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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 23 hours ago
Help for New Parents
(starts 10 minutes in) Durham Connects has helped more than 3,000 Durham County families with newborns. NBC-17 talks to one of these families for a Mother’s Day feature.Posted 2 days ago
Election Monitors in Corrupt Governments
If a government is going to cheat, why would they invite an election monitor? The Duke Sanford School of Public Policy's Judith Kelley explains. Details on her book can be found on her site: https://sites.duke.edu/kelley/Published 1 week ago
Climate Change: What Do We Do Now?
Billy Pizer is an associate professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and faculty fellow at the Nicholas Institute of Environmental Policy Solutions, both at Duke University. He specializes in environmental economics and policy, particularly related to the problem of global climate change. After graduating from NCSSM in 1986, Pizer received his bachelor's degree in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He subsequently received both his master's and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University in 1996. From there, Pizer worked for twelve years at Resources for the Future, eventually serving as Senior Fellow and Research Director. During that time he took a leave to serve as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2001-2002 and, after leaving RFF, served from 2008-2011 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy for the U.S. Department of Treasury. His involvement at the Treasury led to a new office responsible for managing the department's role in the domestic and international environment and energy agenda of the United States. His research at RFF and now at Duke focuses on global climate change and how policies can be designed to be both cost-effective and responsive to the needs of different stakeholders. He served as a lead author on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
Published 1 week ago
Narratives of Bhutanese and Iraqi Refugees Losing and Finding Homes
Twelve DukeImmerse students perform monologues based on life-story interviews with Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal and Iraqi refugees living in Egypt.Published 2 weeks ago
Duke CCS Certificate Student Tracks Museum Visitors
Children in Contemporary Society Certificate student Sarah Safley explains her independent study tracking visiting patterns of kids and parents in the Discovery Room at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences: http://www.childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/.Published 3 weeks ago
After Afghanistan: Where To From Here? Panel 1
Examining the state -- and future -- of national security law-related issues in the era beyond active battlefields, yet one with persisting threats of technology-empowered terrorists, and one with rising peer-competitors.Opening Remarks: Professor Charles Dunlap, LENS Executive Director
Panel 1: International Human Rights Law: Lessons Learned and Challenges for the Future
Moderator: Professor Joseph Blocher, Duke Law School
Professor Madeline Morris, Duke Law School
Andrew Woods, Harvard Law School
Professor Saira Mohamed, UC Berkeley Law School
Published 3 weeks ago
The State in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Professor Kadivar talks about the future of secularism in Iran.Published 4 weeks ago
Amendment One: Voting on Marriage in North Carolina
On May 8th, North Carolina residents will vote on Amendment One, which proposes adding a clause to the state constitution that would define marriage as being only between a man and a woman.Janie Long, director of Duke's Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Life (LGBT), opposes the amendment and is concerned about how its passage might affect Duke students and families. Long, a 1981 graduate of Duke Divinity School, has served as the director of the LGBT center since 2006.
Joining her will be Duke alumnus Steven Petrow, a former president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Petrow has written numerous books and columns on LGBT issues. His work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, NPR, The Huffington Post and elsewhere.
In a live "Office Hours" interview on April 12, 2012, Long and Petrow discuss Amendment One and its implications. Conducting the interview is David Jarmul, Duke's associate vice president of news and communications.
Published 1 month ago
Impact of Race on Juries in Two Florida Counties
Juries formed from all-white jury pools in Florida convicted black defendants 16 percent more often than white defendants, a gap that was nearly eliminated when at least one member of the jury pool was black, according to a Duke University-led study.The researchers examined more than 700 non-capital felony criminal cases in Sarasota and Lake counties from 2000-2010 and looked at the effects of the age, race and gender of jury pools on conviction rates.
"I think this is the first strong and convincing evidence that the racial composition of the jury pool actually has a major effect on trial outcomes," said senior author Patrick Bayer, chairman of Duke's Economics Department.
Press release: https://today.duke.edu/2012/04/jurystudy
Study: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4595/1
Published 1 month ago
Foreign Policy in the Presidential Election
Duke University Professor Peter Feaver says one unusual aspect of this year's election is that the Democratic candidate, President Obama, is polling better on national security issues than on many domestic issues. Feaver says domestic issues often trump foreign policy matters in the minds of voters, unless an international incident flares up. Feaver served on President George W. Bush's national security team from 2005 to 2007 as the special advisor for strategic planning and institutional reform. He was also a member of the National Security Council staff under President Clinton. At Duke, he is a professor of political science and public policy and directs the university's American Grand Strategy program as well as the Triangle Institute for Security Studies.Published 1 month ago
J. Kameron Carter on Religion and Race
Race and religion continue to be flash points in American politics and society. In his book "Race: A Theological Account" J. Kameron Carter examines the role of Christianity and Western philosophy in the making of modern perceptions of race. He also uses slave narratives and early Christian thought to find theological arguments he says can counter modern misunderstandings of race and point to a new orientation for the faith. In a live "Office Hours" conversation April 5, 2012, the Divinity School professor answers questions from online viewers about the connection between the identity of Jesus and the concept of race. Hosting the conversation is James Todd from Duke's Office of News and Communications.Published 1 month ago
30-Second Sanford Memories: The First Class in the New Building
http://sanford.duke.edu , Ryon Lordos, MPP'96.Published 1 month ago
Technology for Journalism
Sarah Cohen, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, thinks the rise of digital media doesn't have to signal a decline in watchdog reporting -- rather, it can facilitate it. In a live, interactive webcast March 29, 2012, she answered viewer questions about changing approaches to journalism. Duke senior Sarah Krueger conducts the interview.Published 1 month ago
Startup Life in Durham
Alison Dorsey is an alumnus of Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy's Enterprising Leadership Initiative ('09). Currently leading a startup team for the new venture, Entasso, Alison is launching her venture in Durham--and part of a community helping to get others do the same. Hear Alison's thoughts on why Durham is the best place in the world to work to change the world.Published 1 month ago
