Join us virtually for this week-long celebration of research including an exciting array of faculty lectures and panel discussions; graduate student, trainee, and postdoctoral fellow flash talks; and special guest speakers presenting the Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, Distinguished Lecture and Daubechies Lecture 2022.
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January 31 – February 4
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has not only changed national and international policy approaches to overcoming public health emergencies, but also the landscape of social policy research and engagement efforts at academic institutions. This has included a wide array of Duke faculty, researchers, and students who have been directly involved in both policy development and implementation at the local, national, and international levels, as well as new research opportunities that have arisen because of the virus. In this fireside chat and panel discussion, Duke faculty will share their research and engagement experiences during COVID-19 and their outlook for social policy research and priorities in a post-COVID-19 era.
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
The Research Week Climate Panels will highlight the convergence of disciplines necessary to mitigate the effects of and adapt to climate change as we consider consequences across our global community. Researchers working in Energy Transformation, Climate Resilience, Data and Climate, and Climate Justice will highlight ongoing climate change challenges, and provide insight into our path forward towards socially just climate solutions.
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
The Research Week Climate Panels will highlight the convergence of disciplines necessary to mitigate the effects of and adapt to climate change as we consider consequences across our global community. Researchers working in Energy Transformation, Climate Resilience, Data and Climate, and Climate Justice will highlight ongoing climate change challenges, and provide insight into our path forward towards socially just climate solutions.
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
As society continues to charge through a computational revolution, it is imperative that a diverse range of disciplines and groups shape and influence the future of computing and its applications. To date, however, much of computing design, development, and implementation has been dominated by technocentric fields which lack diversity with respect to identity. The effects of this lack of diversity in thought and approach have far-reaching social and cultural implications that are evident in academic/workplace cultures and biased/harmful technologies that negatively impact society at large and, most significantly, the most vulnerable. Changing this trajectory cannot rely on marginalized groups. Instead, institutions (which include people, policies, and practices) must be transformed so that a broad spectrum of identities not only participate in the development of technology, but also drive its future. In this talk, the team will discuss the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in computing, challenges associated with centering interventions on marginalized groups, and how they are working through the Alliance for identity-Inclusive Computing Education towards a more inclusive future of computing.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
This panel highlights how humanities questions not only help clarify but are central to analyzing major issues in human society. Taking the term “grand challenges” from the sciences, we argue that humanities are equally important to explaining fundamental human problems (and solutions). Looking at diverse sources such as narratives and oral testimonies, cultural objects, archival sources, and evidence from the natural world, the scholars will present how they use these sources to examine critically human societies past and present.