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  Durham, NC, January 25, 2017 – On Friday, February 17, the Global Brazil Lab of the Franklin Humanities Institute will host its annual Global Brazil Conference co-sponsored by Duke Brazil Initiative (DBI). In its third year, the conference brings together leading scholars to generate new conversations between the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. […]

Workshop  Challenges for Marginalized Students in Higher Education in South Africa, the United States, and Beyond with Amelia Herbert This workshop with Amelia Herbert, Duke alumna, was an engaging and informational session on global social mobility through higher education, especially for historically marginalized populations. A combination of lecture and breakout sessions, the group of attendees discussed […]

Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, the Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Duke University Professor of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering and Psychology and Neuroscience, and founder of Duke’s Center for Neuroengineering, has been awarded the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies for his seminal contributions to brain-machine […]

Encontro Internacional de História e Sociologia na UFRRJ   Professors Annick Lempérière (University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne) and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman (University of South Florida) will deliver public talks at the Universidade Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) in Seropédica on June 13, 2016. The program is organized by the Bass Connections research project, […]

Faculty Names:   Marcos A. Rangel and John Holbein (Sanford School of Public Policy)   Preferred email for students to contact you: marcos.rangel@duke.edu or  john.holbein@duke.edu   Project Title:  Making Good Citizens: Using Big Data to Explore the Link Between Non-Cognitive Skills and Civic Participation   Project Description: Our project examines the links between early-childhood development of socio-emotional and behavioral skills […]

Dr. John French (Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Co-Director of Global Brazil Humanities Lab and Duke Brazil Initiative) delivered a keynote address at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool. His talk was entitled “Lula’s Politics of Cunning: From the Factory Floor to the […]

Portugués Nós, integrantes do Global Brazil Humanities Lab da Duke University, como estudiosos do Brasil e da América Latina, nos posicionamos contra o golpe que se implanta em terras brasileiras, as ações antiéticas perpetradas pelo judiciário e a manipulação de informações pela mídia nacional e internacional, que têm levado o país a um cenário de […]

William Pan, assistant professor of global environmental health at the Duke Global Health Institute, has received a three-year $1 million grant from NASA to develop an early warning system (EWS) for malaria and other vector-borne diseases in the Amazon. His new model takes into account several environmental factors that will provide more detail about the exact location and timing […]