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Reducing Water Pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water's priorities have been reducing nutrient pollution in important water bodies stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico as well as improving management of storm water pollution. Ellen Gilinsky, who was recently appointed to serve as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Water, gave a lecture at Duke discussing the EPA's efforts to reduce these pollutants from urban and agricultural sources.Published 1 year ago
Law and Social Change Symposoium: A Just Transition to a Green Economy (Panel 3)
Panel 3 -- Showcase of Local Work: Moderator: Jedediah Purdy, Professor of Law, Duke UniversityChris Brook, Attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice Judy Kincaid, Executive Director of Clean Energy Durham
Randy Strobo*, environmental attorney
Hope Taylor, Executive Director of Clean Water for North Carolina
About the Forum: The Forum's is to foster progressive discussion around important social issues. Each year the students on the journal select a theme which serves as the subject for lunch events, an annual publication of scholarly articles, and an annual symposium.
About the theme: This year's theme explores how to ensure the
environmental and economic benefits of a green economy are extended to
communities that have been disproportionately burdened by our fossil-fuel
based economy. We hope you will join us in this important discussion!
Published 1 year ago
Law and Social Change Symposoium: A Just Transition to a Green Economy (Panel 1)
Opening Remarks: Dr. Pamela Maxson, Research Director, Duke Children's Environmental Health InitiativePanel 1 -- Broadening the Energy/Environmental Discourse: Why and How
Moderator: Michelle Nowlin, Senior Lecturing Fellow and Supervising Attorney
for Duke's Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
Caroline Farrell*, Director of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Michael Rawson*, Co-Director of the Public Interest Law Project
Chandra Taylor, Senior Attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center
About the Forum: The Forum's is to foster progressive discussion around important social issues. Each year the students on the journal select a theme which serves as the subject for lunch events, an annual publication of scholarly articles, and an annual symposium.
About the theme: This year's theme explores how to ensure the
environmental and economic benefits of a green economy are extended to communities that have been disproportionately burdened by our fossil-fuel based economy.
Published 1 year ago
Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences
The Program for Advanced Research in the Social Sciences (PARISS) has as its central mission provision of a coherent and integrated understanding of quantitative approaches in the social sciences. One of Duke's greatest strengths in the social sciences is methodology, and while each social science has its own unique approaches, there is a large overlap in the techniques used by the social science disciplines in the development of formal models, in data collection, in model estimation, and in hypothesis testing. PARISS provides Duke graduate students with an interdisciplinary context in which to develop and apply their methodological skills.Published 1 year ago
Andrew Revkin: Which Comes First, Peak Everything or Peak Us?
Andrew Revkin, a prize-winning journalist and New York Times blogger, gave a lecture titled "Which Comes First, Peak Everything or Peak Us?" at Duke January 18. The event was co-sponsored by the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the Sanford School of Public Policy, and the Nicholas School of the Environment.Published 1 year ago
Duke Lemur Center
Leah Kaiser, a sophomore at Duke University, gives a tour of the Lemur Center's colorful residents.Published 1 year ago
Science Online 2012: Day Two Blitz - Cachalot
Cachalot: A Scalable, Open Access Digital Textbook for Marine ScienceThe Digital Sea Monsters Project at Duke University recently developed a digital textbook -- called Cachalot - for courses focusing on Marine Megafauna. This textbook integrates the use of text-based, photo, video and audio teaching materials and delivers them to students in a freely downloadable application optimized for the Apple iPad. Cachalot represents a new form of digital textbook, one that is completely open access and populated with current content written by experts in the field. As a textbook, Cachalot sits at the intersection of transformative philosophy (e.g. it is open access and crowd-sourced), pedagogy (e.g. it provides for location independent and just-in-time learning that can fully exploit multimedia) and technology (exploits hand-held devices that integrate computational, communication and visualization capabilities). The app integrates open access journal articles, textbook-style content (including great photos and illustrations), video, audio and animations of animal behavior and anatomy within an annotation interface. Cachalot provides direct access to the experts that contribute to it, and the app incorporates a twitter-based messaging system for students to communicate about course materials. Much of the content in Cachalot is highly accessible to the general public, providing a novel way to educate people about marine science. This application has been developed as a framework, portable to other classes and other purposes.http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/cachalot
Speaker: David Johnston
Published 1 year ago
Bridging a Pluralistic Health System in West Africa
With funding from the Aalok S. Modi Global Health Fieldwork Fund, Duke undergraduate Kathleen Ridgeway conducted research on how malaria is identified and treated in Togo's pluralistic health system. Watch the video to learn how she left her mark on the Togolese community of Farendé.Published 1 year ago
Stem Cell Fraud: A 60 Minutes investigation
Duke's Joanne Kurtzberg helps probe unproven treatments, finding no evidence and millions of dead cells. (CBS News "60 Minutes")
Posted 1 year ago
Sneak Peek: TheGreenGrok's Look at the All-Electric Nissan Leaf
Dean Bill Chameides gets a tour of and test drives a Nissan Leaf with Duke alum David Anderson. (More here: http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok.)Published 1 year ago
Neurolaw & Neuropolitics (Science Network)
A discussion with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College), Nita Farahany (Vanderbilt University), Sheril Kirshenbaum (Duke Universty), and Lawrence Krauss (Arizona State University)Moderated by TSN Director Roger Bingham
Published 1 year ago
Management of Diabetes in Patients with Abnormal Renal Function
Lynda SzczechDiana McNeill
Published 1 year ago
Gene Discovery Explains How Fruit Flies Retreat from Heat
A discovery in fruit flies may be able to tell us more about how animals, including humans, sense potentially dangerous discomforts. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center uncovered naturally occurring variations of a gene named TRPA1 that is important for the function of pain-sensing neurons throughout the animal kingdom. The gene makes an ion channel, which floods sensory neurons with calcium ions when the fly is near a heat source, causing fruit fly larvae to respond with a corkscrew-style rolling motion away from the heat source. Interestingly, many noxious chemicals that trigger painful sensations, including wasabi and tear gas, also activate the TRPA1 channel in humans and fruit flies. The variants identified by the Duke team all respond to these noxious chemicals but vary in their responses to temperature. Finding similar variants in humans may give important insights into pain-sensing. The senior author Dan Tracey, Ph.D., notes that the TRPA1 channels in humans are more likely to detect pain from cold temperatures as well as chemical pain.Published 1 year ago
Weapon Size Matters to Male Spiders
Magnolia jumping spiders size each other up and sometimes bang heads, just like males of other species. Duke graduate student Cynthia Tedore says these behaviors aren't conscious or learned, but "they're following rules of some kind. I think of them more as robots."Published 1 year ago
