Dean Bresciani (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Larry Moneta (Duke)-$1,000
Student Affairs: What Is Our Profession About and Where Is It Going?
The mention of "Student Affairs" often draws looks of confusion from colleagues. That ambiguity can cloud even the perspectives of those 'in' the profession, a situation further compounded by increasing specialization within functions typically under the Student Affairs umbrella. This project will bring the Student Affairs staff of Duke and UNC together for an unprecedented "all staff" discussion. The intent is to make this retreat an annual event alternated between campuses. The second intent is to bring in Dr. Margaret Barr, former Vice-President for Student Affairs at Northwestern University, as a keynote speaker.
Beth Holmgren (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Jehanne Gheith (Duke)-$2,000
Mistress, Peasant, Revolutionary: Women on the Nineteenth-Century Russian Estate
We propose a year-long program of events focused on the experiences of and interactions between different groups of women living on the pre-revolutionary Russian estate: 1) a lecture series; 2) brown-bag lunches for informal student presentations; and 3) an "evening" of student readings. The four lectures (by guest lecturers and local UNC and Duke faculty) introduce students to the characteristic "lives and works" of gentry, peasant, and "professionalizing" women (writers, doctors), and female radicals. Our "evening," researched and performed by students from both universities and a variety of disciplines, presents readings about and images of the "women on the estate."
Martin Doyle (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Emily Bernhardt (Duke)-$1,600
Stream Ecosystems of Carolina North and Duke Forest
Stream ecosystems are driven by both physical and biological processes, yet the coupling of these processes is rarely studied. We will initiate a joint research and education program focused on the physical and biological processes in Sandy Creek (Duke Forest) and Bolin Creek (Carolina North). We will develop a collaborative research program to collect background data for long-term studies, and to provide seed data for subsequent proposals to external funding agencies. A series of mini-experiments will be developed for use by both undergraduates and graduate students, allowing the sites to be used as outdoor classrooms by both UNC and Duke.
Bob Goldstein (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Philip Benfey (Duke)-$1,650
Duke/UNC Biology Seminar Series
The Biology Departments at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University have a history of beneficial interactions, but no current dual-department activities exist that are institutionalized or regularly shared. Since students of biology are inspired by world-class researchers and great speakers, we propose inviting to each campus three nationally-recognized researchers to give Robertson Seminars to undergraduates, graduate students, post docs and faculty, and to gather seminar attendees for a dual-campus reception event during each visit. We would use Robertson funds for events during the 2004-2005 academic calendar year, and we would build on a successful program by institutionalizing these events for the future as part of the departments' established seminar programs.
Kirby Van Amburgh (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Margaret Andres (Duke)-$1,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University: Volunteer Enrichment Sessions
Big Brothers Big Sisters at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University are requesting funds to support their project for "Volunteer Enrichment Sessions". The project will include four enrichment sessions and a year-end event. These activities will include students from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. These students are Big Brothers and Big Sisters with our student-run partnerships at the above universities.
Geoff Sayre-McCord (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Alex Rosenberg (Duke)-$1,000
Duke/UNC Collaborative Workshop in Philosophy
The Philosophy Departments at UNC-Chapel Hill and at Duke University hope that the Robertson Foundation will continue its support for the UNC-Duke Collaborative Philosophy Workshop. If the Robertson Scholars Program renews our funding, we would again circulate a call for proposals. We are confident that the request for proposals will again work well to build ties between the two departments. At the same time, we have no doubt that we would receive several proposals for workshops prove accessible and exciting for students. The second collaborative philosophy workshop would be convened next spring, again over a weekend. Following the model used this year, preparatory sessions would be held in advance of the workshop and then the workshop would meet one day at Duke and the other at UNC.
Alex Rosenberg (Duke) and Douglas McLean (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$2,500
Curricular Development Grants In PPE
Faculty and administration at our two campuses are in the process of designing a new joint Duke Certificate/UNC Minor at the intersection of economics, political science and philosophy, in the tradition of the Oxford PPE program. The certificate/minor PPE program will be directed by Geoffrey Brennan, a distinguished scholar in this area, currently at the Australian National University, who will be appointed at (and paid equally by) both campuses. Professor Brennan will be assisted by an advisory board drawn from at least six different departments in both universities. The program, which is designed to include distinctive gateway and capstone classes, will be offered to an equal number of UNC and Duke undergraduates, and taught equally at both campuses. The UNC/Duke PPE is the first joint undergraduate curricular initiative to be undertaken by both campuses. We hope that it will be an important next step in deepening the collaboration inspired by the Robertson Scholars Program. The start-up funds for this program are being provided from discretionary funds of the chairs of the participating departments and the provosts of the two campuses.
Jonathan Hess (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Ann Rasmussen (Duke)-$500
German studies in progress seminars
Building on past collaborative work, the German Departments at UNC and Duke are now proposing a joint works in progress group for 2004-05-and the future. The group will meet monthly to hear a graduate student or faculty member from UNC or Duke present a portion of his or her current research and field questions on his or her presentation. The works in progress seminar will enrich the quality of graduate education at both institutions, create a forum for graduate students and faculty from both institutions to work together, and build crucial bridges between our two departments.
Prerack Bathia (UNC-ChapellHill) and Antoine Artiganave (Duke)-$300
Carolina Conference in International Affairs (CCIA)
The "Carolina Conference in International Affairs," a three day conference of Duke-UNC undergraduate "brainpower," is dedicated to the discussion of certain topics in international affairs. Its participants mostly from Duke and UNC, through debates and workshops, will produce a position memo to be presented to relevant institutions in the idea of directly influencing the international debate. A board of directors will be responsible for the choice of the conference's yearly topic, its sustainability, and its application process. The broader Duke-UNC community will also gain as every student will have access to the debates and various speaker events throughout the conference.
Chris Manz (Duke) and Marce Abare (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$1,300
Partners In Education And Research In Sub-Saharan Africa (PERSA)
To develop Partners in Education and Research in Sub-Saharan Africa (PERSA), an annual 8-week summer student internship program in Tanzania. PERSA enables Duke, UNC and Tanzanian students to engage in cooperative research and to learn about the health care sector of a developing country. Additionally, to promote this and other collaborations between Duke and UNC, we will host a conference in September that highlights the activities of Duke and UNC student groups related to HIV/AIDS.
Michael Gustafson II (Duke) and Carlton Puryear, Jr. (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$1,000
War and peace on Tobacco Road
This project seeks to improve the collaboration between UNC and Duke by giving support to NROTC units at UNC and Duke to co-host speakers on topics of interest to the military community. Closer ties between the individual units will then be leveraged to seek closer ties between the schools by advertising to and accommodating other ROTC units and eventually any interested students.
Robert Mitchell (Duke) and Barbara Moran (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$1,350
Comic Book Cultures: A Colloquium
In the past five years, comic books have been the subject of increasing academic interest and study. Because of their large collections of comic books, both Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill promise to be important sites for such study, and we propose to take advantage of this recent interest by sponsoring a one-day colloquium on comic book studies on Duke University's campus, featuring 3-5 of the most prestigious of these new comic book scholars; this colloquium will be coordinated with a joint exhibition (hosted at Duke's Perkins Library) of Duke's Murray Collection and UNC's Breen Collection.
Emily Heikamp (Duke) and W. Franklin Horn (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$2,000
Triangle Undergraduate Research Symposium
Although Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NC State University already hold research symposia for their own undergraduates in the spring (Visible Thinking, the Celebration of Undergraduate Research, and the North Carolina State University Undergraduate Research Symposium, respectively), only the Triangle Undergraduate Research Symposium enables students to share their work and collaborate with students on other campuses. Furthermore, the fall timing of this event will give students an opportunity to present the results of their summer research without having to wait for spring symposia, which are planned to capture the research activities of students during the academic year.
Anna Scheyett (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Marvin Swartz (Duke)-$1,000
Preparing Mental Health Practitioners for 21st Century Practice: A Collaborative Exploration of Curriculum Needs
Faculty from both institutions who teach in the area of mental health will engage in collaborative exploration of the implications of state and federal mental health reform for their curricula. They will develop ongoing mechanisms for collaboration in course revision and resource sharing to ensure that the training of future mental health professionals is syntonic with the goals of mental health reform. This will occur though a summit meeting of relevant faculty and students, a follow up meeting 6 months later, a web site of resources, a listserv, and other strategies for ongoing communication.
Hernan Perez (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Marcel Yang (Duke)-$1,000
Duke-UNC Kendo Alliance
This project aims to practice, teach, and promote the art of Kendo in Duke, UNC and the surrounding community. Funds requested will go to a one-time purchase of Kendo armor for both universities clubs, alleviating the financial strain on students to purchase the costly armor on their own and thus stimulate growth and interaction between the Duke and UNC clubs.
Jenny Huq (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Betsy Alden (Duke)-$2,000
Reflection and Service-Learning Course
The APPLES Service-Learning Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and LEAPS (Learning through Experience, Action, Partnership, and Service) at Duke University propose to extend and expand our collaborative effort to enhance service-learning and reflection at both universities.
Mejs Hasan (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Adam Yoffie (Duke)-$250
Supporting the Global Village Foundation
Human Rights Week 2004 at UNC Chapel Hill was honored with a keynote speech by Le Ly Hayslip, a survivor of the Vietnam War. Ms. Hayslip has created the Global Village Foundation, which attracts funds to build primary schools, cultural/vocational training centers, and other infrastructure in Vietnam. In order to keep the link between Ms. Hayslip's vision and the Triangle universities strong, a coalition of Duke and UNC students would like to launch a series of panels, speakers, and other educational forums to spread knowledge and support of the Global Village Foundation.
Linda Arnade (Duke) and Kelley De Leeuw (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$2,000
Duke-UNC Public Health Symposium
This symposium will bring together Duke and UNC professors, students, and other community members to discuss a wide range of local, national, and international public health issues such as AIDS, minority health, health disparities, alcohol on college campuses, etc. by panel/speaker discussions, poster presentations to present current student and faculty research, more informal roundtable discussions, film showings, and a keynote speaker(s). The first joint Duke-UNC public health publication will be distributed and continued through the establishment of a Duke-UNC Public Health Student Coalition as a result of this symposium. This coalition will continue to plan similar events at both universities.
John Brown (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Department of Music at Duke-$1,000
Valentine's Day Jazz Festival
This project brings students in the jazz ensembles at Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University together. The main event is a concert at the Carolina Theater on February 14, 2005, featuring the ensembles of each university in the first half, and then an ensemble made up of students and faculty from all three campuses in the second half. The project will require a series of rehearsals and a social event so students will interact the day of the performance.
William Lavy (Duke) and Will Smith (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$2,500
ABCD (Asset Based Community Development) Education/Tutoring At Durham Nativity School Through Newman Catholic Students At Duke And UNC
Students from the Duke and UNC Newman Catholic Centers will drive the pilot year of the 8th grade yearlong service-learning component of the Durham Nativity School (DNS), educating tomorrow's community leaders. They will receive training on the ABCD model, the pinnacle of DNS's service learning training; jointly teach/facilitate, once every two weeks, the 8th grade ABCD class as part of their regular curriculum, ending in the completion of a self-generated community project; serve as tutors/mentors at least once a week to an 8th grade student they are paired with; facilitate a community project of mural painting in Durham to teach students about community service and leadership.
Aaron McKethan (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Megan Burns (Duke)-$2,500
Duke/UNC Health Policy Forum
This grant request proposes to initiate the Duke/UNC Health Policy Seminar, a collaborative cross-campus seminar series for health policy-oriented graduate and professional students. The proposed series will be devoted to discussion and analysis of contemporary health policy problems and the legal, political, and ethical problems they raise. The series will encourage significant interdisciplinary, cross-campus collaboration to fulfill the important objectives of the Robertson Scholars Collaboration Fund.
Tareq Barto (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Yvonne Cao (Duke)-$1,860
Duke-UNC Language House Alliance
We are requesting funding for programs that will foster social, academic and cultural exchange by encouraging the use of foreign languages. With the recently growing interest in the Language House communities at UNC and Duke, we believe this is the best time to support collaboration between the houses. Not only is there growing interest in our programs, but our members are also more involved and engaged than ever. We invite the Robertson Scholars program to take advantage of our energy and our desire to bring students together by encouraging the study of languages and by fostering culture exchange.
Sharon James (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Sheila Dillon (Duke)-$2,400
Approaches to the Study of Women in Antiquity: A Pedagogical Exploration
The study of women in antiquity is increasingly popular among scholars and undergraduates. Next fall we will offer a joint Duke-UNC Course on the subject, a model for inter-institutional and interdisciplinary study. We plan to bring in four speakers for two mini-colloquia related to the course. These internationally renowned scholars will give public presentations on women, religion, art, and work in antiquity, then join our students for study sessions. We seek support for these colloquia. We plan to establish a permanent Duke-UNC Study Group on Women in Antiquity; next year will be the pilot stage.
Ricky Chen (Duke) and Laurel Wamsley (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$250
Duke/Carolina Young Writers' Conference
Area elementary-school children will be invited to spend a day on campus, participating in workshops led by student volunteers and meeting with children's' book authors. Duke and UNC students who are passionate about writing will meet jointly to plan the event, and will learn how to facilitate writing workshops from creative writing faculty at both campuses. The Conference will give university students the opportunity to see their craft from a fresh perspective, making use of the resources at both universities and tapping into the vibrant writing community in North Carolina.
Altha Cravey (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Charles Thompson (Duke)-$1,500
Mexico-US Connections: Immigration, Farm Work and Latinos in North Carolina
We propose to work together in our two courses, "Farm workers in North Carolina" (Cultural Anthropology 162S, Duke University) and "Mobile Geographies: The Political Economy of Migration" (Geography 152, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), so that students from both campuses travel together on a farm worker-oriented fieldtrip, organize a small student-run conference, and host speakers to both classes and both campuses. While the Duke course has been highly successful over the past decade, the UNC course is a new one that will be taught for the first time in fall 2004. As part of a newly approved minor in Latina/Latino Studies at UNC it will be offered on a regular basis in the future. Our hope and intention is to collaborate on these topics in ways that will expand and deepen each year, through linked courses, networking, and publications.
John Rimel (Duke) and Meredith Webb (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$1,000
Camp Kesem
The Camp Kesem Duke-UNC collaboration program is a supplementary project designed to increase the visibility and presence of Camp Kesem, a one-week summer cam for children whose parents have or have passed away from cancer. Although Camp Kesem was founded by three Duke students, it has recruited counselors and board members from UNC-Chapel Hill, and plans to expand to a completely joint program by the summer of 1005.
Brett Wilson (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Karen Ruffle (Duke)-$1,000
Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference
We aim to host a joint graduate student conference on Islamic studies, involving faculty, undergraduate and graduate students from both campuses. Moreover, we plan to improve the infrastructure and organization based on our experience hosting the conference this year.
Nadia Yaqub (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Ellen McLarney (Duke)-$2,500
Through Palestinian Eyes: a UNC-Duke Exploration of Palestinian Film and Visual Art
"Through Palestinian Eyes" incorporates co-curricular cultural events into courses in Arabic language and culture, history, and anthropology at Duke and UNC over the 2004/05 academic year. The project will comprise screenings of feature length films (three at UNC and three at Duke), a student-curate presentation of short films and talks at UNC, and an art installation and lecture by artist Mona Hatoum at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke. We will also be inviting filmmaker Marcel Khleifi to speak at the screening of his latest film Route 181. Students enrolled in 16 courses taught at the two campuses will be attending the series.
Amy Lambert (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Heather Williams (Duke)-$1,160
Best Buddies
The Best Buddies chapters of UNC and Duke strive to enhance the lives of adults with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships with students. Once a month, the chapters provide a group outing in the community or on campus so the students and adults from the community can congregate. We would like to take both chapters to the Duke Primate Center and the Asheboro Zoo via the Robertson Scholar Bus and a charter bus respectively.
Carly Knight (Duke) and Mary Williams (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$1,000
Measles Initiative Campaign
In the year 2000, nearly a million children a year died of measles. Over half this number comes from African children alone. The Measles Initiative is a campaign begun by the World Health Organization, the CDC, the Red Cross, the United Nations, and UNICEF, which aims to vaccinate over 1.5 million at-risk African children over the next five years. The Duke Measles Campaign seeks to raise funds for vaccinations. Every dollar raised literally transfers into one vaccine produced, transported, and administered. In addition, the campaign seeks to raise awareness about a disease largely forgotten in the United States. By collaborating with UNC on several different fundraiser/awareness activities, we hope to broaden our support base and more than double the number of lifesaving vaccines we are able to provide to African children.
Meenakshi Chivukula (Duke) and Madeline Walter (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$2,400
Festival for Change: Student Documentary for Social Change
A documentary festival for students at UNC and Duke that uses established resources from academic departments, community service centers, and the local community. Through panel discussions, screenings and networking, Duke Students of the World would like to facilitate a conversation on expanding SOW to UNC as a sustaining student forum for documentary work for social change.
Robert Jenkins (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Edna Andrews (Duke)-$2,000
Rethinking Russian and East European Studies: Meeting Challenges for Faculty and Administrators
The Centers for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Duke and UNC-CH propose a semester long initiative to assess the current state of teaching and research on each campus and propose future priorities. The process would involve opening public sessions and a retreat for students, faculty, and administrators that would draw on national level experts. Working groups would then be created to make recommendations to a final retreat to be held in late fall or early winter. The recommendations would be used to seek financial support for new projects and identify priorities for future U.S. Department of Education grant competition.
Suzanne Shanahan (Duke) and Charles Kurzman (UNC-Chapel Hill)-$2,500
Duke/UNC Graduate Seminar on Sociological Theory
This collaborative proposal seeks funds to develop a co-taught graduate seminar in sociological theory, which be a requirement for incoming graduate students in the Departments of Sociology at both Duke and UNC.
