Boost Your Financial IQ: Accessing the Services of the Duke Credit Union
Did you know that any graduate student paid by Duke University is eligible to be a member of Duke University Federal Credit Union? We are your Credit Union, conveniently located at 2200 West Main Street, Durham. Since 1968, Duke Credit Union has provided the best in financial services to the Duke community. As a not-for-profit cooperative, solely owned by Duke University and Duke Health System employees, retirees, alumni, and their family members, we pool our savings and lend to each other. When you become a member, you become an owner of Duke Credit Union. To become a member, simply maintain $25 in a Share Savings Account and make a one-time life membership payment of $5. more
Bayes Down Under: Presenting Your Research Overseas…and Finding the Funds to Do It!
Melanie Wilson’s research interests and the aims of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) World Meeting were a match made in the Outback—a combination easily romanticized on the surface, but fraught with practical financial peril as the expenses mount. Wilson, currently a fourth year doctoral student, develops statistical methods that simultaneously model genetic markers, which helps to overcome the limits that independence assumptions have imposed on genetic association studies. “At first the thought of being able to travel to Australia on a graduate student’s budget seemed unlikely,” Melanie recalls. At the same time, several faculty members in Duke’s Department of Statistical Science involved in the work of the ISBA were strongly encouraging their graduate students to apply to present at the meeting. more
Lunch, Listen, or Look: Engaging the Programs and Resources of the Franklin Center
It’s noon on a Wednesday…do you know where your friends are? If you fraternize with Francophiles or swap case studies with social psychologists, have you checked room 240 in that red brick building on the northwest corner of Erwin and Trent?