DCRI Director of Biostatistics; DCRI Faculty Associate Professor; and Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics He will be speaking about-"Metrics for Evaluating Performance of Risk Prediction Models."
SSRI~ Workshop: Introduction to Qualtrics Survey Software
Sponsor(s):
Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology (DISM), Libraries, Office of Information Technology (OIT), and Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
Thursday, October 15, 2015
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Steve Snell
Polio Eradication in Nigeria: The Ethics of Success
Sponsor(s):
Duke Science & Society Initiative
Thursday, October 15, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dr. Muhammad Pate
Thursday Seminar Series
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM), Cell & Molecular Biology (CMB), and Cell Biology
Thursday, October 15, 2015
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Chay Kuo, P.D.
Pinnell Center & SDRC Third Annual Research Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Department of Dermatology
Thursday, October 15, 2015
All Day
Mickey's got the measles: The causes and consequences of nonmedical exemptions from school-entry immunization mandates in California
Thursday, October 15, 2015
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Alison Buttenheim - University of Pennyslvania
Genome Editing: Technologies and Applications
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG)
Thursday, October 15, 2015
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Feng Zhang
BioE Seminar presented by Jason Burdick, Professor, Department of Bioengineering University of Pennsylvania
Sponsor(s):
Pratt School of Engineering
Thursday, October 15, 2015
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Jason Burdick, Professor, Department of Bioengineering University of Pennsylvania
House of Cards: Explaining the Unfolding Political Crisis in Brazil
Sponsor(s):
Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Duke Brazil Initiative, and Global Brazil Humanities Lab
Thursday, October 15, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Dr. John D. French
Stryker Info Session
Sponsor(s):
Pratt School of Engineering
Thursday, October 15, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Jonathan Edmondson presents "Augusta Emerita (Mérida): Roman Colony and Monument of Imperial Power in Roman Spain"
Sponsor(s):
Classical Studies
Thursday, October 15, 2015
5:15 pm - 7:00 pm
Dr. Jonathan Edmondson
Global Health Student Research Training Information Session
Sponsor(s):
Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI)
Thursday, October 15, 2015
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Truman Scholarship Information Session
Sponsor(s):
OUSF Post-Graduate Events
Thursday, October 15, 2015
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Jane Morris (OUSF), Babs Wise (OUSF)
Choral Vespers Service - Goodson Chapel
Sponsor(s):
Duke Chapel
Thursday, October 15, 2015
6:00 pm - 6:40 pm
International LLM Alumni-Student Reception
Sponsor(s):
Law School Alumni
Thursday, October 15, 2015
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
See description
Wisdom in Action: Exploring Careers in Feminism/Womanism
Thursday, October 15, 2015
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
50 Shades Of...An Unhealthy Relationship
Sponsor(s):
Women's Center
Thursday, October 15, 2015
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
John Hope Franklin and the Black Intellectuals of "The Greatest Generation"
Sponsor(s):
Office of the University President, Provost's Office, and Sanford School of Public Policy
Thursday, October 15, 2015
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Professor Thomas Holt
City Council Candidates Forum
Sponsor(s):
Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity (The Cook Center), Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Duke Office of Civic Engagement (DOCE), and Sanford School of Public Policy
Thursday, October 15, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Poetic Vision & Vernacular Theology: Dante & Julian of Norwich
Sponsor(s):
English, Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature, Department of Religion, Divinity School, German, and Romance Studies
Thursday, October 15, 2015
7:15 pm - 9:15 pm
See description
GlobeMed Social benefitting Shirati Health, Education, and Development Foundation (SHED)
Sponsor(s):
GlobeMed
Thursday, October 15, 2015
All Day
See description
75th Celebration of Forestry Education at Duke
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Friday, October 16, 2015
All Day
Durham N.C.
SciComm Fellows Program: Session 2
Sponsor(s):
Duke Science & Society Initiative
Friday, October 16, 2015
8:00 am - 1:30 pm
See description
North Carolina Symposium on RNA Biology XI 2015
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Friday, October 16, 2015
8:00 am - 7:00 pm
9th Annual Duke Society of American Foresters (SAF) Student Chapter Fall Symposium
Sponsor(s):
Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events
Friday, October 16, 2015
8:30 am - 2:30 pm
The Evolution of Human Longevity and Grandmother Cognitive Health.
Sponsor(s):
Evolutionary Anthropology
Friday, October 16, 2015
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Dr. Molly Fox
"Who Will Lead? Clerical Communities, Rabbinical Education and Leadership"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Friday, October 16, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Hayim Herring
Efren O. Perez (Vanderbilt University): "Rolling Off the Tongue Into the Top-of-the-Head: Explaining Language Effects on Public Opinion"
Sponsor(s):
Political Science
Friday, October 16, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Efren O. Perez
VFF: Reflections on Uses of Spatiotemporal Visualization in a Humanities Classroom
Sponsor(s):
The VIS Group, Computer Science, Information Science and Information Studies (ISIS), Libraries, Media Arts & Sciences, Pratt School of Engineering, and Research Computing
Friday, October 16, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hannah L Jacobs · Wired!
Lock Away the Trauma, but the Ghosts Still Rattle Their Chains - Lifting Silence on Angola's 27 May 1977
Sponsor(s):
International Comparative Studies (ICS), Concilium on Southern Africa, Cultural Anthropology, and History
Friday, October 16, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lara Pawson, Freelance Writer and Journalist
Freestyle Friday
Sponsor(s):
Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
Friday, October 16, 2015
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
FIP Seminar Series - Dr. Michael L. Klein - "The Spark of Life: Understanding Nature's Ion Channel Design via Computation"
Friday, October 16, 2015
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr. Michael Klein
Pizza & Politics: Political Science Meets Basketball
Sponsor(s):
Political Science
Friday, October 16, 2015
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
David Sparks (PhD '12), Boston Celtics
here/then, there/now: Traversals of Time and Space in Art
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Cultural Anthropology, Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Nasher Museum of Art, Romance Studies, Vice Provost for the Arts, and Women's Studies Program
Friday, October 16, 2015
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Eduardo Douglas, Ph.D., Carolyn Laferriere Ph.D. Candidate, Amy Knight Powell, Ph.D., and Ivan Puig, Artist
World Food Day: Bringing Hunger Home
Sponsor(s):
Duke South Asian Students Association (Duke DIYA), Black Student Alliance (BSA), Center for Multicultural Affairs, Center for Race Relations (CRR), Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), Duke Partnership for Service (dPS), Duke Student Government (DSG), Hindu Students Association, Mi Gente, Muslim Students Association (MSA), and Native American Student Alliance (NASA)
Friday, October 16, 2015
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Kickback Friday
Sponsor(s):
Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
Friday, October 16, 2015
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Quayshawn Spencer, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsor(s):
Philosophy
Friday, October 16, 2015
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Quayshawn Spencer, University of Pennsylvania
The Information Content of a Prior Distribution and the Fallacy of Prior Spikes in Soft Sciences
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, October 16, 2015
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Sander Greenland, University of California, Los Angeles
"Manipulating Autophagy in Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia"
Sponsor(s):
University Program in Genetics & Genomics (UPGG)
Friday, October 16, 2015
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dwight Koeberl
100 Years of General Relativity
Sponsor(s):
Mathematics
Friday, October 16, 2015
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Marcus Werner (Kyoto University) - Paul Aspinwall (Duke Univ.)
Signature Grille at the Marketplace
Sponsor(s):
Duke Dining Services (DDS)
Friday, October 16, 2015
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Freewater Presentations: Magic Mike XXL
Sponsor(s):
Freewater Presentations
Friday, October 16, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Women's Soccer vs. North Carolina
Sponsor(s):
Athletics
Friday, October 16, 2015
7:30 pm
Chapel Hill N.C.
Freewater Presentations: Magic Mike XXL
Sponsor(s):
Freewater Presentations
Friday, October 16, 2015
All Day
North Carolina Symposium on RNA Biology XI 2015
Sponsor(s):
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (MGM)
Saturday, October 17, 2015
8:00 am - 7:00 pm
Nasher Creates: Saturday Sketch
Sponsor(s):
Nasher Museum of Art
Saturday, October 17, 2015
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Duke Authenticity Project
Sponsor(s):
Duke Student Wellness Center, Housing, Dining and Residence Life (HDRL), and University Center Activities & Events (UCAE)
Saturday, October 17, 2015
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
TBD
Exploration Station: Make and Take Activities for All
Sponsor(s):
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Saturday, October 17, 2015
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE TRAINING
Sponsor(s):
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Saturday, October 17, 2015
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lorne Mlotek
Signature Grille at the Marketplace
Sponsor(s):
Duke Dining Services (DDS)
Saturday, October 17, 2015
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Men's Basketball Countdown to Craziness presented by Delta Air Lines
Sponsor(s):
Athletics
Saturday, October 17, 2015
7:00 pm
Susan Dunn, soprano, & David Heid, piano-- CANCELED (See description for rescheduled time)
**CANCELED**
Sponsor(s):
Music
Saturday, October 17, 2015
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Nasher Reads: Between the World and Me
Sponsor(s):
Nasher Museum of Art
Sunday, October 18, 2015
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
University Worship - Page Auditorium
Sponsor(s):
Duke Chapel
Sunday, October 18, 2015
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Rev. Dr. Luke Powery, Dean of Duke Chapel
J.S. Bach Sonatas: Rebecca Troxler, baroque flute; Elaine Funaro, harpsichord; Brent Wissick, viola da gamba
Sponsor(s):
Music
Sunday, October 18, 2015
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Maximus Open House/Info Session
Sponsor(s):
Career Center
Sunday, October 18, 2015
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Presbyterian Campus Ministry Dinner & Contemplative Worship
Sponsor(s):
Duke Chapel
Sunday, October 18, 2015
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm