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Oral arguments are in the books and the Supreme Court's decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin is only months away. How will the court decide? Will it be a narrow ruling? What could this mean for the future of race-conscious admissions policies? The American Constitution Society and Duke Law ACLU invite you to join Professor Neil Siegel and Professor Guy Charles, founding director of the Duke Law Center on Law, Race, and Politics, for a discussion of these questions and the Court's affirmative action doctrine generally.

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Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was invited to speak at Duke by Fuqua's Latin American Student Association (LASA.) We asked Uribe about his future plans and the economic turnaround in Colombia in a Fuqua Q and A.

Duke University Professor Ronen Plesser is teaching the "Introduction to Astronomy" course on the Coursera online learning platform. In this video, he describes how working with Duke Media Services, he translates his in-person lectures and demonstrations into videos and text for the web.

-- Sign up for Plesser's course, https://www.coursera.org/course/introastro
-- Read more about his approach to teaching the course, https://today.duke.edu/2012/10/courserabehindscenes
-- See a list of Duke courses on Coursera, https://www.coursera.org/duke
-- Visit the Duke Media Services website, http://events.duke.edu/media/

Bruce Payne, founding director of the Hart Leadership Program, discusses the importance of critical reflection, character, and experience in leadership development.

Bruce taught dozens of courses on leadership during his time at the Hart Leadership Program and the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, including a course titled "Leadership, Policy and Change."

This video is part of the Hart Leadership Program's 25th Anniversary series! Stay tuned for more. http://www.hart.sanford.duke.edu

"Investigating Big Oil: Spin, Ethics & Corporate Responsibility in an Age of Multinationals." Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize Winning journalist and author, President of New America Foundation, and writer for The New Yorker magazine delivered the 2012-13 Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism on October 9th, 2012 at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. The event was hosted by the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy.

On Thursday, November 1, 2012, Duke Postdoctoral Services and the Duke Office for Faculty Mentoring held a panel discussion on NIH Career Development or K Awards. The NIH K Awards, cover a wide range of career development needs. Most are designed to offer PIs protected time in which to develop their research, transition research focus, or mentor students and postdocs. The panel in this seminar was made up of Duke MDs and PhDs who had experience applying for NIH K awards. Panelists discussed applying for a K and answered questions about finding the right mechanism for particular cases, preparing the application, and finding support. They shared tips for success and for overcoming challenges. Panelists: - Steve Choi, MD, , holds a basic science NIDDK K08, "RAC1 Promotes Hepatic Stellate Accumulation/Activation in Liver Injury". - Liz Cirulli, PhD, postdoc who recently transitioned to Asst Professor at the Duke Center for Human Genome Variation, submitted a K01 and is waiting to hear her funding status. She will give her perspective on the writing process and what resources/support she needed. - Michael Cohen-Wolkowiez, MD, Asst Professor of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases, holds an NICHD K23, "Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Antibiotics in Premature Infants". - Chad Grotegut, MD, Asst Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, holds an NICHD K08, "Role of GRK6-Mediated Oxytocin Receptor Desensitization in Labor". - Dennis Ko, PhD, Asst Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, holds an NIAID K22, "Functional Genomics of Human Variation to Salmonella Invasion". This workshop was sponsored by Duke Postdoctoral Services and the SOM Office for Faculty Mentoring. Questions? Contact Molly Starback, Director of Postdoctoral Services, at molly.starback@duke.edu.