Duke on Demand

Fannie Mitchell Expert in Residence, Mike Dombeck '98, M.B.A., M.P.P.'03, who serves as Director of R&D Strategy and Portfolio at GlaxoSmithKline, gives us his thoughts on how having a degree from a liberal arts institution affects the job search.

Fannie Mitchell Expert in Residence, Mike Dombeck '98, M.B.A., M.P.P.'03, who serves as Director of R&D Strategy and Portfolio at GlaxoSmithKline, advises students that finding a job is about more than just a title. It's about finding happiness.

As part of our Fannie Mitchell Expert in Residence program, Mike Dombeck '98, M.B.A., M.P.P.'03, Director of R&D Strategy and Portfolio at GlaxoSmithKline, stopped by the Career Center to meet with students and give some great job advice as well as his thoughts on how liberal arts degrees influence the job search.

OUTLaw and the Duke Law chapter of the ACLU welcome Caitlin Breedlove, from Southerners On New Ground (SONG), Christopher Brook, from the ACLU of North Carolina, and Sharon Thompson, from the Sharon Thompson Law Group. The panel joins moderator, Professor Sharon Holland, Associate Professor in the Departments of English/ AAAS/ Women's Studies at Duke, in a discussion on Second Parent Adoption in North Carolina post Amendment 1.

Mark Anthony Neal sits down with Brittney Cooper and Treva Lindsey to talk about ABC's hit show, Scandal.

Battlefields, Boardrooms, and Backyards: The New Face of National Security Law

Moderator: Prof. George Walker, Dean's Research Professor of Admiralty and International Law, Wake Forest Law School
VADM James W. Houck, USN (Ret.), Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Penn State School of Law and International Affairs
CAPT Glenn M. Sulmasy, Professor of Law, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
CDR James Kraska, Howard S. Levie Chair of Operational Law, Naval War College

Battlefields, Boardrooms, and Backyards: The New Face of National Security Law



Moderator: Prof. Margaret Hu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University Law School
Prof. Nita A. Farahany, Professor of Law, Professor of Genome Sciences & Policy, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University
Ms. Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project
Col. Dawn Zoldi, USAF, Chief, Operations Law, Air Combat Command

Laura Suchoski, a Trinity '09 alumna, takes some time to pass on some of her networking advice to current students and job seekers.

Tune in this Monday, March 4th at 1:30pm to watched the live airing of Left of Black's Scandal episode with Brittney Cooper and Treva Lindsey.

Tune in here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxtPzmfPCXY

What's it mean to study Public Policy at Duke's Sanford School? Students and Professor Judith Kelley give you a 50-second explanation.

A Working National Model at The Fourteen Mark

Eli Y Adashi, M.D., MS, CPE
Professor of Medical Science
Immediate Past Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences
The Warren Alpert Medical School
Division of Biology and Medicine
Brown University

Mr. Walter Robb, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Whole Foods Market, spoke to students at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business on February 5, 2013.

Nelly van Doorn-Harder recently met with newly appointed Coptic leader, Pope Tawadros II in Cairo. Her latest book, co-authored with Magdi Guirguis, The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy (The Popes of Egypt, Volume 3) is the latest volume of a three part series about the Coptic Papacy. Nelly's answer is in response to the question, "Is President Morsi the enemy here? Is there any kind of hopes for any kind of reconciliation or understanding?"


Nelly van Doorn-Harder is professor of Islamic Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She was born and raised in the Netherlands were she earned her PhD on the topic of women in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Before moving to the USA she was director of a refugee program in Cairo, Egypt, and taught Islamic Studies at universities in the Netherlands (Leiden) and Indonesia (Yogyakarta). Her areas of study focus on Islam and Christianity in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, human rights and gender in religion, and minority cultures in Islamic countries.