Gina-Gail Fletcher, law professor at Duke University, discusses the legal aspect of the upcoming GameStop Corp. hearings and who may be seen as responsible for the company's stock fluctuations. She also talks about the problems with companies like Robinhood using payment for order flow. She speaks to Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology." Watch here. read more about Professor Fletcher (Fuqua) analyzes the Congressional hearing regarding Gamestop on Bloomberg »
Nicki Washington (Computer Science) discusses the start and evolution of the impactful Cultural Competence in Computing (3C) Fellows program over the last year. The 3C program has its roots in Washington’s research, which is focused on identity and broadening participation in computing. As Director, Washington worked together with Shaundra Daily (Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and graduate student Cecilé Sadler to build a program that centered the perspective and expertise of… read more about Diversifying Computer Science, One Cohort at a Time »
For Black History Month, community members from University of Virginia School of Law honor Dr. H. Timothy Lovelace among African-American lawyers who made an impact. Read the glowing praise from Katharine Janes, president of the Student Bar Association, shares about Dr. Lovelace here. read more about Celebrating Legal Heroes: Duke Law professor H. Timothy Lovelace is Honored for Black History Month »
Rev. Dr. Luke Powery discusses the importance and power in pushing oneself to dream of a better world in spite of the obstacles one may face. He writes, "Dare to dream although dreams are not always welcomed. By dreaming, you may have to risk your life, or risk the way life is, but to dream is to live, so keep alive the dream in your heart." Read more here. read more about Dare to dream »
Congratulations to William Darity Jr. and co-writer Kirsten Mullen for being the Inaugral Winners of the annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) book award for From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. The ASALH Book Prize will recognize an outstanding book that engages the archival record to illuminate and analyze African Americans’ social, political, and cultural realities. While an engagement with… read more about Congratulations to William Darity on receiving the annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Award as the Inaugural Winners »
At The Hastings Center's annual Callahan Lecture Dr. Patrick Smith (Divinity) shares “[Pandemics] display the effects of an underlying sociopolitical pathology just as much as diseases like covid-19 present pathologically in people’s bodies.” Watch the full lecture here. read more about Dr. Smith (Divinity) lectures on Advancing Social Justice, Health Equity, and Community at The Hastings Center's Callahan Lecture »
The Latin America: Theory and Narrative in Present Tense working group will host a reading group and workshop series this semester. Reading group discussions will precede a workshop with the book's author the following week. Read more here. read more about Call for Participants: Latin America Reading Group and Workshop Series »
Happy Black History Month! For this year's celebration of black history, Black Think Tank wanted to feature the trailblazers who made what we do possible at Duke today. The women and men who are honored as Duke's First Black PhD Graduates have gone on to lead incredible lives. Their example, as individuals willing to push for equality, diversity, and educational equity, are remembered today as we continue to work towards a more welcoming, fair, and open campus and nation. Read about the personal histories of all … read more about Happy Black History Month: View the personal stories of Duke's First Black PhD Graduates »
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Paul Cary Jr. (SoN) and Dr. Richard J. Powell (Art History) for receiving the Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award! The presentations will be made at the annual awards ceremony at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, February 23, 2021 via Zoom Webinar. Please pre-register for the virtual awards ceremony. Founded in 1997, The Samuel DuBois Cook Society was established in the spring of that year to honor Dr. Cook, a retired Duke University professor who was the first… read more about Congratulations to the 2021 Samuel DuBois Cook Society Award Winners »
Rasheed Gbadegesin, M.D., has been named associate dean for physician-scientist development and director of the Office of Physician-Scientist Development (OPSD) in the Duke University School of Medicine. OPSD is a school-wide initiative focused on the training and support of physician-scientists. Dr. Gbadegesin has served as the inaugural faculty director of OPSD since 2018. The announcement was made today by Dean Mary E. Klotman, MD, and Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, Vice Dean for Translational Sciences. Read more… read more about Gbadegesin named Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Development »
Lincoln’s words are often used in the spirit of compromise, though historians say the President was vocally steadfast about his values. Thavolia Glymph, a historian at Duke University, notes a caveat to Biden quoting Lincoln in this way, pointing out that while Lincoln was clear about the need to stop the spread of slavery, he was not clear about what a society of full racial equality would look like. Read more here. read more about Politicians Quote Abraham Lincoln a Lot. Historians Say They Don't Always Do His Words Justice »
Duke Law has more than a dozen married couples on the faculty. In honor of Valentine's Day, two of them share their stories. H. Timothy and Daisy Lovelace began as friends that eventually led to something more. Jim and Doriane Coleman started working together at the Law School after being recruited by Dean Pam Gann in 1996. Read more about the couples' stories here. read more about Love and the law: For faculty couples, it's all in a day's work »
Dr. David Goatley (Divinity) and Dr. Jacquenline Madison-McCreary discuss Lott Carey Foreign Missions's new podcast, Pilgrimages of Surviving and Thriving, delivering wisdom from the Black church for the whole church. Listen on iTunes, Spotify, or by following this link https://goodfaithmedia.org/good-faith-weekly/ read more about Listen to a discussion between Duke's Dr. Goatley and Dr. Madison-McCreary on a new podcast from Lott Carey Foreign Missions »
Congratulations to Dr. Nicki Washington (CompSci) on joining Expert Connect! Dr. Nicki Washington is a professor of computer science at Duke University and the author of Unapologetically Dope: Lessons for Black Women and Girls on Surviving and Thriving in the Tech Field. View more here. read more about Congratulations to Dr. Nicki Washington on joining Expert Connect »
Physicians Kanecia Zimmerman and Ibukun Akinboyo discussed reopening schools during the pandemic at a media briefing Wednesday, Feb 10 at 10 a.m. It’s the latest opportunity for Duke scholars to weigh in on issues surrounding K-12 education, which have surfaced repeatedly during the pandemic. Akinboyo tackled related topics in a briefing in mid-July, as districts were debating whether or not to reopen classrooms in the fall. View the latest briefing here. read more about Reopening K-12 Schools | Media Briefing »
The Bank of America Faculty Award is typically announced during the Board of Visitors dinner in spring. Due to the pandemic, the announcement for the 2019 Faculty Award honoree was made in January 2021. The Board of Visitors selected Professor Ashleigh Shelby Rosette for the Bank of America Faculty Award for 2019. This award is Fuqua’s highest faculty honor and is given for outstanding contributions to the school in terms of research, leadership, teaching, and service. read more about Congratulations to Dr. Ashleigh Rosette on receiving the 2019 Bank of America Faculty Award! »
Read Dr. Wylin Wilson's (Divinity) personal piece in Duke Medium about the impact that the pandemic has had on Valentine's Day celebrations and the general feeling of community connectedness in our current society. Read more here. read more about Caring From Afar: the frustration of Valentine’s Day in a Pandemic »
During this difficult period, Dr. Kanecia Zimmerman and Dr. Daniel Benjamin rose to the challenge to figure out how to reopen schools safely amidst the pandemic by co-founding ABC Science Collaborative—a consortium of scientists and experts that partners with school leaders, local health departments, and other stakeholders across the state to help interpret COVID-19 data to support schools in making data-supported decisions about school policies that would allow staff, teachers, and students to return to in-class… read more about The ABCs of Keeping Kids Healthy »
Duke Professor Richard Powell was among scholars and curators that worked on "Black Art: In the Absence of Light," an HBO documentary explores two centuries of art by African-Americans, and the path they forged for contemporary Black artists. The highly praised documentary was featured in the NY Times. Find more information here. read more about Duke Professor Richard Powell worked on ‘Black Art: In the Absence of Light’: an HBO documentary »
Professor Gina-Gail S. Fletcher, a scholar of complex financial instruments and market regulation, comments on whether hype on the Reddit board WallStreetBets that caused a surge of buying of GameStop and other “meme stocks,” driving up the price, constitutes market manipulation. Read more here. read more about Duke's corporate law faculty discuss the recent runup of "meme stocks" »
Dr. Lee Baker is Mrs. A. Hehmeyer Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, and African and African American Studies. In this edited and condensed interview, he describes how science and society shape one another, the racist underbelly of assimilation, and how piecing together the lives of people living in the early 20th century can be a bit like detective work. Read more here. read more about Meet Your Humanities Faculty: Lee Baker »
From February through April, the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences will be hosting a six-event mental health webinar series, "Taking Care of Yourself and Your Loved Ones." The 30-minute webinars are designed to provide practical expert advice for Duke University and Duke Health community members and their families who may be struggling with different mental health challenges. Time will be allotted for participant questions. Learn more here. read more about Duke Psychiatry Experts Offer Mental Health Webinar Series »
The Department welcomes new faculty member Dr. Franklin Cason, Jr. as an assistant professor of the practice in cinematic arts. Cason is a filmmaker and film scholar who has taught courses in film theory, history, aesthetics, criticism, and analysis. His research interests have been primarily concerned with film, modern visual culture, and media studies. As such, his writing and artistic practice reaches across the disciplines of art history, film studies, digital multimedia, graphic novels, philosophy, sociology,… read more about New Faculty Member Franklin Cason, Jr. Joins Cinematic Arts »
This month, Duke Today featured a collection of 10 Duke-authored books detailing the history of Black life in America. While this is not a comprehensive list of all Duke scholarship on Black history, it is intended to be an introduction to the multifaceted work of Duke scholars in public policy, history, documentary studies, religious studies, African and African-American studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, art, art history, and visual studies. View the books here. read more about 10 Duke-Authored Books on Black History »
Trina Rodriguez of the Office of Information Technology (OIT) shared her poem as part of OIT's DiversifyIT program. She wrote her first spoken word poem, “Who Could Understand the Plight of a Black Man?” and performed it last July during a virtual “Living (IT) While Black | Open Mic,” a program of DiversifyIT at Duke. DiversifyIT launched in 2015 to encourage Duke’s IT community to participate in advancing inclusion and diversity in the IT profession through networking, outreach and development… read more about Spoken Word Performance Highlights Need for Racial Justice »
Nature Biotechnology, a monthly journal covering the science and business of biotechnology, highlighted Dr. Samira Musah as a part of their recognition series of outstanding and trailblazing Black researchers around the US for Black History Month. View more here. read more about Congratulations to Dr. Samira Musah on her feature by Nature Biotechnology »
Professor Gina-Gail Fletcher, a Duke law professor who specializes in market regulation, comments on the recent trading development with GameStop that for her "what is truly problematic about this is the regulators' flat-footedness." She added, "Right now, the integrity of the market is at issue." Read more here. read more about Wall Street's cops weren't ready for GameStop. They're paying attention now »
Professor Emerita Karla Holloway (English) discusses her novel Gone Missing in Harlem, inspired by a Black infant’s abduction in 1932 New York. Read more here. read more about Gone Missing: Publishers Weekly Talks with Karla FC Holloway »
The Arc of Justice podcast responds to the need for Acknowledgement, Redress and Closure to remedy historical injustices that have been faced by Black Americans. This six-part podcast series, grounded in the scholarship of Duke Professor William Darity, Jr. and folklorist Kirsten Mullen, explores how today’s economic inequality came to be, including the U.S. government’s complicity in its creation. Read more here. read more about The Arc of Justice: Moving from Here to Equality Podcast Premieres March 3 »
In a wide-ranging conversation for Tracklib, Grammy Award winning producer and Professor Patrick Denard Douthit (AAAS), a.k.a. 9thWonder, talks with legendary Jazz musician Bob James about sampling, being sampled and the significance of James' track "Nautilus". View the full talk here. read more about 9th Wonder & Bob James in conversation around sampling and getting sampled »