The American Fisheries Society is an international organization whose mission is 'to improve

the conservation and sustainability of fishery resources and aqautic ecosystems.' Duke Fish,

Duke's Chapter of the AFS, strives to educate people about the importance of sustainable

and local seafood.  We achieve this through education, field trips, community outreach,

and professional lecture series.

The Duke IHI Open School Chapter is an interdisciplinary organization affiliated with the

Institute of Healthcare Improvement, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to leading

patient safety and quality improvement in health care around the world. The Open School

works at Duke to empower future health leaders of all fields with the knowledge and tools

to promote healthcare improvement.

Duke Against War exists to educate the Duke community about the Iraq war and the

Palestinian cause. We advocate against war and occupation, and in favor of peace,

order, and international law.

We aim to coordinate education, activism, and social awareness with regards to the issue
of animal rights. We work within the Duke and Durham communities in constructing agendas
and organizing events.

The Living Policy Forum (LPF) is a graduate student organization affiliated with the Sanford
Institute’s Master of Public Policy Program. Our mission is to create a “forum” – a space –
for discussion and learning about the development and delivery of innovative public policy.
We are particularly interested in policy initiatives that cross traditional sector boundaries such
as the academic, nonprofit, business, law, and/or public sectors. We also want to facilitate
opportunities to learn from practitioners in our local community, and to give back through
community service.

LGSA is an association for and of graduate and professional students who, regardless of
whether or not they identify themselves as 'latin@s', are interested in issues related to
Latin@ communities in the U.S., and, more specifically, in Duke and Durham. We seek to
generate an environment in which we can come together to meet and support each other,
as well as to engage in productive conversations and debates.

UAEM strives to inform others of the global access to medicines crisis. We hope to build
support for university-centered solutions to the proble of access to medicines. In particular,
we focus on university medical technology licensing policy, neglected disease research
funding, and promoting university research that is access-friendly.

We're a network of women graduate students and post-doctoral associates at Duke
working to improve the climate for women in science and engineering.

DukeOUT is a student-run organization dedicated to bringing together Duke's LGBT
graduate and professional students and our allies. DukeOUT hosts educational and social
events for Duke students and the surrounding community and serves as a conduit for local
and regional events that may be of interest to LGBT and allied students.