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WatchJimmy Soni on DukeConnect
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Featured 1 day agoJimmy Soni '07 talks about how DukeConnect has influenced his life... and why he'll always answer an email from a Dukie.
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WatchZakaria: See Possibility in Problems
Featured 2 days agoA leading analyst of global politics, CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria told Duke University's newest graduates Sunday, May 13, they are entering an "astonishingly peaceful" era whose "extraordinary opportunity" should not be obscured by temporary concerns about the economy and other world problems.
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WatchCNN Profiles Graduating Senior Paulie Harraka
Featured 2 days agoDuke 2012 graduating senior Paulie Harraka is using his college degree to propel his career on the track. CNN's Lizzie O'Leary reports.
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WatchTracking Trees at Duke
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Featured 1 week agoTwo Duke graduate students show how they inventory Duke's trees to be included in the i-Tree program. Duke is among a growing number of college campuses using the computer program. The work is part of continued campus landscape analysis by Facilities Management, which includes studying trees, turf and planting across about 350 acres. The goal is to better understand the natural landscape of Duke.
Kyrie Irving: Rookie of the Year
Highlights from Kyrie Irving's impressive 2011-12 Rookie of the Year campaign (via DukeBluePlanet.com)Published 19 hours ago
Examining Food
A new "University Course" looks at food from professional and academic perspectives. http://trinity.duke.edu/university-course.Published 1 day ago
Voice and Song for Theater
Ellen Hemphill's "Voice and Song for Theater" class at Duke University gave their final performances in April 2012 in Brody Theater.Published 1 day ago
Jimmy Soni on DukeConnect
Jimmy Soni '07 talks about how DukeConnect has influenced his life... and why he'll always answer an email from a Dukie.Published 2 days ago
CNN Profiles Graduating Senior Paulie Harraka
Duke 2012 graduating senior Paulie Harraka is using his college degree to propel his career on the track. CNN's Lizzie O'Leary reports.Posted 2 days ago
North Carolina: Social Issues Bellwether
Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and economics, discusses the state's same-sex vote and what it might mean for November.Posted 22 hours ago
'American Bandstand' & the Civil Rights Movement
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype by Professor Matthew Delmont (Scripps College), author of the just published The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock N’ Roll and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia. (University of California Press) Neal and Delmont discuss the racial politics in the city of Philadelphia in the 1950s that informed American Bandstand’s early practices of limiting the presence of Black kids in the show’s early years as well as the role of the show in constructing an idealized image American youth. Delmont also highlights the role of Black media personalities Mitch Thomas and Georgie Woods in the success of American Bandstand.Later, Neal is joined, also via Skype by designer, curator, illustrator, cartoonist, and award-winning graphic novelist John Jennings, author (with Damien Duffy) of Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art & Culture. Jennings, a Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Buffalo, discusses the importance on visual literacy, the challenges within the comic industry to address race, the labor of racial stereotypes, and the recent Tupac hologram.
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Words, Images and Literacy
Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Dream Hampton to talk about her writting and filmmaking. Later, Mark is joined by Elaine Richardson to talk about her upcoming conference and book.Published 6 days ago
Stanley Hauerwas on Moral Fragmentation
Part of an interview series with Duke University Divinity School faculty looking at the hidden wounds of war and the Church's resources that can help those in recovery.Published 6 days ago
Tracking Trees at Duke
Two Duke graduate students show how they inventory Duke's trees to be included in the i-Tree program. Duke is among a growing number of college campuses using the computer program. The work is part of continued campus landscape analysis by Facilities Management, which includes studying trees, turf and planting across about 350 acres. The goal is to better understand the natural landscape of Duke.Published 1 week ago