What's up @Duke
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Feb 18
DITA Distinguished Lecture: James K.A. Smith on Augustine and the Art of Confessions
February 8, 2020 - 2:30pm to 2:30pm Goodson Chapel
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Feb 18
La Paix du Parnasse: French and Italian masterworks of the Baroque with Sonnambula
February 18, 2020 - 7:30pm to 9:00pm Rubenstein Arts Center, von der Heyden Studio Theater
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Feb 20
Women's Basketball vs. Virginia
February 20, 2020 - 7:00pm Cameron Indoor Stadium
Recent Speakers More
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Dikgang Moseneke
“One of the lessons I had to take in: I was born a slave, I better not die a slave. I had to be my own liberator. You cannot outsource the obligation to free yourself.”
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Barbara Finamore
“One of the key messages we’ve always brought to China that I think is more important than ever is that you don’t have to choose between environmental regulation — including carbon — and economic growth.”
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Samantha Ravich
“It’s not the responsibility of my 90-year-old grandmother to protect herself from a nation-state… The complexity of the system is more than people should have to deal with.”
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Nadia Murad, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
“I fear this will happen again, and we women, must speak up simply because we are the victims.”
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Tom Catena
“Try to structure your life so you can be of service to other people. Using your abilities and talents, there’s always something you can do to contribute. It just takes a will.”
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Tommy Orange
“I write because I truly believe in the impact of what art can do in lives and to help a very troubled world.”
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Lisa Borders
“Discouragement doesn’t have to be debilitating. If anything, discouragement should drive you to open your own doors and design your own future.”
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President Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera
“We should not take democracies for granted. It’s becoming more and more common to see how they can fail.”
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Robert Satloff
“Is America better off trying to invest its resources to address problems in the Middle East before they become crises, or to protect ourselves from the export of those crises to the United States?”
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Karen M. Davis
“It is important to have women in technology fields. If everyone is the same on your team you do not leave room for innovation.”
Duke in Action
Duke Faculty Books | Findings from "Making Young Voters"
Sunshine Hillygus, a Duke University Professor of Political Science, shares findings from her new book, 'Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action.' In the book, Hillygus and her co-author John Holbein explain why there's traditionally a low youth voter turnout and explore what can be done to get more young people to vote.
Duke in the World
With a medical school in Singapore, a campus in China and programs from Russia to Peru, Duke has become a global university, one whose home campus is filled with the perspectives of people from around the world.
Duke in Durham
Durham’s distinctive neighborhoods and thriving businesses combine the friendliness of a small city with tasty dining, lively arts and an entrepreneurial spirit. Durham is diverse, dynamic and a great place to live.
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In honor of her grandfather who passed away from lung cancer, 13-year-old McKenzie Stone and her family assembled 4… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Founded in 2017, @DukeMedSchool student group Root Causes organizes the Fresh Produce Program, which provides fruit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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