Duke Graduate & Professional Students:

You have been challenged by Durham middle schoolers to a basketball game on Feb. 24th!

We will go with 5th & 6th graders to the Duke' women's basketball versus Virginia at 12:30. Then, we will go to Card Gym for the basketball challenge! We have the gym from 2:30 to 4:30pm, so there will be time for a rematch.

If you cannot make it to the women's game, please feel free to join us afterward in Card Gym for the challenge segment of the day. Just make sure you indicate this in your RSVP!

Basketball tickets, pizza, and soda will be provided!

To participate in this joint GPSC Community Service and Duke Durham Neighborhood Partnership event, please email me at jfs13@duke.edu.

Thanks,
Jennifer

Hi all,

The GPSC Community Service Committee and the Fuqua Social Impact Club are once again collaborating to hold our second annual "Duke Impact Night", designed to encourage more networking and communication between Graduate and Professional Service Groups.  If you are the leader of a service group, or even if you're just really active in community service / socially-minded programming, we would love to have you join us at this informal gathering.  The event is invite-only, RSVP-required, BUT, you can easily get an invite simply by emailing us at dukeimpact@gmail.com and telling us a little bit about yourself and your endevours.  Please get back to us quickly though as the event will be held the evening of February 12th.

Thanks and we hope to hear from you!

The Duke Impact Team 

Hi all!  The first swimming clinic of the new year will be on Sunday January 20th.  There will also be clinics on February 10th, March 30th, and April 20th all Sundays from 5:30-6:30pm. Graduate volunteers are needed both to help teach lessons and to run registration and do other odd (non-water) jobs.  For more info contact lauren.gonzalez@duke.edu

Did you know that:
* Every five minutes, someone in this country is diagnosed with blood cancer: Every ten minutes, someone loses the fight.
* Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children.
* Lymphomas are the most common blood cancers.
* The myeloma survival rate is only 32 percent.

The Light The Night Walk is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's nationwide walk to raise awareness and funds to cure leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.  The Durham Light the Night event will be held at dusk on Tuesday, September 11th at the American Tobacco Campus.

The Duke Graduate Students Team will fundraise for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society together, with creative events, fundraisers and letter campaigns. Then we will walk as a team at the Light the Night event in September, to show solidarity, and that Duke graduate Students are active in the greater community. We're participating in the walk in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancer. These people are the real heroes, and we need your support to help accelerate cures and give hope to patients and their families. Although research is responsible for increasing survival rates for these diseases, the battle is far from over.

To join the Duke Graduate Students group, go to this page and register: http://teams.lightthenight.org/DukeGraduateStudents

Anyone who wants to help lead the team and become a co-captain should email me at eam29@duke.edu

The first organizational meeting will be at 5pm at the LSRC patio on Monday, August 6th.

RTI International/ Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Interventions (SATEI) has several community based research studies in the Triangle area. Please visit our website formore information about what we do: www.rti.org/satei

We are looking for volunteers to help us with our Women’s Coop II and Pregnant women’s Coop studies. If interested in this volunteer opportunity, please e-mail Judit Albert at jalbert@rti.org or Rachel Middlesteadt Ellerson at rachelm@rti.org for more information.

We will be holding a volunteer Orientation Session on August 11th. If interested in attending please RSVP to the above contacts by August 9th.

Thank you,
Judit Albert

Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity!

The Eno River Festival is the biggest event of the year for the Eno River Association--please volunteer and support an active environmental organization in our backyard. Free admission with volunteering (and the shifts are only 2.5-3 hours)! Lots of great music and food...

Here's the link to the Eno Festival homepage: http://www.enoriver.org/Festival/index.html

Just click on the "Volunteer" button and sign up for whatever area looks interesting. Anybody who is specifically interested in helping out with the Environmental Education for Kids area should check the box for "EEEK", and Kathy Lee will contact them to coordinate a shift.

Date: Saturday, May 19, 2007 - 6:30pm - 11:59 pm
Contact: Julie Roy, jar7@duke.edu
Sponsor: Band Together, Big Brothers - Big Sisters of the Triangle, GPSC Community Service
Where: In front of the Lincoln Theatre in downtown Raleigh at 126 E. Cabarrus Street (between Wilmington and Blount Streets)
Why: "Band Together" is a program that brings bands to the Triangle and donates the proceeds from the show to a charity. This year, the profits will go to Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle. We need about 10 people to assist with taking tickets, checking IDs, set-up and break-down, bartending, etc. This is a great deal since normally tickets cost almost $20 and volunteers get in for free!  This year's bands are Son Volt, Kennebec, and Balsa Glider.  For more information you can also see http://www.bandtogethernc.org/home/ or email jar7@duke.edu.