Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 6:00pm - 9:00 pm
Contact: Michael Schwartz, ms206@duke.edu
Sponsor: EVCC, DSC, CEI, CERC, GPSC, Wyrick
Where: The Fuqua School of Business, HCA Auditorium
Why:

To understand how to create a successful business plan,

(1) Come listen to Matt Kane, founder and CEO of Precision Biosciences ,a successful Duke University technology spin-out, as he describes how an entrepreneur can communicate the strengths of his/her idea to potential investors.

(2) The schedule is the same as always:  6pm-7pm Social Hour... 7pm-8pm the Speaker... 8pm-9pm Additional Networking

(3) Come for the speaker, or stay for all three. Open to all students, staff, and faculty.

(4) For full schedule and past speaker presentations visit http://www.dukeDEES.com/

(5) Sign up for future email announcement list at  http://www.dukedees.com/joinourmailinglist

The Duke Entrepreneurship Education Series (DEES) is a comprehensive program designed to introduce all Duke students – from both graduate and undergraduate schools – to the key concepts necessary for a future in entrepreneurship, small business, or venture capital.

The inaugural series will take place from September 2008 to January 2009, and each event will be taught by a leading entrepreneur or venture capitalist.

Our next event takes place on October 9nd, and subsequent events will take place on regular Thursdays thereafter.

The series is designed to connect students from all across the Duke community, including the business, law, engineering, and life science fields.  The goal of the series is to not only practically educate, but to increase the likelihood that exciting developments and ideas from the lab will find the key collaborators necessary to translate innovations into fully-fledged companies.

The majority of events are front-loaded into September and October, for the express purpose of giving students, earlier, a stronger foundation to participate in a variety of activities in the Duke community, such as the Duke Startup Challenge, the Duke Entrepreneur, Markets and Management, EVCC, VCIC, Venture Fellows, and more. 

Each event will start with a social hour and refreshments, and then continue with the same after the speaker, to better facilitate interaction between constituencies throughout the school.

Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 6:00pm - 9:00 pm
Contact: Michael Schwartz, ms206@duke.edu
Sponsor: EVCC, DSC, CEI, CERC, Wyrick
Where:  The Fuqua School of Business, HCA Auditorium
Why:

To understand how venture capital can affect any kind of startup,

(1) Come listen to Rob Hallford and Amy Laverdiere, former and current Fuqua students with significant experience in venture capital, as they describe how venture capital firms look for potential investments.

(2) Sign up for the event:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=tGX45tVoOHno7vKH7ycpTQ_3d_3d

(3) The schedule is the same as always:  6pm-7pm Social Hour... 7pm-8pm the Speaker... 8pm-9pm Additional Networking

(4) Come for the speaker, or stay for all three. Open to all students, staff, and faculty.

(5) For full schedule and past speaker presentations visit: http://www.dukeDEES.com/

 

The Duke Entrepreneurship Education Series (DEES) is a comprehensive program designed to introduce all Duke students – from both graduate and undergraduate schools – to the key concepts necessary for a future in entrepreneurship, small business, or venture capital.

The inaugural series will take place from September 2008 to January 2009, and each event will be taught by a leading entrepreneur or venture capitalist.

Our next event takes place on October 9nd, and subsequent events will take place on regular Thursdays thereafter.

The series is designed to connect students from all across the Duke community, including the business, law, engineering, and life science fields.  The goal of the series is to not only practically educate, but to increase the likelihood that exciting developments and ideas from the lab will find the key collaborators necessary to translate innovations into fully-fledged companies.

The majority of events are front-loaded into September and October, for the express purpose of giving students, earlier, a stronger foundation to participate in a variety of activities in the Duke community, such as the Duke Startup Challenge, the Duke Entrepreneur, Markets and Management, EVCC, VCIC, Venture Fellows, and more. 

Each event will start with a social hour and refreshments, and then continue with the same after the speaker, to better facilitate interaction between constituencies throughout the school.

Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 - 3:00pm - 5:00 pm
Contact: Melanie Sereny
Sponsor: Duke China Forum
Where:

The Multicultural Center Lounge, Bryan Center

Duke West Campus http://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/location/index.html

Why:

 

 

  Duke China Forum cordially invites you to a talk by
Dr. Jie Lu, Department of Political Science, Duke University
"Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural China"
The Multicultural Center Lounge, Bryan CenterDuke West Campus http://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/location/index.html
October 3, 2008, Friday, 3:00-5:00 pm
Light refreshments are provided.

Bio:Jie Lu is a graduate student of political science at Duke University studying comparative politics -- more specifically, the political economy of institutional change, local governance, political opinion and behavior in non- and new-democracies. He is also interested in the application of statistical modeling and survey methods in political analysis. Before coming to the US for graduate studies, Jie Lu got a master's degree in IR and a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering at Tsinghua University of China. Varieties of Governance: Rural-Urban Migration and Transformed Governance in Rural ChinaThis project investigates the varied institutional foundations of local governance in rural China with central emphasis on the role of communal structures and rural-urban migration. Instead of treating indigenously developed institutions (IDIs) and externally imposed institutions (EIIs) as competing variables as in most other contemporary research on local governance, I develop a theoretical framework exploring the interaction between the two types of institutions in sustaining local governance as well as analyzing how communal structural features shape this interaction and influence their respective effectiveness in ensuring local governance. With the help of a nationally representative survey, a local non-representative survey, and carefully selected case studies, I document how IDIs and EIIs sustain local governance in rural China respectively, scrutinize the impact of transformed communal structure (driven by rural-urban migration) on the operation and performance of IDIs and EIIs, and explain the existence of varying institutional foundations of local governance in rural China.

--
Duke China Forum
Email: dukechinaforum@gmail.com.
Website: http://www.dukechinaforum.blogspot.com/.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10641158522.

Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 6:00pm - 9:00 pm
Contact: Michael Schwartz, ms206@duke.edu
Sponsor: EVCC, DSC, CEI, CERC, Wyrick
Where: The Teer Building (Engineering), Room 203, by the entrance
Why:

To understand how startups, of all kinds, get financing:

1) Come listen to Rich West, a highly-successful biotech entrepreneur and current CEO of Advanced Liquid Logic (a Duke University spinout), as he describes how startups of all kinds can acquire financing, big or small.

2) After he speaks, there will be a Duke Startup Challenge matching event, where students will a) pitch ideas and solicit teammates, or b) sit in the audience and listen for company ideas they want to work on developing.  (Sign-up here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=aBxN62wpJzbvjrCp2LCdCQ_3d_3d )

3) The schedule is the same as always:  6pm-7pm Social Hour...  7pm-8pm the Speaker...  8pm-9pm the DSC matching event.

4) Come for just the speaker, or stay for all three.  Open to all students, staff, and faculty.

5) Visit the website for more info: http://www.dukeDEES.com/

================================= 

 

 

=================================

The Duke Entrepreneurship Education Series (DEES) is a comprehensive program designed to introduce all Duke students – from both graduate and undergraduate schools – to the key concepts necessary for a future in entrepreneurship, small business, or venture capital.

The inaugural series will take place from September 2008 to January 2009, and each event will be taught by a leading entrepreneur or venture capitalist.

Our next event takes place on October 2nd, and subsequent events will take place on regular Thursdays thereafter.

The series is designed to connect students from all across the Duke community, including the business, law, engineering, and life science fields.  The goal of the series is to not only practically educate, but to increase the likelihood that exciting developments and ideas from the lab will find the key collaborators necessary to translate innovations into fully-fledged companies.

The majority of events are front-loaded into September and October, for the express purpose of giving students, earlier, a stronger foundation to participate in a variety of activities in the Duke community, such as the Duke Startup Challenge, the Duke Entrepreneur, Markets and Management, EVCC, VCIC, Venture Fellows, and more. 

Each event will start with a social hour and refreshments, and then continue with the same after the speaker, to better facilitate interaction between constituencies throughout the school.

 

 

 

Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 12:15pm - 1:15 pm
Contact: outlaw@law.duke.edu
Sponsor: OUTlaw
Where: Law School 3043
Why: Tom Clark, Duke alumnus and retired commander USNR, and Aaron Tax, managing attorney for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, to discuss the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy, its legal framework and history, arguments for keeping/changing it, and stories of how it has impacted LGBT individuals in the armed forces. Current challenges, the future of the policy, and your questions/comments will be part of the discussion. Lunch served. Hosted by OUTlaw and cosponsored by the Duke Law ACLU.

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 9:00am - 10:00 am
Contact: phoebe.lee@duke.edu
Sponsor: WiSE: Women in Science and Engineering
Where:

French 4320

Why: Our first mentoring breakfast will be with Kathy Kleiman, a historian, attorney, and computer scientist who is producing a documentary on the pioneering women programmers of the ENIAC, the first all-electronic programmable computer. Come chat with her before her RENCI Distinguished Lecture on these women computer pioneers. Free breakfast!! Please visit our website to RSVP! (http://www.duke.edu/web/wise/events.html#Kleiman)

Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 6:00pm - 9:00 pm
Contact: Michael Schwartz, ms206@duke.edu
Sponsor: EVCC, DSC, CEI, CERC
Where: The Teer Building (Engineering), Room 203, by the entrance
Why:

For grad students interested in starting a company:

1) Come listen to Dave Samuel, a highly-successful serial entrepreneur who founded Spinner.com (sold to AOL for $400M) and Grouper.com (sold to Sony for $68M).

2) After he speaks, there will be a workshop where students can practice sharing their ideas, evaluate them, and receive feedback from peers and experienced entrepreneurs.

3) The schedule is the same as always:  6pm-7pm Social Hour...  7pm-8pm the Speaker...  8pm-9pm the Workshop Event.

4) Come for just the speaker, or stay for all three.  Open to all students, staff, and faculty.

5) Visit the website for more info: http://www.dukeDEES.com/

 

=================================

The Duke Entrepreneurship Education Series (DEES) is a comprehensive program designed to introduce all Duke students – from both graduate and undergraduate schools – to the key concepts necessary for a future in entrepreneurship, small business, or venture capital.

The inaugural series will take place from September 2008 to January 2009, and each event will be taught by a leading entrepreneur or venture capitalist.

Our next event takes place on September 25, and subsequent events will take place on regular Thursdays thereafter.

The series is designed to connect students from all across the Duke community, including the business, law, engineering, and life science fields.  The goal of the series is to not only practically educate, but to increase the likelihood that exciting developments and ideas from the lab will find the key collaborators necessary to translate innovations into fully-fledged companies.

The majority of events are front-loaded into September and October, for the express purpose of giving students, earlier, a stronger foundation to participate in a variety of activities in the Duke community, such as the Duke Startup Challenge, the Duke Entrepreneur, Markets and Management, EVCC, VCIC, Venture Fellows, and more. 

Each event will start with a social hour and refreshments, and then continue with the same after the speaker, to better facilitate interaction between constituencies throughout the school.

 

Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 5:11pm - 5:11 pm
Contact: Nancy Kelly
Sponsor: Nicholas School of the Environment
Where: Page Auditorium
Why: National Geographic and the Nicholas School will host “An Evening of Field Research and Exploration,” at 7:30 p.m. in Duke’s Page Auditorium.

The evening event, which is free and open to the public, will feature presentations by three National Geographic explorers. John Francis, vice president of research, conservation and exploration at National Geographic, will share highlights from his research on seals in the Juan Fernandez Islands of southern Chile. Adventure filmmaker and author Rick Ridgeway will recount his 275-mile journey on foot through the Chang Tang region of the Himalayas to the high-altitude calving grounds of the elusive Tibetan antelope. Nicholas School alumnus Luke Dollar, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, will present his research on Madagascar’s endangered predator, the cat-like fossa, and his efforts to work with local villagers to conserve its dwindling habitat.

Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 5:30pm - 7:30 pm
Contact: phoebe.lee@duke.edu
Sponsor: WiSE, GPWN, and GPSC.
Where:

Place: Teer 203

Why:

Meet incoming students from throughout the university! A panel of women from the graduate and professional schools will share their experiences and tips for thriving at Duke. This informative session seeks to provide a safe forum for exploring the "how to’s" and "why not’s" of graduate life as well as a great opportunity to network with women both within and outside of your school or department. Start off the school year smart! Co-sponsored with GPWN (Graduate and Professional Women’s Network) and GPSC (Graduate and Professional Student Council). PleaseRSVP online (from http://www.duke.edu/web/wise/events.html)

Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008 - 5:30pm - 8:00 pm
Contact: Sujatha Jagannathan sj35@duke.edu
Sponsor: Association for India's Development, GPSC (decision awaited)
Where: Von Canon C, Bryan Center
Why: