Duke Arab Alumni

Let's Talk About Race: Biological Notions About Race

This FLI series is inspired by Duke University's popular UNI course "Let's Talk About Race," discover the profound impacts of race in today's world in this thought-provoking Forever Learning Institute series. Duke's expert faculty will take you through an engaging course that explores the orgins, evolution, and consequences of racial classifications throughout time. This series allows the greater Duke community to gather in an innovative collection of evidence-based lectures and meaningful conversations that will challenge preconceptions and foster understandign across social divides.

Graduates, Welcome to the Alumni Network, from Duke First*

Congratulations -- you did it! On behalf of Duke First, a community of first-generation and low-income students-turned alums, we are celebrating this moment with you. After getting into Duke, choosing to make it your home, and navigating through your program here, you’re now becoming an alum. This is a huge feat, and we know that as someone who identifies as FGLI, you may have also faced other challenges – work, financial demands, the stress of finding a good internship/job, or feeling like an outsider on campus and back at home.

2nd Annual Resilience Dinner Success

On February 17, just under 200 First-Generation/Low-Income students, alumni, faculty, and staff came together for our 2nd Annual Duke First Resilience Dinner. It was an evening of good food, shared experiences, amazing connections, and exciting raffle prizes.

 

Better Together

Ginsburg gives remarks at vigil for victims in Israel

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Department Chair and Associate Professor Shai Ginsburg gave the following remarks on Oct. 9 at an on-campus vigil for the victims of the attack on Israel:

“I have few, all too few words to say to comfort you today. We are often missing words precisely when we need them the most.

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