Speakers:
- Sarah Dunham - Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality at the US Environmental Protection Agency
- Helen Ryan - Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada (invited)
- Dan Sperling - Director, Institute of Transportation Studies at University of California - Davis & Board Member, California Air Resources Board
- Merran Smith - Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada
Join us on March 10th at 11 am EST as the Center for Global Reproductive Health's kicks off our Spring Speaker series during the week of International Women's Day! Kate Rademacher and Rebecca Callahan join us from FHI 360 to discuss contraceptive healthcare and development. This panel will cover topics from contraceptive research and development to global efforts to expand levonorgestrel IUD availability in low-income countries.
Register: http://duke.is/sZSz4n
Zoom focuses on collaboration between users through audio/visual communication and screen sharing and much more. Also learn about whiteboards, polling, breakout rooms, annotations, and much more. Join us for Zoom Advanced Options.
During spring 2021, Virtues & Vocations is offering a series of conversations at noon on Tuesdays. Reimagining Education: Character, Commitment and Community will consider issues in pre-professional and professional education related to character, purpose and vocation. On March 23, we are thrilled to welcome Shoshana Zuboff. Shoshana Zuboff and Kenan Institute for Ethics Director Suzanne Shanahan will consider the question "What is the moral responsibility of engineers?"
Join us on March 24th at 12:30 for a virtual show and tell of the History of Medical Collections Library, featuring a mix of medical instruments and books/archives related to women's health.
Across the energy sector, women make up less than 30% of the workforce, but that is changing as more young women enter the sector and as the industry makes a concentrated effort to increase gender diversity.
What's it like to be a woman working in energy? What can both female and male executives do to encourage more diversity in the sector? And what skills make any young professional well prepared for a career in energy?
Join Dr. Jimmie Lenz, the Director of the Master of Engineering Program in Financial Technology, and Lee Reiners, the Executive Director of the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke University for an informal discussion on decentralized finance versus traditional finance, pro's, con's and all the rest.
Interested in attending? Please email DukeBlockchainHelp@duke.edu for the Zoom information.
Catherine Coley the CEO of Binance US presents to Duke FinTech students.
Email DukeBlockchainHelp@duke.edu for Zoom information.
Shannon Loftis is the VP/studio head for World's Edge, the Microsoft studio of Age of Empires. A Duke CS/Math alum, she'll discuss her journey as a game developer, including gaming history, trend observations, hard-knock lessons and suggestions on how to get into the industry and make it yours. Don't miss it!
VIRTUAL EVENT. For Zoom info, please email:
jschmidt@cs.duke.edu
