Nadia Yaqub (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Stephen Sheehi (Duke)-$4,000
Connecting through Language: Enhancing Coordination between the Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill Arabic Programs
The programs relating to Islam and the Middle East at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill have a long history of inter-campus cooperation. However, one problem the departments face is the lack of opportunities for students to use their emerging Arabic language skills outside of the classroom. The grant will enhance the Arabic programs at both universities by sponsoring joint activities between the two. The activities will include a pen pal project, a student video festival, and an "Iftar" dinner (breaking the fast during Ramadan).
Yaakov Ariel (UNC-Chapel Hill) Joseph Shatzmiller (Duke)-$3,300
Judaic Studies Seminar
This initiative will help fund a three-year Judaic Studies Seminar to begin in the spring of 2002. The seminar will begin in January 2002 and the seminars will be monthly, alternately at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. The immediate goal is to provide existing faculty and graduate students with a professional network to support their work and encourage them to explore innovative and interdisciplinary approaches, as well as to bring them into contact with nationally renown scholars and their current projects.
Rajeev Dassani (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Jason Middleton (Duke)-$3,000
Collaborative Films between Duke and UNC Students
This alliance will foster a relationship between the Carolina Production Guild ( the filmmaking student group at UNC-Chapel Hill) and Freewater Productions (the filmmaking student group at Duke University) by funding a series of films that are collaborations between students at Duke and at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Adina Dubin (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Brian Fried (Duke)-$2,500
Robertson Gesher (Bridge) Initiative
This initiative will provide new programs bringing together and encouraging interaction among Jewish students, as well as the student body at-large, at both Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. The initiative will strengthen the relationship between the communities at the two universities in three ways: 1) increased student programmatic collaboration, 2) funding to ensure programmatic excellence, 3) joint leadership development.
Stephen Smith (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Jennifer Stone (Duke)-$2,500
Collaboration between the Nonprofit Club at Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC and the New Impact Club at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
Collaboration between both clubs will be facilitated through three primary events. These events include: partnering to host speakers, planning and attending a group social activity, and working together to conduct a feasibility study around the establishment of a joint consulting practice for nonprofit organizations in the Triangle Area.
Carol Pardun (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Ellen Gartrell (Duke)-$2,000
Advertising's Past, Present and Future: Collaborative Use and Development of Unique Library Resources
This initiative will include a symposium on trends in advertising and marketing, in conjunction with the graduate seminar "Social and Economic Effects in Advertising" taught by Professor Pardun at UNC-Chapel Hill. Students in the course will enhance their study of advertising in society and prepare for participation in the symposium by means of a research project using Hartman Center resources at Duke. The several facets of the project will serve as a model of inter-institutional collaboration for the use and development of research resources at the two universities.
Joseph Barnes (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Brad Morris (Duke)-$1,675
The Undergraduate Philosophy Symposium
This symposium exists to provide a forum for undergraduates with philosophical interests to present original work. It is co-sponsored by the Carolina Undergraduate Philosophy Club, and the Duke Undergraduate Philosophy Society, which meet jointly every Thursday at UNC. With the aid of this grant, this spring 2002 Symposium will revive a tradition started by the Carolina Undergraduate Philosophy Club several years ago, which has been neglected for several years.
John Rutledge (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Christof Galli (Duke)-$1,500
Documenting Islam and the Middle East
The libraries at both universities have worked cooperatively to establish a core collection in these areas, in response to the four new faculty members at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill (two at Duke and two at UNC-Chapel Hill), as well as the growing research and teaching interests in this area. With the help of this grant, the libraries will respond to a dramatically intensified need for information in all subject areas and in both western and regional languages by filling lacunae in our respective Middle East Collections.
Carolyn Pumphrey (Triangle Institue for Security Studies) -$1,500
Collaboration between Duke and UNC Undergraduates Who are Engaged in the Study of Peace and War
This initiative will bring about closer collaboration among undergraduates at Duke and UNC who are engaged in the study of peace and war, or international security. The grant will subsidize an undergraduate honors-thesis dinner seminar, and provide stipends for two TISS (Triangle Institute for Security Studies) aides.
Kate Harris (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Jason Keith (Duke)-$1,250
SpaceTalk
SpaceTalk will be a joint Carolina/Duke undergraduate seminar series on the subject of space exploration. Through SpaceTalk, Harris and Keith hope to foster a cross-campus community of students and faculty with a passionate interest in the exploration of space, to encourage student interest in space sciences, and to advocate the human exploration of Mars and space.
Jeffery Becker (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Megan Ottone (Duke)-$1,000
Fifth Annual UNC-Duke Graduate Colloquium in Classics
This year marks the fifth annual joint graduate student colloquium in the Department of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke. This colloquium will function in many ways to promote scholasticism and collegiality between our two departments, provides valuable experience for graduate students, and promote the excellence of both departments.
Jessica Rutter (Duke)-$500
Farmworker Awareness Week
Although eighty-five percent of the fruits and vegetables we consume are hand-harvested, we know very little about the lives and working conditions of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. With the support of the Robertson Scholars Collaboration Fund, a group of concerned activists from UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke will use collective resources, contacts, dedication, and ideas to bring Duke and Carolina together to support migrant and season farmworkers in the Carolinas by coordinating various activities during Farmworker Awareness Week, March 18-24.
