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Duke Flags Lowered: Mentor, Scholar and Administrator Jo Rae Wright Dies We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Jo Rae Wright, former Dean of the Graduate School. The Duke community and graduate educators beyond Duke shared the excitement of her visionary and energetic leadership of the Duke Graduate School. We mourn her passing, not only because she was a prescient and persuasive administrative leader of the Graduate School and an increasingly respected voice for graduate education nationally, but also because she was a warm, open, and caring human being. Duke will be honoring her appropriately in the coming days. Please visit the ATS website (American Thoracic Society, where Jo Rae was past president ) to read their tribute to Jo Rae; also see the posting in The Chronicle of Higher Education, and listen to the (State of Things with Frank Stasio) interview with Provost Lange and Vice Dean for Research Kornbluth.
Duke University establishes two fellowships to honor Jo Rae Wright
The Jo Rae Wright Fellowship for Outstanding Women in Science will annually recognize one Ph.D. student in the biomedical sciences and one in the natural sciences whose research shows particular creativity and promise. The graduate school will select the recipients, beginning with the next academic year.
December 2011 Graduate School Newsletter
Duke is an energetic and vibrant university at the forefront of graduate education. Graduate students are an integral part of its research, teaching, and service missions. The hallmark of graduate education at Duke is a rich blend of deep, specialized knowledge in a field of study combined with opportunities for significant exposure to intersections at the boundaries and frontiers of other fields, where multidisciplinary approaches are key to discovery...Read more from the Dean
Ariel Dorfman, Walter Hines Page Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies, was on sabbatical from Duke this past year to focus on his writing, which he did in abundance. In September, the second volume of his memoirs, Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He spent the fall giving readings in most of the U.S. major cities, as well as a reading in Duke’s Gothic Reading Room, which can still be viewed at Duke On Demand. He appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and the Tavis Smiley show, and will be heard on NPR’s The Story. Excerpts from the memoir were published in Harper’s, Granta magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Nation. more >
