The 2024 Provost’s Forum explored how universities can foster constructive discourse and greater understanding on the conflicts in the Middle East and apply knowledge and skills to help address critical needs in the region. Learn more here

The 2024 Provost’s Forum explored how universities can foster constructive discourse and greater understanding on the conflicts in the Middle East and apply knowledge and skills to help address critical needs in the region. Learn more here

For her reporting for The Concord Monitor as part of Report for America, DWC Journalism and Media alum Michaela Towfighi, class of 2022, was named the New Hampshire Journalist of the Year.

If you are a Duke alum or student volunteering, interning, or working in politics or policy, please join the bipartisan

Join us on Tuesday, November 7th for a conversation with investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Corey Johnson at 5:45pm in Sanford 04. For parking, the Science Drive Visitor Lot and the Bryan Center Parking Garage are the cloest and easiest options. Please email katie.rains@duke.edu with any questions. Please RSVP for this event. 

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos will direct a new Johns Hopkins health policy, research, and practice institute that will be based in Washington, D.C.  He steps down Oct. 1. Nursing faculty Michael Relf will serve as interim dean.

Helping others has always been the focus of Quauhtli's life and career.

When: Friday, June 30 from 17h30 - 19h00

While pursuing her degree in electrical and computer engineering at Duke, Cassidee Kido participated on three Bass Connections teams that helped fuel her passion for energy and the environment. Now a project manager at Energy Solutions, she reflects on the ways her project teams honed her skills and inspired her current work.

In 2013, the first Bass Connections research teams embarked on ambitious projects to tackle real-world challenges ranging from gender inequality in STEM education to children’s mental health to climate policy in the U.S. to rural poverty. Since then, the program has supported nearly 500 interdisciplinary teams and brought together more than 4,000 faculty, students and staff to conduct cutting-edge research spanning dozens of disciplinary fields and world regions.

When Jasmine Daniel became a Blue Devil, she immediately began to notice the complex relationship between Duke and Durham. She was already interested in research, community engagement and education, having participated in the Knowledge in the Service of Society (KISS) FOCUS cluster as a first year, so when she heard about a Bass Connections team

Since 2013, the Education & Human Development theme of Bass Connections (EHD) has engaged students and faculty in interdisciplinary research exploring the range of factors contributing to positive life outcomes from personal and communal health to social and familial connections to income and employment to happiness.

Three new Bass Connections project teams starting this fall will address issues related to democracy and the challenges of sustaining strong democratic institutions in a polarized world.

Every year Duke Alumni Engagement and Development presents awards to alumni who embody the spirit of Forever Duke and advance the Duke ideal of “knowledge in the service of society.” Congratulations to our Sanford 2022 Winners!

Many people credit college with saving them, but Duke actually saved Chasity Boyce's life when she was a baby.  She was born in High Point, but was airlifted to Duke, where doctors were able to diagnois and treat her. Boyce grew up determined to attend Duke and to give back to her community and to her college. https://sanford.duke.edu/story/chasity-boyce-pps06-duke-saved-my-life/

Deondra Rose, associate professor of public policy, political science and history in the Sanford School of Public Policy and director of Polis: the Center for Politics, has been named by Duke University as a Bass Chair in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching and research.

Rose will be the Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor, effective July 1 for a five-year term. She will become a lifetime member of the Bass Society of Fellows.

Paul Teller '93 hosted a dinner for alumni with varying ideologies interested in engaging in meaningful dialogue about policy and politics.  Attendees enjoyed an evening of respectful conversation with the goal of listening first and finding common ground. Thank you Paul for your generosity in hosting the dinner!

The Duke University Energy Initiative has unveiled its newest cohort of Energy Data Analytics Ph.D.

We still live in times where the struggle for human rights continues. All individuals deserve to be protected against discrimination, human rights violations and basic indecency. All people regardless of background should be respected and their rights protected.

The Sanford MPP Mentoring Program matches current MPP students with MPP alumni who offer support and guidance based on their own educational and professional experiences. Mentors meet with their mentees (often virtually) at least once per month from the middle of their first year through the middle of their second year. Registration will become available in January.

Sanford alumni serve in a variety of ways. You are invited to volunteer in critical roles that will contribute to the growth, leadership and future of our program and the world. Check out the variety of opportunities available here: https://sanford.duke.edu/connect/alumni-friends/volunteer

"Public policy has never been more essential to tackle the world’s greatest challenges," writes Dean Judith Kelley in Sanford's 2020 Annual Report.  The Sanford Annual Report is available online (and it’s much more interesting than your typical annual report!) https://sites.sanford.duke.edu/annualreport/

Professors Jun Yang (computer science) and Bill Adair (journalism and public policy) will discuss their work in automated fact-checking on Tuesday, October 20^th at 4:30 p.m..

Check out this new initiative, Call + Response, a program for Black/African-American students graduating college this year (2020) with an Associate's or Bachelor's in political science, government affairs, international relations or other related majors. 

In 2018, AGS partnered with a team of scholar-practitioners from Johns Hopkins University, and University of Texas-Austin to launch a consortium to better prepare the next generation to confront geopolitical challenges and better understand American national interests abroad. 

Next Year Duke AGS will host our first Post-Doc Fellow as part of the America in the World Consortium.