Branden Fitelson is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University. He is known for his expertise on formal epistemology and philosophy of science.
The Sperling Center for Jewish Studies invites students, faculty, and community members to attend the 2026 Jewish Studies Annual Research Symposium on Sunday, November 1, 2026. This annual event showcases innovative research by Duke undergraduate and graduate students, as well as affiliated fellows, whose work engages Jewish history, culture, religion, literature, politics, and society across diverse geographical and historical contexts.
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NOTE: Registration closes 24 hours before event start. Please register ahead of the event. Registrants will receive Zoom information and related materials by email one week and within 24 hours before the event.
Join filmmakers, faculty, and librarians in a conversation reflecting on The Memory Project, a long-standing collaborative initiative that demonstrates the powerful intersection of academic research, creative production, teaching and learning, and library stewardship.
Join Valena Beety, Robert H. McKinney Professor of Law at Indiana University Bloomington, for a discussion of her new book, Pink Crime.
An innocence litigator and former federal prosecutor, Professor Beety examines how prosecutorial overreach, flawed forensic science, and cultural panic intersect in the criminalization of motherhood, pregnancy, and queer identity. She also explores how recent changes in law and policy have expanded the reach of the criminal legal system.
Lunch will be provided.
Join Corinna Barrett Lain, George E. Allen Chair in Law at the University of Richmond School of Law, for a discussion of her new book, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection.
Professor Lain examines the administration of the death penalty in the United States, exploring secrecy, legal violations, lethal injection practices, and the human consequences of execution. Professor Brandon Garrett will moderate a Q&A following the discussion.
Lunch will be provided.
Despite decades of progress in neuroimaging and systems neuroscience, we still lack a wiring diagram of the human brain. This gap reflects fundamental constraints of species and scale: invasive tract-tracing methods cannot be applied in humans, while whole-brain reconstruction in large nonhuman primates remains technically and computationally challenging. As a result, diffusion MRI-based tractography, our primary tool for mapping human white matter, remains only loosely anchored to ground-truth axonal anatomy.
Health state is constantly being defined by dynamic feedback control between self, non-self, external chemical stress, and psychoneurological stress both early in life through immune conditioning and during lifespan through innate and adaptive immune responses. The microbiome is both internally controlled and controlled by the immune system. Internal control of microbiota in the microbiome has been mathematically modeled using generalized Lotka-Volterra models of competition extensively.
Dr. Gassman's talk is going to explore the use of a novel DNA damage assessment method to understand DNA damage and repair defects caused by exogenous agents and how persistent DNA damage changes cells and their microenvironment, particularly in the context of cancer.