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In this email: EVENTS- SBSI Conference, MLK and India: Transnational Conversation on Human Rights/Civil Rights, Demo Day for the Innovate Durham Program, 2018 Annual BOW Spring Business Conference- Women in the C Suite, Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club (EVCC) Conference, Rethinking Development: Sustaining Africa's Rise, Active Citizens Conference, Ripple 2018 Interfaith Conference, Startup Connect Networking Fair// OPPORTUNITIES- Duke ChangeWorks Global Social Innovation Challenge, SAF Story + Duke Project, UK Fulbright, Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative Tree Plantings, Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship, Davis Projects for Peace Award, Passport Magazine is Taking Submissions, Sowers + Reapers: Gardening in an Era of Change, Apply for the ZSR Nonprofit Internships, Apply for SOL Summer Grants, Democracy Summer, The GSL5 Summit is Coming, The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship

 

EVENTS

 

Sustainable Business & Social Impact Conference 2018

TOMORROW, February 7 from 9am-5pm in the Fuqua School of Business

Join us to discuss topics including: Blockchain, the future of food, diversity, the opioid epidemic, impact investing, AI, and more. Conference is free to Duke students. www.FuquaSBSI.com

 

MLK and India: Transnational Conversation on Human Rights/Civil Rights

Thursday, February 8

Ahmadieh Family Conference Room (101), West Duke Building, 4:00– 5:30 PM

the Kenan Institute for Ethics will host MLK and India: Transnational Conversation on Human Rights/Civil Rights- Reflect on human rights issues across time and place.

To RSVP for the event, email Deirdre White at deirdre.white@duke.edu by noon Feb 5^th.

 

Demo Day for the Innovate Durham Program

Thursday, February 8, 5:30pm at the Hayti Heritage Center (flyer attached)

Learn how local startups are bringing new ideas into City Hall. Come celebrate the 2017 InnovateDurham cohort. The four 2017 cohort participants in the City of Durham’s Innovate Durham program will share presentations about their company and the work they did in partnership with City departments at the program’s first-ever Demo Day. The event is open to the public and will provide an opportunity for residents and other local startups interested in civic technology to see a model for government innovation in action. Refreshments will be served!

durhamnc.gov/3165/Innovate-Durham

 

2018 Annual BOW Spring Business Conference- Women in the C Suite

Duke’s Page Auditorium on February 9th from 3:30 pm to 7 pm

Duke Association for Business Oriented Women will be hosting their annual Spring Business Conference in Page Auditorium ‪from 3:30 pm to 7 pm on Friday, February 9th. The Spring Business Conference

is BOW’s signature annual event that invites recognized business leaders in various industries from around the world to address the Duke community and beyond. The theme this year is "Women in the C-Suite," featuring keynote speaker, CEO and Chairman of General Motors, Mary Barra, followed by Kira Wampler, CEO of ‪Art.com, and a panel of executive women in startups, such as Ivonna Dumanyan, CEO of Fathom AI, Hannah Sieber, COO of EcoFlow Tech, Pamela Hawley, CEO of Universal Giving, and Amanda Freeman, CEO of SLT (Strengthen, Lengthen, Tone). The event is open to everyone, and there will be networking opportunities afterwards. We are looking forward to seeing you there! If members of your organization are interested in attending, please have them check in on our Facebook event linked here for regular updates about the conference.

 

 

Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club (EVCC) Conference

Valentine’s Day, February 14^th

The Fuqua Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club invites you to the 2018 EVCC Conference featuring a Keynote from the Co-Founder of Datebox, panels on Co-Founder Match Making and VC Breakups, and our 2^nd Annual Pitch Competition. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we will be raffling a free movie night and Datebox subscription. We are in the process of finalizing a very exciting speaker that is very prominent in the blockchain space – keep informed, apply for pitch competition and Register here  learn more at www.fuquaevcc.com. The Keynote Speaker is Brett of Datebox.com. 

 

 

Rethinking Development: Sustaining Africa's Rise

Speaker: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Thursday, February 15, 2018

5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, Perkins Library 217

 

Active Citizens Conference

Educating, Uniting, and Inspiring Active Citizens

February 17, 2018 Williamsburg, VA

Gathering 175+ undergraduates, The Active Citizens Conference is an engaging space to share experience and expertise in community. This year we’re convening around the theme The Skills of Freedom.

Register by February 8th. Funding from DukeEngage is available for interested students. 
Register here. 

 

Ripple 2018 Interfaith Conference

This conference will take place February 23rd-25th at Elon University and is open to students and educators from throughout the region. Join Elon University and Interfaith Youth Core for Ripple 2018: Healing Our World, a regional interfaith conference sponsored by our Interfaith Leadership Gathering initiative. Ripple 2018 offers a balance of structured and unstructured events to provide unique opportunities to learn about and engage with about other worldviews.  Register here.

 

Want to intern at a startup this summer? Come to the 5th annual StartupConnect Networking Fair!

February 20th, 6-8 pm, Gross Hall

Join us for 5th Annual Duke StartupConnect Networking Fair! Students from all schools at Duke University are welcome to visit with startup employer representatives, many of whom are Duke alumni. This is a great place to bring your questions about what it’s like to work at a startup, learn more about opportunities at startups, and find internship and career opportunities. No dress code required.

Here are some of the 32 companies coming to the 5th Annual StartupConnect on Feb 20th.  The event is 6-8pm at Gross Hall. 

Listing of companies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R8ax7TQUeCG2w9df6v9VyeUSQ_lS-rzuJCLkBTzxkYc/edit

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/128241254517547/

  

 

OPPORTUNITIES

 

Duke ChangeWorks- Global Social Innovation Challenge

Deadline for round 1 submission is February 15, 2018

Open to all students!

This year, Duke ChangeWorks is combining forces with the Global Social Innovation Challenge. Participants are asked to select a social or environmental issue of their choice, and work through the following stages: 

1.) Study the existing landscape of the problem to discover gaps in existing solutions (if any) and identify levers of change.

2.) Come up with a promising solution and start perfecting it by working with all of the stakeholders.

3.) Prepare a business plan and develop a pitch to obtain funding from potential funders.

 

We will select teams to move to the second round. Duke final pitches are scheduled for April 18^th

The winning team will receive a Duke prize and will also get to compete (in-person or virtually) for over $50,000 in seed funding at the final pitch competition in San Diego, CA, USA, scheduled for June 23-24, 2018.

To get ready for Round 1, please see Round 1 requirements, examples and resources.

 

Register as an individual or a team here

 

More info at:

www.dukechangeworks.org

http://www.sandiego.edu/globalinnovation

 

 

SAF Story + Duke Project

Priority application deadline is Monday, February 5 but it is open until filled

Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) is excited to be participating in the Story+ Duke project this summer. They will have a small group of Duke undergrads and one graduate student work for 6 weeks this summer digging through our archives and finding stories to edit into a few short videos to educate the community about farmworker issues. 

Right now they’re looking for undergrads with Spanish fluency, preferably with a background or interest in learning more about farmworker issues. And they’re looking for a graduate student interested in serving as the mentor/supervisor for the project. Both positions are paid.

Look here for more info about the program. 

 

UK Fulbright 

Deadline: February 7

First years and sophomores, apply to attend a nearly fully-funded program on a variety of themes at schools across England, Scotland, Ireland! Flights, tuition, room, and board are included. The 10 institutes will cover different themes: theater at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, climate change, technology and innovation, development and politics, the history of the slave trade in England, the history of conflict and relationships of Northern Ireland, medieval studies, and much more.
Learn more here.

 

Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative Tree Plantings

February 10^th and 24^th, See Link for Location

Join the Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative and Delta Airlines to be a part of the team that will plant over 1,000 trees in Durham this planting season.  Register to volunteer this Saturday or Saturday the 24^th to help increase tree cover in Durham’s neighborhoods that have historically less tree cover. Register here!

 

Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship
Apply by February 11

Through an exciting 8-week program, Local Food Supply Chain Apprentices will have the opportunity to work with local food hubs, businesses and organizations and gain hands-on training related to local food systems and value chains work. The apprenticeship will be paid and some travel (outside of home to duty station) will be included.

Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship

 

Davis Projects for Peace Award
Apply by February 12

Projects for Peace is an initiative for all students at the Davis United World College Scholars Program partner schools (and a few other institutions) to design grassroots projects for the summer of 2018 - anywhere in the world - which promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties. Projects will be selected for funding at $10,000 each. Apply by February 12.

Davis Projects for Peace Award

 

Passport Magazine

They are taking submissions for this semester's edition until February 12th at midnight!

Passport is Duke's premier travel magazine! Over 23 editions old, Passport is a semesterly publication that has always been created with care and passion. If you have travelled anywhere locally or overseas, hopped around a lot as a kid, or just have some thoughts on the travel and exploration, they'd love to hear from you! Submissions can be of any format (poetry, prose, photo essays) and generally of any length. They are also looking for people to fill other roles such as content editor, graphics editor, and publicity director, so reach out about that if you're interested! Please send in all submissions and/or questions topassportmag@gmail.com! 

You can check out past editions here: https://issuu.com/passport

 

Sowers + Reapers: Gardening in an Era of Change

Priority deadline is February 16th

This Bass Connections project seeks to bring humanities tools to the issue of environmental justice and migration. The project team will document how Durham residents in the College View, West End and Watts-Hillandale neighborhoods are engaging with issues around climate change, environmental justice and gentrification through their gardens. This work will draw on human rights approaches, oral history, gardening history, documentary photography, digital mapping and exhibit curation. Learn more here!

 

Apply for the ZSR Nonprofit Internships

Deadline: February 18, noon

These 8-week, paid summer internships accepts 36 undergraduates with Pell Grants who are rising sophomores, juniors or seniors (in Fall 2017). Host non-profits offer skill-building opportunities in research, community outreach, public policy, communications, fundraising or social media. Experiences vary by organization. Connect with peers in the program and receive professional development throughout the summer. Students of color are encouraged to apply. 

Learn more here.

 

Apply for SOL Summer Grants

SOL Summer Grants are grant awards of $5000 for qualified undergraduates to design and conduct community-based research (CBR) projects collaboratively with partner organizations for 8-12 weeks during the summer of 2018. We are looking for second or third year Duke undergraduates who have previously had an intensive, full-time, summer service experience through DukeEngage or another similar community-based volunteer opportunity offered by Duke University. 
Apply here!

 

Democracy Summer

Applications are due March 18th. 

Democracy Summer is a life-changing, hands-on internship experience. Interns work for nine weeks during the summer as organizers in communities across the state. Right now, we're looking for interns who can spend the summer in Western NC, Eastern NC, the Triad, and Charlotte area regions to empower local volunteers, advocate for policies that improve democracy, and help our state navigate North Carolina's power structure and political process during this important year of "justice elections."  
Apply here!

 

The GSL5 Summit is Coming

Held at University of Notre Dame April 15-17th

The Summit’s theme, Dignity and Justice in Global Service-Learning, aims to bring visibility and awareness to the history, richness of values and moral dimensions in higher education, including the role of faith-based and secular institutions in supporting community and international development, civic and political engagement, democracy and human rights, while also educating students as faith-filled people and/or socially responsible global citizens..
Learn more here.

 

The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship
Apply by April 16

The Blossom Hill Foundation offers a one-year fellowship to social entrepreneurs who have developed an innovative approach, program, or product that positively impacts war-affected Middle Eastern communities, either in-country or displaced due to conflict. There are two tracks of funding: Emerging Leader Fellows, eligible for up to $10,000 a year; and Sustaining Impact Fellows, eligible for up to $50,000 a year.

The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship

 

 

Katherine Black

Program Coordinator, Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (I&E)

www.entrepreneurship.duke.edu | @dukesocent

 

Request a meeting: https://beta.doodle.com/meetwithkatherine

 

SUBSCRIBE to the Duke SocEnt Listserv (events, news, resources)

 

Blog of SocEnt internships & fellowships

Blog of SocEnt full time jobs

Blog of SocEnt competitions

 

Join our SocEnt Facebook group

Request to join the DukeGEN Social Entrepreneurs Network

 

In this email, you will find: EVENTS- Launching a Social Venture Workshop, How to Fail Well, Duke Blueprint Conference, I&E Academy: Social Innovation, SBSI Conference, MLK and India: Transnational Conversation on Human Rights/Civil Rights, Demo Day for the Innovate Durham Program, Rethinking Development: Sustaining Africa's Rise, Active Citizens Conference, Ripple 2018 Interfaith Conference, StartupConnect Networking Fair, Co-Lab Learn Tech Skills for the Tech World// OPPORTUNITIES- Voting Rights Data Institute Internship, Pathways of Change Internship, GlobalGiving Accelerator, SAF Summer Internship, UK Fulbright, Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship, Davis Projects for Peace Award, Passport Magazine is Taking Submissions, Apply for the ZSR Nonprofit Internships, Apply for SOL Summer Grants, Democracy Summer, The GSL5 Summit is Coming, The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship

 

EVENTS

 

Launching a Social Venture- Workshop with Alden Zecha

Wednesday, January 31^st from 9am-12pm

Kirby Reading Room at Fuqua; RSVP here

What is the reality of launching a social venture – the conceptualization, business model design, common challenges, and success factors?  Join CASE’s Executive in Residence, Sproxil® Co-Founder Alden Zecha, for an interactive pop-up workshop covering steps and tactics to build an impactful venture. All are encouraged to attend – whether you are a budding social entrepreneur with an idea to share or are just interested in learning more about the social venture creation process. We'll provide a light breakfast. Casual attire.

For registrants: If you have a venture idea or venture-in-progress, we would love to use it as an example for the small team work during the workshop.  Please complete this brief survey by January 28th so we can include your venture!  (Seeking multiple volunteers.)

More info at: Triangle Global Health Career Day

 

How to Fail Well

Thursday, February 1, 7pm, Rubenstein Library 153

Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out, The Curse of the Good Girl, and Enough as She Is, and a leadership development specialist at Smith College, is coming to Duke to talk about failing well.

In this workshop, learn tools to take healthy risks, bounce back after a setback, and redefine your beliefs about success and failure.

Learn more here. 

 

Duke Blueprint Conference  

Duke Conservation Tech (DCT) invites you to participate in Duke Blueprint February 2-3 on Duke’s campus!  Reserve your spot by applying at dukeblueprint.com.

Blueprint is a sustainable tech ideation conference: we bring together passionate students, visionary experts, and forward-thinking organizations to address critical environmental issues.  Blueprint brings together people of varied backgrounds to address problems in a new way. Putting diverse perspectives in such proximity drives valuable insights, ideas, and awareness. This context leads to the most effective win-win solutions. Check out this video to see what Blueprint is all about: 

 

Blueprint is hosted by Duke Conservation Tech (DCT) in partnership with numerous organizations including P&G, WWF, Microsoft, and National Geographic. The event will include opportunities to:

·       Attend workshops on applying cutting-edge technologies in sustainable tech,

·       Engage with experts from organizations including National Geographic, Procter & Gamble, WWF, Conservation X Labs, and more,

·       Exercise and showcase your skills, using them to tackle wicked problems, and

·       Join and participate in a community of people with a collective effort to change the world!

 

At Blueprint, participants work in teams, collaborate with experts, and innovate actionable blueprints for projects/technologies/apps that will reconcile the inevitability of human progress with the natural world.

Sign up at dukeblueprint.com to complete the application and reserve your spot!

If you have any further questions, please direct them to joshua.furth@duke.edu. Thank you, we look forward to receiving your application, and hope to have you join us in February!

 

I&E Academy- What’s Your Problem? Identifying Needs & Defining Problems for Social Innovation

February 5^th, 6:15-7:30 pm (rescheduled from 1/25)- Gross Hall 270

Facilitator: Matt Nash, Managing Director, Duke I&E Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurs seeking to develop innovative, sustainable solutions in areas such as health, poverty, education, environmental sustainability, human rights, etc., often discover that these domains are full of “wicked problems”—seemingly unsolvable, intractable challenges with multiple, often systemic causes, and interwoven, exacerbating effects on several stakeholder groups. In this session, we will discuss and apply analytical tools and methods of human-centered design for problem discovery and analysis to help social entrepreneurs and the communities with whom they engage to diagnose and frame a problem with precision and clarity, and in such a way that the root causes of the problem, not just its symptoms, will be addressed.  NOTE:  Workshop will be preceded by an info session on the Duke ChangeWorks Global Social Innovation Challenge at 6:00pm.  Come learn how to win up to $50,000 for your idea to change the world!

RSVP HERE

 

Sustainable Business & Social Impact Conference 2018

February 7 from 9am-5pm in the Fuqua School of Business

Join us to discuss topics including: Blockchain, the future of food, diversity, the opioid epidemic, impact investing, AI, and more. Conference is free to Duke students. www.FuquaSBSI.com

 

MLK and India: Transnational Conversation on Human Rights/Civil Rights

Thursday, February 8

Ahmadieh Family Conference Room (101), West Duke Building, 4:00– 5:30 PM

the Kenan Institute for Ethics will host MLK and India: Transnational Conversation on Human Rights/Civil Rights- Reflect on human rights issues across time and place.

To RSVP for the event, email Deirdre White at deirdre.white@duke.edu by noon Feb 5^th.

 

Demo Day for the Innovate Durham Program

Thursday, February 8, 5:30pm at the Hayti Heritage Center (flyer attached)

Learn how local startups are bringing new ideas into City Hall. Come celebrate the 2017 InnovateDurham cohort. The four 2017 cohort participants in the City of Durham’s Innovate Durham program will share presentations about their company and the work they did in partnership with City departments at the program’s first-ever Demo Day. The event is open to the public and will provide an opportunity for residents and other local startups interested in civic technology to see a model for government innovation in action. Refreshments will be served!

durhamnc.gov/3165/Innovate-Durham

 

Rethinking Development: Sustaining Africa's Rise

Speaker: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Thursday, February 15, 2018

5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, Perkins Library 217

 

Active Citizens Conference

Educating, Uniting, and Inspiring Active Citizens

February 17, 2018 Williamsburg, VA

Gathering 175+ undergraduates, The Active Citizens Conference is an engaging space to share experience and expertise in community. This year we’re convening around the theme The Skills of Freedom.

Register by February 8th. Funding from DukeEngage is available for interested students. 
Register here. 

 

Ripple 2018 Interfaith Conference

This conference will take place February 23rd-25th at Elon University and is open to students and educators from throughout the region. Join Elon University and Interfaith Youth Core for Ripple 2018: Healing Our World, a regional interfaith conference sponsored by our Interfaith Leadership Gathering initiative. Ripple 2018 offers a balance of structured and unstructured events to provide unique opportunities to learn about and engage with about other worldviews.  Register here.

 

Want to intern at a startup this summer? Come to the 5th annual StartupConnect Networking Fair!

February 20th, 6-8 pm, Gross Hall

Join us for 5th Annual Duke StartupConnect Networking Fair! Students from all schools at Duke University are welcome to visit with startup employer representatives, many of whom are Duke alumni. This is a great place to bring your questions about what it’s like to work at a startup, learn more about opportunities at startups, and find internship and career opportunities. No dress code required.

Here are some of the 32 companies coming to the 5th Annual StartupConnect on Feb 20th.  The event is 6-8pm at Gross Hall. 

Listing of companies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R8ax7TQUeCG2w9df6v9VyeUSQ_lS-rzuJCLkBTzxkYc/edit

RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/128241254517547/

 

The Innovation Co-Lab Roots Program- No Experience? No Problem. Learn Tech Skills for the Tech World
The Innovation Co-Lab Roots program a technology training workshop series. They offer a variety of training opportunities in a wide array of topics, and  they just updated the spring semester schedule with all the exciting new classes for January. Classes are free and open to any Duke students, faculty, or staff. Just register at the links below. Remember if a class is full sign up for the waitlist, and stop by anyway in case someone didn't make it!

• Introduction to Connected Hardware - Jan 24th, 3 - 5pm 

• Introduction to iOS - Jan 25th, 3 - 5pm 

• WebDev Introduction to HTML and CSS - Jan 29th, 1 - 3pm 

 

 

OPPORTUNITIES

 

Voting Rights Data Institute Internship

Applications are due January 31st.

The Voting Rights Data Institute is a 6-week summer program of the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG), a Boston-based team of mathematicians and computer scientists working on U.S. redistricting.  The dates of the program are Monday June 4 – Friday July 13, 2018.
 Apply here!

 

Pathways of Change Internship

Apply by February 1st

Pathways of Change is run through the Duke Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics for students interested in the areas of business and human rights/csr, women’s rights and environmental justice. Students intern with organizations working for social change across these fields, and work together to explore the tradeoffs between different approaches towards social change. Students also participate in an interdisciplinary seminar in the Fall of 2018 on Theories and Strategies of Social Change. Each internship comes with a $5,000 stipend.
Apply here!

 

GlobalGiving Accelerator
Apply by February 1

The GlobalGiving Accelerator is a virtual training program and crowdfunding campaign that will help you take your fundraising to the next level. Following an optional two-week training curriculum, you’ll be entered into an Accelerator campaign where you’ll raise at least $5,000 total from a minimum of 40 different donors in order to graduate and secure a permanent fundraising spot on the GlobalGiving platform.

GlobalGiving Accelerator

 

SAF Summer Internship is now open!

Deadline for applications is February 3rd.

Spend your summer/ fall meeting and supporting the people who plant, harvest, and produce the food we eat everyday! Through the Into the Fields Program, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) develops the leadership of college students and recent graduates from diverse backgrounds, giving them the opportunity to work directly with farmworkers in the Carolinas. 
Learn more here!

 

UK Fulbright 

Deadline: February 7

First years and sophomores, apply to attend a nearly fully-funded program on a variety of themes at schools across England, Scotland, Ireland! Flights, tuition, room, and board are included. The 10 institutes will cover different themes: theater at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, climate change, technology and innovation, development and politics, the history of the slave trade in England, the history of conflict and relationships of Northern Ireland, medieval studies, and much more.
Learn more here.

 

Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship
Apply by February 11

Through an exciting 8-week program, Local Food Supply Chain Apprentices will have the opportunity to work with local food hubs, businesses and organizations and gain hands-on training related to local food systems and value chains work. The apprenticeship will be paid and some travel (outside of home to duty station) will be included.

Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship

 

Davis Projects for Peace Award
Apply by February 12

Projects for Peace is an initiative for all students at the Davis United World College Scholars Program partner schools (and a few other institutions) to design grassroots projects for the summer of 2018 - anywhere in the world - which promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties. Projects will be selected for funding at $10,000 each. Apply by February 12.

Davis Projects for Peace Award

 

Passport Magazine

They are taking submissions for this semester's edition until February 12th at midnight!

Passport is Duke's premier travel magazine! Over 23 editions old, Passport is a semesterly publication that has always been created with care and passion. If you have travelled anywhere locally or overseas, hopped around a lot as a kid, or just have some thoughts on the travel and exploration, they'd love to hear from you! Submissions can be of any format (poetry, prose, photo essays) and generally of any length. They are also looking for people to fill other roles such as content editor, graphics editor, and publicity director, so reach out about that if you're interested! Please send in all submissions and/or questions topassportmag@gmail.com! 

You can check out past editions here: https://issuu.com/passport

 

Apply for the ZSR Nonprofit Internships

Deadline: February 18, noon

These 8-week, paid summer internships accepts 36 undergraduates with Pell Grants who are rising sophomores, juniors or seniors (in Fall 2017). Host non-profits offer skill-building opportunities in research, community outreach, public policy, communications, fundraising or social media. Experiences vary by organization. Connect with peers in the program and receive professional development throughout the summer. Students of color are encouraged to apply. 

Learn more here.

 

Apply for SOL Summer Grants

SOL Summer Grants are grant awards of $5000 for qualified undergraduates to design and conduct community-based research (CBR) projects collaboratively with partner organizations for 8-12 weeks during the summer of 2018. We are looking for second or third year Duke undergraduates who have previously had an intensive, full-time, summer service experience through DukeEngage or another similar community-based volunteer opportunity offered by Duke University. 
Apply here!

 

Democracy Summer

Applications are due March 18th. 

Democracy Summer is a life-changing, hands-on internship experience. Interns work for nine weeks during the summer as organizers in communities across the state. Right now, we're looking for interns who can spend the summer in Western NC, Eastern NC, the Triad, and Charlotte area regions to empower local volunteers, advocate for policies that improve democracy, and help our state navigate North Carolina's power structure and political process during this important year of "justice elections."  
Apply here!

 

The GSL5 Summit is Coming

Held at University of Notre Dame April 15-17th

The Summit’s theme, Dignity and Justice in Global Service-Learning, aims to bring visibility and awareness to the history, richness of values and moral dimensions in higher education, including the role of faith-based and secular institutions in supporting community and international development, civic and political engagement, democracy and human rights, while also educating students as faith-filled people and/or socially responsible global citizens..
Learn more here.

 

The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship
Apply by April 16

The Blossom Hill Foundation offers a one-year fellowship to social entrepreneurs who have developed an innovative approach, program, or product that positively impacts war-affected Middle Eastern communities, either in-country or displaced due to conflict. There are two tracks of funding: Emerging Leader Fellows, eligible for up to $10,000 a year; and Sustaining Impact Fellows, eligible for up to $50,000 a year.

The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship

 

 

 

Katherine Black

Program Coordinator, Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (I&E)

www.entrepreneurship.duke.edu | @dukesocent

 

Request a meeting: https://beta.doodle.com/meetwithkatherine

 

SUBSCRIBE to the Duke SocEnt Listserv (events, news, resources)

 

Blog of SocEnt internships & fellowships

Blog of SocEnt full time jobs

Blog of SocEnt competitions

 

Join our SocEnt Facebook group

Request to join the DukeGEN Social Entrepreneurs Network

 

In this email, you will find: EVENTS- Seminar on Faith & Activism, Delivering Capital & Changing Lives in India, Teaching for Equity, Launching a Social Venture Workshop, Duke Blueprint Conference, SBSI Conference 2018, Demo Day for Innovate Durham, StartupConnect Networking Fair, The Innovation Co-Lab Roots Program// OPPORTUNITIES- I&E Social Innovation & Policy Pathway, Learn about the 2018-2019 Bass Connections Projects, Archimedes Project’s Frontier Social Entrepreneur Fellowship, Venture for America Fellowship 2018, GlobalGiving Accelerator, Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship, Davis Projects for Peace Award, The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship

 

EVENTS

 

Seminar on Faith & Activism

On January 27, join Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove for a Mobile Course in Public Theology and Activism, co-sponsored by Duke Divinity School. The two Divinity School alumni will lead the afternoon seminar regarding a “freedom Movement framework” for understanding faith in American public life.

 

Delivering Capital & Changing Lives in India: Q&A with Eric Savage of Unitus Capital

Monday, January 29^th from 11:30am-12:20pm

Esbenshade Meeting Room at the Fuqua School of Business

Join CASE i3 for a moderated Q&A with Eric Savage, Co-Founder and CEO of Unitus Capital.  Unitus Capital is the biggest and most successful impact investment banking firm in India. Eric has incredible insight due to his vast network of impact investing, VC, corporate, and PE connections in the growing market for impact investing in India.  Eric is a Duke alumnus, CASE i3 advisory council member, and a huge fan of Duke Basketball! 

CASE i3 Director Cathy Clark will kick off the conversation with Eric then turn it over to students - bring your questions about business in India, supporting a growing capital market, and the impact investing ecosystem.

RSVP by emailing carrie.gonnella@duke.edu

Teaching for Equity: Lessons Learned and Creating Classroom Change

January 30

Attend Teaching for Equity: Lessons Learned and Creating Classroom Change to hear a panel of faculty members who have participated in the “Teaching for Equity Fellows” Program share what they are learning about teaching for equity, how it is changing their teaching, and how the program might benefit you.

 

Launching a Social Venture Workshop with Alden Zecha

Wednesday, January 31^st from 9am-12pm

Kirby Reading Room at Fuqua; RSVP here

What is the reality of launching a social venture – the conceptualization, business model design, common challenges, and success factors?  Join CASE’s Executive in Residence, Sproxil® Co-Founder Alden Zecha, for an interactive pop-up workshop covering steps and tactics to build an impactful venture. All are encouraged to attend – whether you are a budding social entrepreneur with an idea to share or are just interested in learning more about the social venture creation process. We'll provide a light breakfast. Casual attire.

For registrants: If you have a venture idea or venture-in-progress, we would love to use it as an example for the small team work during the workshop.  Please complete this brief survey by January 28th so we can include your venture!  (Seeking multiple volunteers.)

More info at: Triangle Global Health Career Day

 

Duke Blueprint Conference  

Duke Conservation Tech (DCT) invites you to participate in Duke Blueprint February 2-3 on Duke’s campus!  Reserve your spot by applying at dukeblueprint.com.

Blueprint is a sustainable tech ideation conference: we bring together passionate students, visionary experts, and forward-thinking organizations to address critical environmental issues.  Blueprint brings together people of varied backgrounds to address problems in a new way. Putting diverse perspectives in such proximity drives valuable insights, ideas, and awareness. This context leads to the most effective win-win solutions. Check out this video to see what Blueprint is all about: 

 

Blueprint is hosted by Duke Conservation Tech (DCT) in partnership with numerous organizations including P&G, WWF, Microsoft, and National Geographic. The event will include opportunities to:

·       Attend workshops on applying cutting-edge technologies in sustainable tech,

·       Engage with experts from organizations including National Geographic, Procter & Gamble, WWF, Conservation X Labs, and more,

·       Exercise and showcase your skills, using them to tackle wicked problems, and

·       Join and participate in a community of people with a collective effort to change the world!

 

At Blueprint, participants work in teams, collaborate with experts, and innovate actionable blueprints for projects/technologies/apps that will reconcile the inevitability of human progress with the natural world.\

Sign up at dukeblueprint.com to complete the application and reserve your spot!

If you have any further questions, please direct them to joshua.furth@duke.edu. Thank you, we look forward to receiving your application, and hope to have you join us in February!

 

Sustainable Business & Social Impact Conference 2018

February 7 from 9am-5pm in the Fuqua School of Business

Join us to discuss topics including: Blockchain, the future of food, diversity, the opioid epidemic, impact investing, AI, and more. Conference is free to Duke students. www.FuquaSBSI.com

 

 

 

Demo Day for the Innovate Durham Program

Thursday, February 8, 5:30pm at the Hayti Heritage Center (flyer attached)

Learn how local startups are bringing new ideas into City Hall. Come celebrate the 2017 InnovateDurham cohort. The four 2017 cohort participants in the City of Durham’s Innovate Durham program will share presentations about their company and the work they did in partnership with City departments at the program’s first-ever Demo Day. The event is open to the public and will provide an opportunity for residents and other local startups interested in civic technology to see a model for government innovation in action. Refreshments will be served!

durhamnc.gov/3165/Innovate-Durham

 

 

Want to intern at a startup this summer? Come to the 5th annual StartupConnect Networking Fair!

February 20th, 6-8 pm, Gross Hall

Join us for 5th Annual Duke StartupConnect Networking Fair! Students from all schools at Duke University are welcome to visit with startup employer representatives, many of whom are Duke alumni. This is a great place to bring your questions about what it’s like to work at a startup, learn more about opportunities at startups, and find internship and career opportunities. No dress code required.

RSVP now on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/128241254517547??ti=ia

List of companies will be posted in future weeks.

 

The Innovation Co-Lab Roots Program- No Experience? No Problem. Learn Tech Skills for the Tech World
The Innovation Co-Lab Roots program a technology training workshop series. They offer a variety of training opportunities in a wide array of topics, and  they just updated the spring semester schedule with all the exciting new classes for January. Classes are free and open to any Duke students, faculty, or staff. Just register at the links below. Remember if a class is full sign up for the waitlist, and stop by anyway in case someone didn't make it!

• Introduction to Connected Hardware - Jan 24th, 3 - 5pm 

• Introduction to iOS - Jan 25th, 3 - 5pm 

• WebDev Introduction to HTML and CSS - Jan 29th, 1 - 3pm 

• Introduction to Linux - Jan 30th, 1 - 3pm, and Feb 1st, 1 - 3pm 

• DTech Scholars: Design Thinking - Jan 31st, 1:30 - 3:30pm 

 

OPPORTUNITIES

 

I&E Social Innovation & Policy Pathway

This story features I&E’s Social Innovation & Policy Pathway!. https://today.duke.edu/2018/01/students-tackle-world-challenges-through-social-innovation-policy-pathway

The whole series can be found here as they go up: https://today.duke.edu/node/128053

 

Learn about the 2018-2019 Bass Connections Projects

Attend the Bass Connections Fair on January 24 to talk with team leaders, advisors and staff about the new Bass Connections projects.

 

Archimedes Project’s Frontier Social Entrepreneur Fellowship

Students and alumni are invited to apply for a 12-week research fellowship in one of 25 emerging or frontier markets to explore the water or sanitation ecosystem for social enterprise opportunities. $2,500-5,000 funding available. First-round application must be submitted by February 9th. Archimedes Project identifies and works with entrepreneurs to research, design, develop and launch game-changing social ventures focused on distributing clean water or sanitation solutions to the bottom of the pyramid around the world. Fellows are invited to take the first step towards an enterprise by delving deep into the ecosystem to understand both existing efforts and customer desires.

 

Archimedes Project is recruiting aspiring changemakers as summer 2018 Frontier Social Entrepreneur Fellows. Fellows spend 12 weeks in their country of interest conducting human-centered research and working to lay the groundwork for a scalable water or sanitation enterprise. Archimedes Project believes that locally-driven social enterprise is the solution to the clean water and sanitation crisis and research is critical to understanding what has been tried and failed in the past. Fellows receive a travel and room and board stipend of $2,500-$5,000 and the guidance of the Archimedes Project team. For more information, and to apply, visit: archgrp.org/fellow

 

Questions? Contact:

Angela McIntosh

Director of Special Events, Archimedes Project

angela@archimedesproject.com

 

Venture for America Fellowship 2018
Apply by January 29

VFA is a two-year fellowship program for recent grads who want to work at a startup and create jobs in American cities. Fellows learn important startup skills at a five-week training camp, apply for jobs within a vetted company network, and work for two years as full-time, salaried employees in one of 18 cities. When fellows are ready to start a company, VFA has the resources to help make that dream a reality.

Venture for America Fellowship 2018

GlobalGiving Accelerator
Apply by February 1

The GlobalGiving Accelerator is a virtual training program and crowdfunding campaign that will help you take your fundraising to the next level. Following an optional two-week training curriculum, you’ll be entered into an Accelerator campaign where you’ll raise at least $5,000 total from a minimum of 40 different donors in order to graduate and secure a permanent fundraising spot on the GlobalGiving platform.

GlobalGiving Accelerator

 

Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship
Apply by February 11

Through an exciting 8-week program, Local Food Supply Chain Apprentices will have the opportunity to work with local food hubs, businesses and organizations and gain hands-on training related to local food systems and value chains work. The apprenticeship will be paid and some travel (outside of home to duty station) will be included.

Local Food Supply Chain Apprenticeship

 

Davis Projects for Peace Award
Apply by February 12

Projects for Peace is an initiative for all students at the Davis United World College Scholars Program partner schools (and a few other institutions) to design grassroots projects for the summer of 2018 - anywhere in the world - which promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties. Projects will be selected for funding at $10,000 each. Apply by February 12.

Davis Projects for Peace Award

 

The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship
Apply by April 16

The Blossom Hill Foundation offers a one-year fellowship to social entrepreneurs who have developed an innovative approach, program, or product that positively impacts war-affected Middle Eastern communities, either in-country or displaced due to conflict. There are two tracks of funding: Emerging Leader Fellows, eligible for up to $10,000 a year; and Sustaining Impact Fellows, eligible for up to $50,000 a year.

The Blossom Hill Foundation Fellowship

 

 

Katherine Black

Program Coordinator, Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (I&E)

www.entrepreneurship.duke.edu | @dukesocent

 

Request a meeting: https://beta.doodle.com/meetwithkatherine

 

SUBSCRIBE to the Duke SocEnt Listserv (events, news, resources)

 

Blog of SocEnt internships & fellowships

Blog of SocEnt full time jobs

Blog of SocEnt competitions

 

Join our SocEnt Facebook group

Request to join the DukeGEN Social Entrepreneurs Network

 

Info in this email includes: EVENTS: Engage in Dialogue about Racism, Hult Prize 2018 Challenge, Social Innovation Meet-Up, Women of Durham, Advancing Women’s Health, All Things Open 2017 // OPPORTUNITIES: Propose New Bass Connections Project, Policy Engagement Grants, CivicRise Seeks Paid Marketing Intern, Echoing Green 2018 Application, Duke StartUp Challenge Applicant Seeks Teammates, Free Alternative Job Search Platform, Social Innovation Insights with Pamela Hawley, Volunteers Opportunity  // RESOURCES: SSRI Connections Bar, Global Partnership Database, I&E 2017 Impact Report

 

EVENTS

Engage in a Dialogue About Racism and White Supremacy on Oct 4

Duke Divinity School is hosting a discussion and brown-bag lunch with Tema Okun, a faculty member with the Equity Fellows Program at Duke University. Conflict Conversations: White Supremacy Culture with Tema Okun, held October 4, is part of a yearlong Conflict Conversations series through the Divinity School.

 

 

Hult Prize 2018 Challenge- Harnessing the power of energy to transform the lives of 10 million people

Duke Hult Prize Info Session October 5th, 6-7pm | Languages 211

 

It is with great pleasure that we invite you or someone you know to participate in the 9th annual Hult Prize by competing on our fourth edition of Duke University’s on-campus event! This year's President's Challenge will tackle another global social challenge, as student teams of up to four people will come together from around the world to take on the global energy challenge!

The challenge specifically asks teams to build sustainable and scalable social enterprises to address the energy issues, a new front in entrepreneurship. This theme was selected by President Bill Clinton at this year's United Nation's Meeting in New York.

Don’t miss this exciting challenge! It’s not every day that we have an opportunity to create such change, and have access to a platform that can magnify the most promising ideas into a reality. 

 

 

Duke Social Innovation Meet-Up

Tuesday, October 17, 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Gross Hall Atrium, Duke 

Meet and mingle with representatives from student organizations as well as orgs in Durham and learn about how to get involved in social innovation at Duke and beyond in Durham!

Duke Social Innovation Meet-Up

 

WOMEN OF DURHAM by StrongHER TogetHER

 

 

Durham is home to some AMAZING women! And it's high time you met them! Join us for the first program in our WOMEN OF DURHAM series where we'll be celebrating HER in the Bull City! Come hear how women in our community are making a real difference and how other women have advocated for them along the way. We'll even have a chance to hear from some of the area's very youngest ladies whose journeys are only just beginning. Don't miss a chance to hear their stories and make new friends, too. We promise you'll be amazed, you'll be heartened, but mostly you'll be proud of these women. And proud to call Durham home.

Admission is FREE. Donations to the StrongHER TogetHER Scholarship Fund are welcome.

 

Ponysaurus Brewing Company

Sat, October 21, 2017 from 2-4pm

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Advancing Women's Health in a Changing Political Environment

October 20, 2017 

1-6pm - Great Hall, Trent Semans Center

 

Join women's health and policy experts from Duke and beyond at the Women's Health Symposium, "Advancing Women's Health in a Changing Political Environment. The symposium is geared toward generating conversation and action to advance women's health research and ensure access to women's health care. Dr. Jen Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation and North Carolina Congressman David Price will give keynote talks, followed by two panels. The first panel will focus on family planning, abortions and maternity care; the second will address adolescents, sexual gender minorities and health care access. This event is free for all participants. Please visit the website to learn more and register today!

 

 

All Things Open 2017- The largest Open Source/Tech/Web conference on the U.S. east coast 

October 23 and 24- Raleigh Convention Center

 

All Things Open 2017  is the largest open technology event on the East Coast of the U.S.  In 2016 more than 2,400 from 32 states and 19 countries attended and participated.  More than 3,000 are expected from all over the world in 2017.  The event will feature some of the most well known technologists and decision makers in the world as well as the world's top technology companies.  More than 200 sessions and 200 speakers will be featured over both days.  Most well known technologists and decision makers in the world as well as the world's top technology companies.  Expected attendance 3,000+

 

Duke students just $49/day or $79/both days

More than 3,000 technologists and decision makers expected

Nearly every major technology company in the U.S. participating

 

 

OPPORTUNITIES

 

Propose a New Bass Connections Project by November 3

Duke faculty are invited to submit proposals for projects which engage faculty, undergraduates and graduate/professional students in interdisciplinary exploration of big, unanswered questions about major societal challenges. Bass Connections 

 

Policy Engagement Grants

Policy Bridge is offering up to $4,000 for policy engagement activities that serve to catalyze, expand, or enhance efforts to connect the worlds of research and public policy. Submissions for Policy Engagement Grants are reviewed on a rolling basis with a priority deadline of November 15.

 

 

CivicRise Seeks Paid Marketing Intern

Please apply by Oct 5

 

CivicRise is an early-stage technology startup (founded by Tim Scales, Fuqua '17) that seeks to mobilize effective, sustained, and measurable civic engagement. The CivicRise action app allows users to subscribe to organizations such as Planned Parenthood or Democracy NC and receive targeted calls-to-action that they can complete through the app.

 

The Partnerships Internship is a marketing role focused on seeking and developing relationships with issue-advocacy organizations who would use the app to mobilize their supporters. The position responsibilities include researching prospects, creating outreach materials, assisting with pitches and demos, and other marketing/bizdev activities that we come up with together.

 

A monthly stipend is available for qualified candidates. Learn more and apply atwww.civicrise.io/internships/.

 

 

The 2018 Echoing Green Fellowship Application is Now Open!

Echoing Green is accepting applications for our next class of Fellows until October 24, 2017 at 2:00 pm ET

 

General Apply: Calling all innovators & social change leaders-

Black Male Achievement Fellowship: Are you innovating to improve black men & boys' lives in the US? 

For the Climate Fellowship: Do you have an innovative solution to tackle #climatechange?

 

http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellowship/apply

 







 

 

Duke Startup Challenge Applicant Seeks Curious, Collaborative Teammates

 

My product is a web application that decodes English spelling-speech for international students to build oral English fluency. Our goal is to help speakers to build musicality in their speech. To do this, we will find patterns in the pronunciation of English words and classify them. Then, we will creatively and elegantly visualize our findings. This pronunciation application is just a start. After that, we can move on to finding hidden rules in different languages and visualize them as well. It is about small changes that can make a big difference, for many people. 

 

I want to team up with people with web app backend and frontend coding skills (Back: Python/Java preferably, but don’t have to be.  Front: web framework(e.g. Django, Nodejs, etc.); css+html+ JavaScript.)  and also who can do visual design (Photoshop/ Sketch/ web app visual design tool(s) etc.).

 

What you can get from being a team member:

-$50,000 prize if we win

-Hone your deductive and inductive thinking skills

-Experience (the project is highly do-able, so you can go through the whole process of web app developing)

-Participate in entrepreneurship 

-Friends and a lot of fun

 

You don't have to decide to team up with me: being interested in and want to have a conversation would be great!

Coco's email: kx19@duke.edu; cell: 919 519 7188.

 

 

Free Alternative Job Search Platform for Students- RIPPLE

Ripple is a startup reimagining the broken recruiting model by using AI to connect you with amazing companies and startups- Signup here

 

Hello! My name is Brian, a Duke senior who is working with a tech startup called Ripple, an easy and effective career-matching service launched at Yale. Are you tired of career fairs? Do you wish you could seamlessly reach more companies? Well, Ripple is the solution to all your woes. We fix the broken recruiting model by making it so much easier to get jobs and summer internships through AI and Machine Learning. We are working with really cool companies across a range of industries from Fortune500 companies like Twitter, Blackrock, non-profits like Teach for America, to start-ups like Roivant Sciences.

 

For 5 minutes of your time, your resume will get in front of recruiters in highly targeted and curated batches instead of piles of thousands of resumes like with a job posting. All you need to do is apply here, and our website will guide you through our easy sign-up process. Come join the current 15,000 Ripplers on the platform and get matched to your dream internship/job today! 

 

Questions? Contact: bperrycarrera@gmail.com

 

 

Social Innovation Insights with Pamela Hawley

Be a part of the conversation as social entrepreneur, Pamela Hawley blogs about her social innovation insights related to the topics of personal growth, global affairs, management, innovations in the marketplace, and social entrepreneurship. You can also submit your own specific questions through the “Dear Pamela” section of the blog!

 

A new article was just posted on “An Impactful Marketing Technique That Can Benefit Your Nonprofit”

https://entrepreneurship.duke.edu/social-entrepreneurship/social-innovation-insights-with-pamela-hawley/

 

Seeking Volunteers for Research Study: Drones for Disaster Response

Duke's Humans and Autonomy Lab is looking for volunteers to participate in a research study. In this study, you will fly a drone using a tablet in a simulated disaster response environment. Participants will be paid $20/hour via an Amazon gift card, and the experiment could last between 1.5-2.5 hours depending on experimental group. All participants will be eligible for a $100 Amazon e-gift card awarded to the top performer. For such purpose, an email address will need to be provided but will not be associated with any other experiment data other than the performance score. Participants must be over 18, with 20/20 or corrected to normal vision (glasses or contacts are OK) no history of neurological disorders, seizure disorders or head injury. Scheduling is flexible. This study has been approved by Duke’s non-medical IRB.

 

The experiment location is North Building 130, 304 Research Dr., Durham, NC 27708. 

To request an appointment or for further information, please contact Minwoo Kim at minwoo.kim@duke.edu.

 

 

RESOURCES

 

The Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) offers a Connection Bar to advise students and faculty in planning and conducting their research.

The Office of Global Affairs has created a global partnerships database as well as resources and advice for establishing new partnerships.

 

The 2017 Duke I&E Impact Report is now live on our site at www.entrepreneurship.duke.edu/impact-report.

  

Below you will find info on: OPPORTUNITIES: Civic Rise seeks intern, Applications for Duke Net Impact Social Innovators, Invention Prize, Volunteer with America Reads/America Counts EVENTS: General Motors Info Session, National Academy of Sciences Special Lecture, Africa in Conservation, Careers in Global Health, Health Humanities & Social Justice

 

OPPORTUNITIES

 

Social impact startup CivicRise seeks Partnerships intern

CivicRise is an early-stage technology startup (founded by Tim Scales, Fuqua '17) that seeks to mobilize effective, sustained, and measurable civic engagement. The CivicRise action app allows users to subscribe to organizations such as the ACLU or Planned Parenthood and receive targeted action alerts that they can complete through the app. The Partnerships internship is focused on seeking and developing relationships with issue-advocacy organizations who would use the app to mobilize their supporters. This would include researching prospects, creating outreach materials, assisting with pitches and demos, and other marketing/bizdev activities that we come up with together. We are looking for an enthusiastic, entrepreneurial person who is excited about the unpredictability of a startup and eager to jump in and make a difference. A passion for social entrepreneurship and/or civic engagement is a huge plus. Impeccable communication skills, professionalism, and follow-through are a must. A willingness to do the unglamorous work as well as the fun stuff is required, because that's what we're all doing here. If this looks like a good fit, email Tim at tim@civicrise.io with a resume and a quick note saying one thing you could bring to this role plus one thing you'd hope to gain from this experience.

 

Applications open: Duke Undergrad Net Impact Social Innovators Program

Please apply before Sunday, September 10 at 11:59pm.

Designed for students who want hands-on consulting experience working on business and tech strategy-related problems with local nonprofits or social enterprises. It will last from September 2017-April 2018. This is a great opportunity for students who are passionate about entrepreneurship and are enthusiastic about tackling social problems. Partners for this year include Durham Scrap Exchange, Trinket, Alliance of AIDS Services Carolina, and the Helius Foundation. The link to the application can be found here: Social Innovators Application. Email netimpactdukeundergrad@gmail.com with further questions.

 

Invention prize: Lemelson-MIT Student Prize applications open

The Lemelson-MIT Program is searching nationwide for the most inventive college students to compete for the 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Applications are due by September 29, 2017. If you’re interested in applying or referring a student, please find further details on the application process and past winners here.

 

The invention competition is open to teams of undergraduate students and individual graduate students nationwide across four categories:

• “Cure it!” for students with tech-based inventions that can improve healthcare

• “Drive it!” for students with tech-based inventions that can improve transportation

• “Eat it!” for students with tech-based inventions that can improve food and agriculture

• “Use it!” for students with tech-based inventions that can improve consumer devices

Winners receive:

• $15,000 to each winning graduate student

• $10,000 to each winning undergraduate team

• National media campaign

• Exposure to investment and business communities

• Trip to MIT for an award celebration in June 2018

 

Volunteer with America Reads/America Counts

Priority Application for the Fall is September 8^th @5pm

The America Reads/America Counts (ARAC) program is designed to enhance primary-level reading and math skills of children in Durham, while providing Duke University students the opportunity to give back to their community, gain work experience, and earn money. ARAC tutors are funded through Federal Work study.
Learn more here and apply here!

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

General Motors Info Session

Monday, September 11 | 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm 

West Union Multipurpose room 068

Brought to you by: Career Center

 

National Academy of Sciences Special Lecture: In Search of Human Uniqueness

Thursday, September 7, 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center

About the speaker: Duke cognitive scientist Michael Tomasello has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. National academy membership is regarded as the highest recognition for a scientist. He earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at the University of Georgina in 1980. He returned to teach at Duke in 2016 as the James F. Bonk Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and also has appointments in the Departments of Evolutionary Anthropology and Philosophy.

Click here to register for this event. 

 

Africa in Conversation: Closing the Gap between Screening and Treatment using Pocket Colposcopy - Experience from Tanzania, United States and Peru

Tuesday, September 12

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Rubenstein Library Carpenter Conference, Room 249

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As part of the Duke Africa Initiative's 'Africa in Conversation Series', Duke faculty members Nimmi Ramanujam, PhD and Marlee Krieger, MS will discuss cancer screenings in Tanzania, the U.S. and Peru. 'Africa In Conversation' is a new speaker series featuring the work of diverse faculty from a number of different disciplines at Duke University. 'Africa In Conversation' is an opportunity to learn about current research and work being conducted by faculty members, and provides a chance to get to know our colleagues working across the African continent.

 

Careers in Global Health: Thinking Outside of the Box Webinar

Thursday, September 14

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Webinar: Join Online

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Global Health University offers free webinars with leading experts in global health and social entrepreneurship.

Learn from leading experts about unique careers in global health. The webinar will include guidance and advice from five panelists, as well as ample opportunity to ask the speakers questions.  Gain insight about paths to a career in global health, how to start a fulfilling career, and key tools for the hiring process, etc.

 

Health Humanities & Social Justice: Breath, Body, Voice

September 14 - 16

Various Locations (visit event website for more details)

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Register now for the culminating event of the 2014-2017 Mellon Grant at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Humanities Futures! The capstone conference, titled Health Humanities & Social Justice: Breath, Body, Voice, will focus on the health humanities. We define health on a continuum from the health sciences to states of health, and focus on social justice to bridge the lived experiences of health and wellness in both our academic and non-academic communities. Furthermore, in 2017, we ask: how are the humanities transforming health, and how is health transforming the humanities? And what do these mutual influences suggest concerning the health of the humanities? This conference will address the emergent field of health humanities through keynotes, panels, interactive workshops, and performances across a spectrum of arts - literary, theatrical, documentary, musical.