We are both pleased and fortunate to welcome Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández, the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History at UCLA, to Duke as the Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University for the 2025-2026 academic year. One of the nation's leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, Professor Hernández will discuss topics stemming from her forthcoming book, Still Racist: U.S. Immigration Control since 1790, which will be published by W. W. Norton in 2026.

Join us to learn about the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of touch in Gandhi's care for the leprous body - and what this reveals about untouchability, stigma, and caregiving - through research by Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University), with a response from Harris Solomon (Duke University).

️ Friday, April 3, 2026
⏰12:00-1:30PM (EDT)
Hybrid (Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106 / Zoom)
️ Light lunch offered
Registration free but required

Presenter

Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)

The Office of Physician-Scientist Development (OPSD) administers the Duke Strong Start Program, which is designed to nurture the careers of junior physician-scientists at Duke pursuing discovery science involving traditional wet-lab/benchwork and/or advanced computational approaches.

To mark the Centennial of the Duke University Press, the DUP and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) are jointly hosting two events, one in Spring 2026 and the other in Fall 2026. The Spring event, Publishing Fundamentals, will feature two panels on everything you need to know about publishing your humanities and social science book: from the process of turning a dissertation into a book to strategies for connecting with the best press for your book. Reception to follow.

Panel 1: How Dissertations Become Book Manuscripts

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The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South is excited to invite you to a Listening Lunch concert on the Biddle Music Building back patio at 12:30pm on Wednesday, April 8th!

Nephrology Grand Rounds are the primary teaching conference of the Division of
Nephrology. Both clinical and basic science topics pertinent to nephrology are
presented at this conference. Each fellow, guided by a faculty-mentor, will
present once a year. Speakers from outside the Division of Nephrology and Duke
University will also be incorporated into the conference schedule.

The panel will be Rebecca Kujawa (CEO, Zerra Partners (frm. CEO, NextEra)), Catherine Hunt Ryan (President of Manufacturing & Technology, Bechtel), Sharon Marcil (Managing Director & NAMR Chair, BCG) to discuss the building, investing in, and scaling of the physical and operational foundations of AI infrastructure. The panel (5:30-6:30 PM) will be moderated by David Hoffman and will include a short networking reception following.

This symposium will explore how New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) and Traditional Approaches and Methodologies (TAMs) can be integrated to advance environmental health and toxicology research. Speakers will highlight emerging experimental platforms-including organoids, alternative model organisms, high-throughput screening systems, and computational tools-alongside established animal and laboratory models that have historically driven toxicology research.