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Going Public with Hot-button National Issues
Students in the Leadership, Policy and Change course hosted an open forum about national gun policy legislation two days before the U.S. Senate voted on a controversial package of bills.
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Visible Thinking
Fourteen SOL students presented their community-based research projects at Visible Thinking, Duke University’s annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. More than one hundred Trinity College students from all disciplines showcased results of faculty-mentored research projects, ranging from humanities
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25th Anniversary
When the Hart Leadership Program (HLP) was launched in 1987 by Bruce Payne, its goal was to connect service to the classroom. That summer, Payne started a community service program called Interns in Conscience, where students worked with organizations that served the homeless.
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Bruce Payne
There are two things you need to learn about in order to exercise leadership. The first is who you are – what are the talents and gifts that I have? And the second is what do leadership opportunities look like and particularly, what do opportunities look like for someone like me?
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Leadership Lessons
Ikal Angelei is a Kenyan environmental activist and community organizer with a fresh take on what leadership means. Only 31 years old, she has the seriousness of purpose of someone much older.
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Karmel Wong
From the beginning of my collaboration with my supervisor from International Child Art Foundation, I knew that community based research (CBR) wasn’t going to be easy…
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Evolve
“I’ve always been interested in entrepreneurship,” says senior Lina Feng. “Because of my parents, I’ve had an entrepreneurial mindset ever since I was very young. It’s what attracted me to the ELI program in the first place…”
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Lindsay Bayham
A crumpled sheet of notebook paper hits me in the back with a soft thud. I pause, my hand suspended mid-sentence on the chalkboard. Behind me, the usual chorus of shouts and yells quiets for a few seconds…
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Brian Wright
Most of the patrol team (IPT) was milling around the courtyard. On one side, the most paramilitary looking officer was cleaning and assembling his gun. By the station entrance was a cardboard box filled with grey plastic bottles. Ling, the head ISO staff member, asked me to take a picture of it…
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Crayons 2 Calculators
Bouquets of pencils, stacks of construction paper, bundles of notebooks and folders, all doled out free of charge. This was the sight that greeted Brandy Collins, a special- education teacher at Holt Elementary School, when she walked into Crayon2Calculators last week…
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Karen Chen
“What I love most about live music performance is the energy, the interaction between the audience and the performers – and so that was an instant where it was like ‘Yeah! This is amazing!’”...
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Damon, Sonya and Mark
"So what are you doing after school?" It's a question I'm asked often these days. After all, I’m a senior graduating in t-minus six months. But without fail, every time I hear someone forming the words, I can feel my palms start to sweat...
Story by Naureen Khan
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Naima von Ritter Figueres
“I learned so much, I did so much, I went through so much. It challenged the way I think about what I do, what I prioritize, what I grumble about at Duke...”
Story by Julia Love
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Tony Brown
"It's great to feel you've made a difference in the development of superstars, but they're going to be superstars anyway. The real satisfaction comes from somebody who comes into the course on the margin. You can see them grow up and blossom."
Story by Julia Love
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Seyward Darby
Journalism in Washington, D.C., is not for the faint of heart—the pressure to report even the minutest details first is cutthroat, yet writers are also charged with the responsibility of informing the national discourse.
Story by Julia Love
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WHO House
When Professor Rachel Seidman’s students discussed the state of women on campus, they hit on some big problems: the disproportionately low number of women in Duke Student Government, the culture of effortless perfection, and male students’ control of the campus social scene, to name a few...
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