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esearch scientist Rebecca Buckley, basketball coach Johnny Dawkinsand police officer Adam Berg spend their work days in different ways, but they share something in common – they’re all Dukegraduates and current employees. And they’re not alone.Nearly 2,000 people who received theirundergraduate degrees at Duke work at Duke. Likemany other Duke grads, they share a love for Dukeand connection with the university that extendsbeyond cap and gown.“There’s always that overriding sense of doing something worthwhile when you work at Duke, whether in academics, science or medicine,” saidSterly Wilder, a 1983 Duke graduate and director of Alumni Affairs. “You think, ‘Oh, I’ll stay for a yearor two,’ and then all of a sudden, boom! You’rehere, and you have a life; your friends are here.” Along with loyalty to their alma mater, many graduates stay or return because of Duke’sintellectual atmosphere, commitment to excellenceand family-friendly benefits.Inside Working@Duke, you’ll read about sevenalumni employees who are dedicated to Duke. There’s Murray Brandt, Class of 1944. He’s a golf shop assistant and avid Blue Devils fan. There’sDr. Brenda Armstrong, a physician whose ongoing commitment to diversity started when she was astudent activist in the 1960s. And there’s musicprofessor Anthony Kelley, who traveled the globe before being drawn back to Duke. Although their reasons for staying are eclectic, alumni who work at Duke share a similar past. They’ve watched Duke grow – culturally and physically.From the university’s desegregation in 1961-63 to the merger of the Woman’s College with Trinity College for Men in 1972, the campusculture has blossomed with the increase of female, minority andinternational students, staff and faculty. Many grads played hands-onroles in helping Duke mature into a national research university, medicalleader and athletic powerhouse.Grads have witnessed a stark change in the physicalappearance of the campus, too. About 50 buildingsdotted the 5,200-acre campus in 1950; today’s campusincludes 220 buildings and 8,610 acres.“I enjoyed being on this campus so much that Ididn’t want to leave,” said Lauren Braun, who joinedDuke’s Focus Program as an administrative assistantafter graduating from Duke in May 2007. “Working here keeps my intellectual curiosity alive. There are somany opportunities to meet amazing people and learnfrom them.” Alma Jones, director of financial and payrollservices for Student Affairs and a member of theClass of 1969, was lured back to campus 25 yearsafter graduating.“I never really thought I would come back here,but I’m glad I did,” she said. “Duke has good benefits,especially the tuition reimbursement for children.”Duke’s benefits also attracted Cassandra Jones,information technology analyst at Duke ClinicalResearch Institute. She graduated in 1990.“I worked in the corporate world for nine years, but Idecided to come to Duke after I had children because Duke offers a lot forfamilies, and the pace is more relaxed and not driven by the bottom line,”she said. “A lot of alumni seem to return for the same reasons. Not only isDuke a fantastic place to go to school, but it’s also a great place to work.”
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The Wilson RecreationCenter has a new32-foot tall climbingwall that will put theburn back in yourworkouts this year.
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NEARLY 2,000 DUKE ALUMNI WORK AT DUKE UNIVERSITY AND HEALTH SYSTEM
Members of Duke’s class of 1970, above, included a dozen students who later became Duke faculty and staff members.
You think,‘Oh, I’ll stayfor a year or two,’ and thenall of a sudden,boom! You’rehere, and youhave a life;your friendsare here.”
— Sterly Wilder1983 Duke graduateand director of Alumni Affairs
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FEBRUARY 5
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Helen Thomas,former White House bureau chief,discusses her life, breaking throughbarriers for women reporters whilecovering every presidency since JohnF. Kennedy, 7 p.m., Reynolds Theater.
FEBRUARY 7
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“Tea withTrailblazers;” African- Americantrailblazers Dr. Brenda Armstrong,Dr. Joanne Peebles Wilson and Dr.Thelma Brown, share their storiesof “trailblazing experiences” at Duke,2 p.m., Duke Medical Center Library.
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Froshlife, the6th annual digital movie festival;first-year Duke students producestories about their first year at Duke,8 p.m., Richard White Lecture Hall.
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ichard Hain has been a rock climber since the early 1970s. With a dearth of rocks to climbin the Triangle, he trains on indoor walls. While there are several indoor facilities inand around Durham, he’s had the optionsince mid-September of using a new oneon Duke’s campus.Nestled in a corner of WilsonRecreation Center stands a climbing wall with nearly 30 different routes, ranging from beginner to expert, to the top of the three-story structure.“I use the indoor wall for training,”said Hain, a Duke math professor who visits the climbing wall once or twice a week. “Climbing on anything is fun.” The 32-foot tall climbing wallopened in September and is available toanyone at Duke who has a Wilsonmembership. All climbers must first takea belay certification course before using the wall. The $25 fee includes the belay certification, access to the wall and allother climbing necessities. The one-hourclass is currently offered two days a week. All other climbing necessities are availableat the wall, free of charge.“The classes have been filled since virtually themoment I put out the sign-up sheets,” said Jan Hackett, who oversees the wall.So far, Hackett said the wall has been immensely popular among students. In an effort to introduce morefaculty and staff, Hackett said it could be used by variousuniversity departments for team-building exercises.“It’s pretty personal to be standing on the other endand holding somebody up on the wall,” Hackett said. “If you let them fall, they’re going to be not real happy.” The wall can accommodate as many as 22 people ata time. Because of the belay technique necessary to safely climb, one person scales the wall, while one person guidesthem with the rope from the ground and acts as theirsafety net.“One of the things we talk about is getting faculty,staff and students doing something together,” said Lee Tucker, director of Wilson Recreation Center. “It takes twopeople to climb. It doesn’t matter who’s holding the ropeand who’s climbing. It’s a bonding thing.” While students are mostly using the wall now, Hain,the math professor, would like to see it turn into agathering place for the entire Duke community.“My hope is that in the near future, it’s a place wherethere are undergraduates, graduate students, faculty andstaff who climb, and they all interact,” Hain said. “That’sthe goal.”
— By Tim CandonWorking@Duke Correspondent
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Tax returns prepared free of charge
Volunteers from Duke Law School willprepare tax returns for Duke employees free ofcharge. To be eligible for the Volunteer IncomeTax Service, known as VITA, employees mustearn less than $30,000 annually.Among the locations, Duke Law students,faculty and staff will be at the Duke UniversityFederal Credit Union, 2200 West Main St.Appointments can be scheduled from 11 a.m. to4:30 p.m. on Feb. 8, 15, 22 and 29, and on April 4. To make anappointment at the credit union, clients must visit the Erwin SquarePlaza branch.For additional information and other Durham locations, visit
www.law.duke.edu/student/act/vita/index
or call (919) 613-8526.
Nominations underway for Presidential Award
Nominations for the 2007 Presidential Award are beingaccepted through Feb. 22. The award recognizes a faculty or staffmember who has made distinctive contributions to Duke Universityand Health System in the past year. The Presidential Award and upto five Meritorious Service Awards will be selected from each ofthe job categories. The Presidential Award recipient receives aPresidential Medallion and $1,000. Meritorious Service Awardwinners receive an award box containing an etched frame withcertificate and an engraved pen as well as $100. All winners arerecognized by President Richard H. Brodhead during a luncheon.Call (919) 684-9040 or visit
www.hr.duke.edu/recognition/presidential.html
for nomination forms.
Coming Soon: New self-service Web site
Later this month, all faculty and staff will have direct onlineaccess to view and update personal information at Duke through
Duke@Work
, a new self-service Web site. The site will offer flexibilityand convenience to view pay statements online, sign up to discontinuepaper pay statements, update home and work addresses, set up orchange bank accounts for direct deposit, and review benefit selectionsand retirement plan balances. Eventually, the Web site will be the one-stop-shop location to allow faculty and staff to enroll in benefits, renewparking permits, and access retirement accounts and tools. MichelleNunalee, a postdoctoral associate in Biomedical Engineering, won aniPod in the contest to name the site from more than 1,200 entries lastfall. Beginning Feb. 18, the secure site –
www.work.duke.edu
– will beaccessible to all faculty and staff using NetID and password
Discount tickets available for Harlem Globetrotters
The The Harlem Globetrotters – a famous basketball team knownfor complicated and entertaining moves – will be at the RBC Center aspart of their Magic as Ever 2008 World Tour. Duke faculty and staffcan save $7 per ticket to the 2 p.m. March 2 show. Groups are invitedto enter the doors early to attend a pre-game session of GlobetrotterUniversity at 12:30 p.m. Seating is limited; tickets must be ordered byFeb. 15. Download the ticket form at
http://hrweb-dev.oit.duke.edu/discounts/printables/globetrotters2008.pdf
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Duke’s annual economic impact on Durham $3.4 billion
Duke University has a $3.4 billion annual economic impact on thecity and county of Durham, according to a study of Duke’s influence onthe local economy.The latest figures, which cover fiscal year 2006-07, are up from$3.2 billion determined by a study two years ago, and are 62 percenthigher than the economic impact of $1.9 billion when the first suchstudy was conducted 10 years ago.The largest portion of Duke’s economic impact is employment-related. As thecounty’s topemployer, theuniversityemployed19,755 Durhamresidents, withsalaries andbenefits totaling$931 million.About half ofDuke employeesare Durhamresidents.Duke’s Office of Public Affairs, with help from such localorganizations as the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce and theDurham Convention and Visitors Bureau, performed the analysis,which takes place every two years.Read the economic impact report at
www.community.duke.edu
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The 32-foot tall climbing wall in WilsonRec Center opened in September andis available to anyone at Duke who hasa Wilson membership.
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he timing couldn’t have been better for BonnieMcManus, who was searching for funding to makea course on Latino identity in local and globalcommunities a reality.“We knew we had a good course and good faculty support; we just needed financial support as well,” saidMcManus, senior program coordinator for Duke’s SpanishService-Learning, a unit within the Spanish LanguageProgram in the Department of Romance Studies.McManus found the funding through Duke’s KenanInstitute for Ethics Campus Grant Program. With the $250grant, her department was able to offer Latino/a Voices inDuke, Durham, and Beyond, one of nine projects awardeda Spring 2007 Campus Grant from the Institute.“This course gives students a specific opportunity to engage in ethical discussions about immigration andidentity, both in the classroom and through service-learning experiences beyond the classroom,” McManus said. The Kenan Institute for Ethics Campus Grantsprogram offers up to $500 to Duke students, faculty andstaff to support initiatives that promote ethical reflection,deliberation and dialogue at Duke. Since the program’sinception in 1999, the Institute has awarded more than$42,000 for projects at Duke. Applications for grants are considered twice a year;the next deadline is Feb. 15.Students in Latino/a Voices in Duke, Durham,and Beyond, worked closely with El Centro Hispano,a downtown Durham-based organization dedicated tostrengthening the Latino community and improving thequality of life of itsresidents. Studentsconducted interviews,attended meetings andcreated a publicationcelebrating El CentroHispano’s 15 years of community service.El Centro will use thepublication to garnersupport for currentand future programs. Ada Gregory, oneof the Institute’sassistant directors, saidthe course was anatural fit for a grant.“The goal of the Campus Grants program is toallow members of the Duke community to embrace andpromote ethics on campus, and this project did that in aninteresting and relevant way,” she said. The grants provide support for speakers, workshops,meetings, curriculum development, publications,organizational collaborations, and other activities. TheKenan Institute for Ethics welcomes diverse perspectivesand submissions from organizations and individuals in allareas of the University and Health System.
— By Aimee Rodriguez Communications & Advancement Specialist Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics
Grants offered for ethical reflection,deliberation and dialogue at Duke
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n terms of solving the world’s problems, $100 million isn’t all that much. But Duke’s deansof the sacred and secular worlds agree – its power can be leveraged as seed money.“A hundred million dollars can disappear very quickly,” Divinity School Dean Greg Jonestold the audience in December during a Deans’ Dialogue conversation. “But it can do anextraordinary amount to build capacity that gets multiplied several times over.”Duke Chapel Dean Sam Wells began the conversation series in 2006, inviting deans of various Duke divisions for one-on-one discussions, asking, “Is it possible to do any good?”In the 2007-08 series, Wells is asking, “What would you do with $100 million?”“Duke Chapel has a unique role in encouraging discussion about matters of commonconcern and in enabling dialogue to occur around the deeper issues that shape our character,lives and world,” Wells said. The discussions, which are free and open to the public, resume Feb. 19 with Nicholas SchoolDean William L. Chameides. Past conversations with Wells have included Duke’s Fuqua Schoolof Business Dean Blair Sheppard; Kristina Johnson, former dean of Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering; and Sandy Williams, former dean of Duke’s School of Medicine.“Deans are top scholars, but they can also take an idea and pragmatically put it into action,” said Gaston Warner,Duke Chapel’s director of university and community relations.For instance, Sheppard, dean of the business school, said $100 million alone will not eradicate a major problem. Inhis conversation in October, he said the sum “can be enough to start helping people build their own capacity for solving their problems.” Sheppard said that approach oriented him toward teaching.“I realized I could educate 450 MBAs to go out and solve lots of problems,” Sheppard noted.In his conversation in December, Jones, the divinity school dean, said the school prepares leaders of the church.He referred to the saying: “give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed himfor a lifetime.”“We are in the business of teaching people to fish,” Jones said. “With $100 million, I’d change the nature of thefishing industry. I’d develop the capacity of organizations, especially religious ones, to develop leadership in serviceto God.” The dialogues draw students, faculty, staff and community members. Judith Hays, associate professor in Duke’sSchool of Nursing, said the conversations spark provocative discussion at home.“The talks do spill over into our lives,” she said, “if we give ourselves time to consider what our own valuesare and how we are putting them into play.”
— By Nancy E.OatesWorking@Duke Correspondent
What to do with $100 million?
DUKE DEANS ANTE UP IN DIALOGUES
The talks dospill over intoour lives if we giveourselves time toconsider what our ownvalues are and how we areputting them into play.”
— Judith HaysDuke’s School of Nursing
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How To Apply
Visit
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for an application.Submissions areaccepted twice a year– submit by Feb. 15and Oct. 1.
Duke Chapel Dean Sam Wells, left, asksDivinity School Dean Greg Jones whathe would do with $100 million.Bonnie McManus, right, senior programcoordinator for Duke’s Spanish Service-Learning, received funding for a classthrough Duke’s Kenan Institute.
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