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Center for European Studies
The Duke Center for European Studies was established in 1989. In 1994 the U.S. Department of Education
awarded the consortium with a Title VI grant and designated it as a National Resource Center. This grant was
renewed for another three years in 1997. In the summer of 1998, the European Union awarded the Center a three-year
grant, and it became one of the ten official European Union Centers in the United States. The Duke Center for
European Studies brings together a depth and quality of faculty drawn from highly regarded departments in the
humanities, social sciences, law, business and public policy.
The Center promotes interdisciplinary programs, courses, and research that directly address questions concerning
Europe and the European Union. The Center's goal is to ensure that faculty, students, and the larger community have
access to the finest scholarship and the most current resources on Europe. The Center offers a Graduate Certificate in
Interdisciplinary European Studies to those students meeting the requirements listed on the Center Web site (see
below). The Center hosts conferences, workshops, and visiting scholars, supports a graduate student colloquium and
faculty/student working groups on focused research lines. The Center also supports Duke faculty and graduate
students with academic year research grants and travel awards.
For further information, please contact the Center for European Studies, Room 299, John Hope Franklin Center,
2204 Erwin Road, Box 90406, Durham, NC 27708; telephone 919.684.6449; or check the center Web site at: http://
www.jhfc.duke.edu/ces.
John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies
The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies is a unique consortium of
programs committed to revitalizing notions of how knowledge is gained and exchanged. Participants from a broad
range of disciplines converge to explore intellectual issues, including some of the most pressing social and political
themes of our time: race and race relations, the legacy of the African-American experience, equality and opportunity
among diverse populations, and the implications of accerlerated globalization. At its core, the Center claims an
intrepid and daring mission: to bring together humanists and those involved in the social sciences in a setting that
inspires vigorous scholarship and imaginative alliances. In this way, historians, artits, literary scholars, and
philosophers contribute to a rich understanging of moral and ethical issues. For more information, visit the center’s
Web site at: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/.
Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy
The Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy is a multi- and interdisciplinary network of centers, research
programs, and educational activities that together constitute an integrated, campus-wide approach to advancing the
Genome Revolution. The IGSP is distinguished by its breadth and its purposeful focus on health and social policy.
We bring together scientists, engineers, physicians, lawyers, policymakers, business leaders, economists, ethicists,
humanists, and students to explore the genome and embrace its potential for improving human health and exploring
the world and our place in it.
IGSP investigators, members, and students address far-reaching issues such as genomics and personalized
medicine, genetic discrimination, the nature of humanity, comparative genome evolution, intellectual property, the
meaning of genome variation, large-scale data storage and analysis, and national health and science policy.
The IGSP is comprised of faculty and students from across Duke University and is organized in a network of Centers
and related programs that together form an integrated approach to advancing the Genome Revolution and addressing
its implications for health and society. Each center provides core competencies and areas of scholarship that comprise
the comprehensive scope of the IGSP's mission.
• Center for Applied Genomics and Technology
• Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy
• Center for Genomic Medicine
• Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Center for Systems Biology
• Center for Human Genome Variation
• Center for Evolutionary Genomics
While the IGSP is the major focal point on campus for the study of genome sciences and policy, it collaborates with
other multidisciplinary research units at Duke doing related work in genomics.
Duke Center for International Development
The Duke Center for International Development (DCID) is located in Duke's Terry Sanford Institute of Public
Policy. The center's core faculty are drawn from a variety of academic disciplines including economics, political
science, environmental studies, public policy, law, business, and peace and conflict resolution. The faculty's teaching,
research, and consulting experience are international in scope, encompassing a broad range of development policy
issues.
The center consists of four distinct components: 1). The Program in International Development Policy (PIDP),
which provides graduate-level education in policy and economic analysis and problems related to sustainable
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