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From Concept to Campus Duke employees pitch in to create Duke Kunshan University in China

Editor’s Note LEANORA MINAI

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My Puppy Vinny

n 2000, when the Duke employee discount program launched, 20 businesses participated.

Today, more than 200 vendors – ranging from automotive services to entertainment venues – provide special savings to employees at any given time as part of Duke’s PERQS program.

“Every little bit of savings anywhere can help out,” said Kathy Dury, the senior program coordinator in Duke Human Resources who created the employee discount program.

In each issue of this publication, we select a discount to highlight and talk with an employee who used the deal. On page 14 of this issue, we culled ways to save on pet services and products.

I use one of those discounts at Camp Bow Wow, a dog boarding and day care off South Miami Boulevard in Durham. This is where Vincenzo “Vinny,” my 7-month-old silver Labrador, stays and plays when I’m out of town. Vinny has a good time with other camp buddies like Maddie and Chili, and I get a personalized report Vinny card – “Tails from Camp” when I pick him up. “I love Vinny!” Savannah, a camp counselor, wrote after the July Fourth holiday.

Dury said restaurants, movies and special events like Disney on Ice are among the most popular program discounts.

Juanita Wilson, human resources manager for the Division of Laboratory Animal Resources at Duke, said her department uses movie tickets through the discount program to help recognize employees through their “Shout Out” program.

“One of the things we think is very important is to be able to recognize employees and provide some means of reward to motivate employees – not only to do a good job but to use Duke’s guiding principles like teamwork,” said Wilson, who has worked at Duke for 23 years. “We always get a smile from whoever’s receiving the tickets.”

The discount program offers an opt-in email subscription, which has 13,000 employees, including me. We get an email every time a new discount or deal is announced.

Got a favorite discount? Drop me a note at leanora.minai@duke.edu. Learn more about the Duke employee discount program, including the email list, at hr.duke.edu/discounts.

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Cover: From Concept to Campus

Departments across Duke have helped shape the Duke Kunshan University campus in China.

Orientation for the first class of undergraduates and graduate students in global health and medical physics will begin Aug. 20 in Kunshan.

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Duke faculty are exploring many ways to share knowledge beyond the campus, from face-to-face conversations to newspapers and the global reach of social media.

Live Well, Lead Well

W hat’s your wellness mantra or fitness goal? In this new series, learn how Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, incorporates fitness into his day.

12  Kick-off Duke football season with free tickets 13  How to partner with police for campus safety 14  More bark for your buck with pet discounts 15  Putting waste to work by composting Cover Image: Dudley Willis, a manager of projects and engineering at Duke, has spent about 17 months so far in Kunshan, China, where he serves as a project manager for construction of the 750,000-square-foot Duke Kunshan University. The Chinese characters on the front cover say, “Kunshan Duke University.”

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Stay a step ahead of flu season – get vaccinated

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Nominate a colleague for Teamwork and Diversity awards

The Pratt School of Engineering administrative team received the Diversity Award in 2013. They are joined by President Richard H. Brodhead and Benjamin Reese, Jr., vice president for Institutional Equity.

If you know a departmental group who works well as a team or a coworker who includes underrepresented individuals in conversations, nominate them for a Duke Teamwork or Diversity award.

The deadline to submit a nomination is Sept. 12.

“Duke continuously enhances and achieves its standards of excellence because of the employees who represent both the University and Health System,” said Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration. “The Teamwork and Diversity awards give a glimpse of the hard work and positive interactions that take place within the university on a daily basis.”

Last year, members of the Pratt School of Engineering administrative team and the Duke Raleigh Hospital Diversity Leadership Team received Diversity awards. The Duke Library Service Center team and the Duke Health Technology Solutions team received Teamwork awards.

Nomination forms are at hr.duke.edu/awards under “Blue Ribbon Awards.”

Duke’s flu vaccination blitz kicks off in September when Duke Employee Occupational Health and Wellness (EOHW) begins administering free seasonal flu vaccine shots across the University and Health System.

Getting vaccinated early is the most important preventive measure, said Carol Epling, the director of Duke Employee Occupational Health and Wellness. More than 28,000 employees received the flu shot or qualified for an exemption in 2013. Annual vaccination against the flu is now a condition of employment at Duke University Health System and for many School of Medicine employees.

“Flu is a potentially deadly disease,” Epling said. “The best way to prevent it and prevent the unnecessary deaths or days of disability, missed work time, and use of sick time, is through getting vaccinated. That’s really why people should get vaccinated, so they don’t get sick and spread the flu to their family, their coworkers and patients.”

For the vaccine schedule this fall, visit duke.edu/flu/shots.

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Enroll in a professional development course

Run/Walk Club begins in August

Learn the fundamentals of business writing or how to build trust in the workplace through courses offered by Duke Learning and Organization Development (L&OD). A new catalog features courses through December that range from software training to honing leadership skills.

Five new courses will be offered this fall: Building Trust in the Workplace, Managing from the Middle, Managing Meetings Effectively and The Basics of Training and Designing Training.

“Employees should look to L&OD as a resource to identify their professional development needs,” said Keisha Williams, Duke’s director of Learning and Organization Development. “Our focus is not only on moving individuals forward in their learning, but also moving organizations forward in advancing their overall strategic vision and mission. The resources that they leave our sessions with will serve as their toolkit in their professional development journey.”

Employees can register for classes by accessing the Duke@Work self-service website [work.duke.edu] and clicking on “MyInfo,” then “MyCareer” and “MyLearning” to access the Learning Management System.

Duke employees and their dependents can join Duke’s Run/ Walk Club, which returns Aug. 18. The club is sponsored by LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program.

The 12-week program runs to Nov. 5 and meets from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. each Monday and Wednesday. Walkers and beginning runners meet at the East Campus wall on Broad Street; more advanced runners meet in front of Wallace Wade Stadium.

“The Run/Walk group has proven to be a life changing factor that has inspired me and provided me with a route to a healthier lifestyle, physical fitness, and with a greater ability in dealing with challenges,” said Yvette Jones, a human resources representative with Facilities Management who participated this spring.

Sign up at hr.duke.edu/runwalk.

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Duke named a “Great College to Work For” For the seventh consecutive year, Duke has been recognized as one of the “Great Colleges to Work For” in the country by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

This year’s list highlighted 92 institutions out of 278 participants. Results were determined by about 43,500 surveys completed by administrators, faculty and staff. Duke earned its highest remarks in nine workplace categories, the most Duke has received since 2009: Collaborative Governance, Compensation & Benefits, Confidence in Senior Leadership, Diversity, Facilities, Workspace & Security, Job Satisfaction, Respect & Appreciation, Tenure Clarity & Process and Work/Life Balance.

Duke was also included among 42 institutions in the “Honor Roll,” which highlights colleges and universities that earned the most recognition in their size categories.

“The recognition by the Great Colleges survey is both humbling and exciting,” said Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration. “The survey results reflect the efforts of thousands of faculty and staff across Duke who are committed to the mission of this great institution and strive on a daily basis to make Duke a wonderful place to work.”

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From Concept to Campus Dudley Willis, a manager of projects and engineering at Duke, has spent more than a year living in Kunshan, China, and serves as a project manager for Duke Kunshan University. He brought over baseballs and a glove to teach Chinese construction workers how to play.

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Willis and some others like him were contracted through fter Dudley Willis wakes up at 5:30 a.m. in his a third party with special employment arrangements in extended-stay hotel room in Suzhou, China, he China. makes a long-distance call to his wife. Early Willis is one of scores of Duke staff and faculty mornings are an ideal time for catching up members who’ve worked to bring the concept of with family or joining conference calls with Duke a new university to China through a partnership administrators, who are wrapping up the workday established with the city of Kunshan in 2007. nearly 8,000 miles away in Durham.

Four years ago, after keeping with a Chinese But for Willis, a manager of projects and tradition of lighting firecrackers to ward off engineering at Duke, the workday is just starting. bad spirits, construction workers broke A driver picks Willis up for a 50-minute ground on a campus that will eventually commute among honking cars and mopeds include six buildings. Construction is to a 200-acre construction site swarming continuing on the 750,000-square-foot with hundreds of construction workers. campus.

He dons a white hard hat with a Duke From setting up accounting insignia and starts crossing off checklist systems to reviewing legal agreements, items: select light fixtures, meet with Chinese developers and inspect departments across Duke have shaped buildings at Duke Kunshan University, the state-of-the-art campus in Kunshan, known as DKU. Jiangsu Province, China. Duke “I get to learn about a new culture University Libraries is organizing a and do something that’s important for DKU library with 3,000 print volumes.

The three shapes that comprise DKU’s new logo, above, Duke. It will be the biggest project I have Office of Information Technology represent the university’s founding partners – Duke, Wuhan ever done,” said Willis, who left home in employees have set up wiring and audioUniversity and the city of Kunshan. They form a mountain visual equipment to support globally Raleigh about 17 months ago to oversee symbolizing responsibility and seriousness in Chinese connected classrooms. Human Resources construction of the DKU campus. Due to culture. The second character in the Chinese word for has conducted job interviews, lined up the duration of his temporary assignment, Kunshan, “Shan,” means “mountain.”

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benefits, and arranged travel visas. The Office of the University Registrar has organized course schedules and helped register DKU students for fall classes. And Student Affairs has developed an extensive guide to housing, dining, health care, and recreation as part of orientation for incoming students. It also created a staffing model for student services.

Orientation for the first class of undergraduates and graduate students in global health and medical physics will begin Aug. 20 in Kunshan. This fall, about 25 Duke faculty members will be on-site teaching topics ranging from water resources to Greek civilization.

“We’ll look back at this in 10 years and say, ‘Wow, that was a terrific thing to have done. Look at all the thriving programs we have in China. Look at all the contacts we have. Look at the way China has developed to be an even more impressive nation and place that we can both contribute to and learn from,’ ”said Jim Roberts, executive vice provost for Finance and Administration. “That’s the hope and expectation.”

High bar for quality More than 40 Duke research services librarians will remotely assist DKU students with finding resources for projects and support classes and research. They will bridge a 12-hour time difference with email, instant messaging and Skype.

For many of these librarians, helping students across the globe isn’t new.

Jean Ferguson, one of Duke’s librarians for global health, has assisted faculty and students conducting international research in Kenya or Qatar through the Duke Global Health Institute. She is one of the Durham-based librarians taking part in the daily videoconferencing shift to help faculty and students in Kunshan.

“DKU is really going to broaden how many Duke graduate students and faculty members do research in China,” Ferguson said.

“They have a home base. It makes it easier.”

For Duke sociology and cultural anthropology librarian Linda Daniel, Kunshan will become home for a semester. She will serve as interim library director this fall, while DKU searches for a permanent director.

Daniel will help build a new print collection, finalize a DKU library web page and develop an electronic inter-library loan system between the Duke and DKU libraries.

“To be part of this international experience, the fact that it uses the skills that I’ve developed, I’m just so excited,” Daniel said. “I’ve never been to China, and there are a lot of unknowns, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me.”

In 2011 and 2012, Duke invited librarians from Fudan University, Renmin University, Wuhan University and others to the Durham campus. Visitors toured the Conservation Lab and Perkins study spaces and met with research services librarians. The visiting librarians were impressed with the one-on-one assistance for students, typically a service only available to faculty and Ph.D. students at Chinese universities.

The DKU library will initially include about 3,000 print volumes, in addition to more than 1 million electronic books and journals within Duke Libraries’ digital collection.

Erin Hammeke, left, a Duke Libraries special collections conservator, meets with Shilin Zhang, right, deputy director of the archives at Renmin University of China, in the Duke Libraries Conservation Lab in Durham.

“We’re among the best libraries in the United States in terms of our collections, our services, our staff, the way we interact with faculty and students,” said Bob Byrd, associate university librarian for collections and user services. “The exciting thing is to try to reproduce that in a different culture on a smaller scale.”

1-ton data center When it’s muddy after a rain, which happens frequently in Kunshan due to the subtropical climate, Rey Azares walks around the DKU campus in knee-high, black galoshes. He goes from building to building to check the progress of manholes and conduits for the campus’ high-speed fiber-optic network.

Rey Azares, Duke’s director of information technology for DKU, inspects the manholes and conduits made for DKU’s fiber-optic network.

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Visas to medical exams At 8 a.m. or 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, Kyle Cavanaugh joins an international conference call with Human Resources and other staff members who handle travel visas, benefits, recruitment and payroll.

For more than two years, they have waded through complexities that arise with starting a campus in a foreign country, such as bridging changing labor laws, setting up an on-site health care facility, and lining up Duke travelers’ medical exams.

“It makes for some short weekends and long hours, but we’re very fortunate to have a group of very dedicated people at Duke, DKU and with our two partners,” said Cavanaugh, Duke’s vice president for administration. “The collaboration among these people from different organizations coming together for a common goal has been impressive.”

Bob Johnson, right, Duke’s senior director of communications infrastructure and global strategies, and Duke IT team members carefully move the “Data Center in a Rack” into a truck parked in Durham. The technology, which will provide storage, backups and new servers to DKU, was shipped to Singapore.

Azares, Duke’s director of information technology for DKU, has spent most of the year working in China, leaving his family in Cary. He’s focused on every aspect of IT infrastructure, right down to card access locks and cable TV satellites.

“How many times can someone have an opportunity to be involved in establishing a university, no less a Western-style university in a foreign country?” Azares asked. “There are hundreds of U.S. universities and colleges who have a presence in China, but they do not have this kind of campus that’s being built.”

A team with the Office of Information Technology in Durham developed a unique approach for how to bring Internet access to DKU using a 1-ton piece of technology called a “Data Center in a Rack,” which was transported to Singapore.

“It’s a microcosm of everything we have here,” said Bob Johnson, Duke’s senior director of communications infrastructure and global strategies. He made the trip to Singapore to bring the piece of technology online. “It’s a platform that’s set up such that we can use the connectivity we put in place, quickly bring up new servers, new applications, have storage, have backups, have everything out there that we would need.”

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Duke’s Kyle Cavanaugh, left, vice president for administration, and Michael Schoenfeld, right, vice president for public affairs and government relations, discuss DKU during a visit to the DKU construction site.

Since the summer of 2013, Duke has helped 100 Durhambased employees obtain visas, sort through immigration paperwork and work permits and line up short-term travel to Kunshan. About 60 other individuals specifically hired to work at DKU will be in Kunshan by next spring.

Christy Michels, Duke’s senior manager of global administrative policies and procedures, has sorted through the employment complexities from Durham. In June, she traveled to China to serve as DKU’s temporary Human Resources director.

During her stay in Kunshan, she will conduct employment interviews and help find answers to questions ranging from top grocery stores to the best local parks to Chinese medical clinics Duke employees can visit.

“This is critically important to Duke,” Michels said of DKU. “This is just as important for us as it is for the Chinese government.

Kunshan, Jiangsu Province and all of the faculty and staff who are already going to DKU are playing a major part in making this a success. If I can be a small part of that, it’s a privilege.”

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The creation of DKU is an opportunity for Duke staff t o learn about a different higher ed system. Since DKU will be much smaller than Duke, at least i nitially, it can also serve as a platform for innovation...”

—N ora Bynum, vice provost, Office of DKU and China Initiatives From concept to campus, the Durham-based Office of DKU and China Initiatives has served as the central office for planning the DKU campus. The office’s six-member team is Duke’s primary liaison to partners in Wuhan and Kunshan and the coordinating hub of all DKU activities at Duke, from curriculum development and long-term planning to faculty recruitment, campus operations and program delivery.

“The creation of DKU is an opportunity for Duke staff to learn about a different higher ed system,” said Nora Bynum, the office’s vice provost who has traveled nearly a dozen times to Kunshan since 2011. “Since DKU will be much smaller than Duke, at least initially, it can also serve as a platform for innovation in things like teaching methods and length of courses that would be difficult to experiment with at Duke.”

Like an orchestra conductor When DKU project manager Dudley Willis first arrived at the Kunshan campus, he could visualize classrooms and offices beyond the blueprints in his hands. He had never been to China but quickly immersed himself in the culture, participating in round table dinners, sharing steamed fish, pickled jellyfish and preserved goose eggs with Chinese colleagues.

He brought a glove and baseballs to play catch with construction workers and traveled to areas in China such as Hangzhou (famous for green tea) and to the Huangshan mountains.

Willis compares his project manager role to an orchestra conductor who helps musicians read the same lines of music.

“As long as everyone plays their part and avoids hitting the sour notes, you end up making beautiful music,” he said. “Slowly, we are starting to understand one another better, and I think that, ultimately, we will end up with a fantastic project that’s a mix of both cultures.”

When Willis returns to North Carolina, he’ll come back to his role as a Duke Facilities Management project manager.

“I have to admit that it’s going to be interesting going back to the old routine after the daily excitement of watching over the construction of a new campus,” Willis said. “But I do really miss my wife and having a normal life.” ■

Duke Associate Professor Brian Hare, right, and his wife, Vanessa Woods, left, work at Duke.

Duke faculty bringing research, collaboration to Kunshan Duke evolutionary anthropology associate professor Brian Hare hopes to bring a niche research topic to Duke Kunshan University: great apes.

Researchers in China haven’t specifically studied these primates, he said.

When Hare saw the opportunity to create an undergraduate course for DKU, he jumped on it. This fall semester, Hare will teach “Cognitive Evolution: Apes, Kids, and What Makes Humans Smart and Successful.”

While teaching, Hare hopes to fuel partnerships, spur interest in primate research, and build awareness about the impacts of tropical forest degradation and the bushmeat trade on wild apes and human health.

“I’m going to meet all these people,” Hare said.

“You’re obviously going to form really good friendships that you wouldn’t have formed in other ways.

Friendships turn into research and collaborations and teaching opportunities.”

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n 1925, Duke University awarded nearly 200 degrees to its first graduating class. That number has grown steadily over the years with Duke awarding 5,100 degrees in May. But the figures don’t reflect the growing number of people who are experiencing a Duke education beyond the traditional classroom, whether in the local community or across the world in a massive open online course.

Today, Duke faculty members are exploring many ways to share knowledge beyond the physical campus, from face-to-face conversations to newspapers distributed across the country and even the global reach of social media. It’s part of the university’s mission of service to society to engage with broader audiences locally, nationally and globally.

“If we expect the public to understand and value universities, it is our responsibility to find ways to communicate the interest and excitement of the scholarship and pedagogy that goes on within the walls of academia,” Provost Sally Kornbluth said. “By making the communication and dissemination of these academic activities a core piece of Duke’s mission, the university has greatly increased the chances that the fruits of scholarship will be translated for societal good.”

Acting Locally For Laurent Dubois, his classroom extends into the Durham community through Forum for Scholars and Publics, a program geared toward advocating for the role of knowledge in society.

Last fall, Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History, took on the role of faculty director for the Duke-led program. Both on campus and in Durham, the Forum for Scholars and Publics hosts presentations, readings and panel

Laurent Dubois, far left, has helped organize events on campus and in Durham to connect Duke faculty and other experts with the local community. In April, the Forum for Scholars and Publics sponsored a conversation and concert about links between African and American music. Above photo by Jonathan Lee.

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discussions aimed at interacting with local community members on a personal level to generate idea exchanges between the university and those not directly tied to it.

Since last September, the group has sponsored nearly 30 events on campus and in Durham, from talks about politics and the 2014 World Cup to the meanings, causes, and treatments of addiction.

Sessions are streamed live and saved to YouTube so viewers can participate anywhere.

“As advocates in society, it’s important for universities to go beyond campus to help others understand what’s going on and how faculty contribute in important ways,” Dubois said.

“Communicating complex ideas to the public doesn’t mean we have to give up on the depth of what we do. It means we can make people feel like they can join the conversation, and when they do that, there are all sorts of experiences and knowledge to add.”

One of the benefits of the Forum for Scholars and Publics, Dubois said, is its ability to create relationships between Duke faculty, experts from outside the institution and the public. That kind of work complements important “traditional” avenues for academics to share expertise through classroom teaching or in academic journals. By hosting discussions and speaking with local Durham residents, Dubois said he hopes to make the work of Duke faculty more approachable and important to those outside campus.

“All universities have sets of values about research that are really important to maintain,” he said. “There is also a set of values universities embody by being present and public in order to strengthen scholarship and how people can understand it.”

National Influence Even as professors shift into the local community to share expertise, many are increasingly sharing knowledge across the country.

Each year, Duke faculty publish about 500 print op-eds and web commentaries in addition to about 450 appearances across television and radio. From regional newspapers to national television broadcasts on CNN, faculty members have the opportunity to share research like never before.

“Writing op-eds is a logical extension of the courses I teach,” said Stephen Kelly, visiting professor of the practice of public policy and Canadian studies at the Sanford School of Public Policy.

“They’re a vehicle where I can do my small part to educate my fellow citizens.”

In the past two years, Kelly has written more than a dozen op-eds that have run in a variety of print publications, from the “Des Moines Register” to the “Toronto Globe and Mail” to the “New York Times.” In each case, he’s opined on current topics that

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, national and global audiences fall within his areas of expertise like energy issues and border disputes.

Taking anywhere from a weekend to six months of research and writing to complete, Kelly said crafting opinion pieces amplifies his enjoyment of education. He can go from teaching 15 students in a classroom to reaching millions through a newspaper circulation.

Kelly’s work on op-eds also aids his teaching on campus. In 2012, he began work on a piece for the “New York Times” about Machias Seal Island, which is claimed by both the U.S. and Canada, and is similar to a territorial dispute between China and Japan over Stephen Kelly, who writes op-eds islands in the East China Sea. for a variety of “My research was meant to newspapers, keeps buttress my op-ed, but I learned ideas for his work on index cards. so much about the island and managed to get primary source documents, I decided to use it as a lesson for a class,” Kelly said.

“It’s a real issue in the world that needs to be solved, and often getting students to think about these things can provide ideas just as good as people working in the State Department.”

Global Reach with 140 Characters A similar connection between students and outside interests thrust Negar Mottahedeh into the global platform of social media.

As an early adopter of Twitter in 2008, Mottahedeh, an associate professor with Duke’s Program in Literature, found a strong connection to others from the online community where users share thoughts and updates in 140 characters or less. She watched students use the Internet and other chat channels on sites like Facebook and was inspired to make social media central to teaching and learning. She created a Twitter-based film festival that allowed students and anyone else from around the world to comment and share thoughts on movie clips and held a roundtable discussion on Twitter.

“If students tweeted from my classroom, they weren’t just participating online, but learning to teach others who may not be as fortunate to be here, on campus, learning in our classrooms,” Mottahedeh said.

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In the years since the 2009 film festival, Mottahedeh [@negaratduke on Twitter] has become more active on Twitter, where she’s able to share her academic expertise on topics like Iranian cinema or social media and revolution. She mixes personal and professional aspects online, sharing books she’s reading, notes from lectures and interacts directly with academics and others around the globe. This fall, she’ll teach a course about cultural and historical aspects of the “selfie” photo.

Negar Mottahedeh uses social media to extend the reach of her academic expertise. Photo by Bill Bamberger.

Mottahedeh, who has about 3,000 followers on Twitter, is among just over 70 Duke faculty active on Twitter, a growing trend across college campuses.

“Faculty are becoming interested in building their public presence using digital tools to extend their reach as a public intellectual, and some are also realizing the benefits of using social media tools to enhance the classroom experience,” said Cara Rousseau, manager of social media and digital strategy at Duke.

“Platforms like Twitter allow faculty to connect with alums they taught, peers at other institutions and the media.”

This summer, Mottahedeh compiled a series of tweets from 2009 about the Iranian election protests to share online. Her Twitter footprint includes insight and context for the event as well as interactions with people all over the world.

“I realized my feeds are a public place where I can connect with people for whom my research is most relevant,” she said. “I wouldn’t have thought of this in a million years, that I’d be in touch with thousands of people daily. It’s changed me as a teacher.” ■

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A series profiling leaders at Duke who balance work and life. Healthy habits boost mood and energy and combat diseases, which can also reduce healthcare costs for you and Duke as a whole. Through exercise or other behaviors, these leaders are role models.

Regimen:

Biggest fitness accomplishment:

and go into the evening, I find that if I don’t run very early in the morning, it

times and the New York City Marathon a couple of times. Those

doesn’t get done. I get up at about 4, and from 4 to 5, I try to clear out emails

were a lot of fun, but they’re milestones in this lifetime pursuit

from the night before, do any non-work related reading if I need to, and

of staying active.

I’ve run every day for over 35 years. Because my days start early in the morning

It’s been a blast to have run the Boston Marathon a couple of

try to get on the road sometime between 5 and 5:30. I’ve been doing that through all the seasons. I’ve tried to do a moderate distance run Monday through Friday and go a little bit longer on weekends. If I’m injured, I’ll use a stationary bike.

Advice:

It’s to experiment or try to find what works for you.

There’s not one single exercise. With demands on time,

Wellness mantra:

I’ve had a very strong family history of health issues, predominantly cancer. I believe there is a linkage to staying active and keeping yourself healthy and prolonging, not necessarily your life, but the quality of your life. I truly believe that by staying physically active, it’s preventative medicine.

Top health and wellness goals:

This year is about trying to explore, more deliberately, different modalities. I’m riding bikes a lot more than I have in the past five years. The other is to resume a regular swimming routine.

How a healthy lifestyle affects my work: My meeting schedule tomorrow goes from

7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and then picks back up again at 8 p.m. for a Duke Kunshan University call. That’s not out of the norm. I’m fortunate that I’ve been a pretty high-energy person throughout my life, but I believe that staying healthy and attempting to stay well helps to contribute to that capacity. Taking care of yourself is a really personal investment and has dividends for your family, the well-being of your circle and the people

especially those with family responsibilities and if you have a commute or you’re going to school, it becomes difficult to fit exercise into a busy schedule. But trying to keep it as high on your priority list as you can is something everybody needs to give some time to think about.

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Nominator Natalie Spring, Duke’s director of Prospect Research, Management and Analytics, nominated Kyle for the “LIVE WELL, LEAD WELL” series because of his caring attitude and commitment to Duke. “Kyle has what I consider to be the most stressful job at Duke,” Spring wrote. “He is engaged on a day-to-day practical level with almost every system that keeps the university running smoothly. While doing this, he maintains both an active fitness regimen, which is laudable, but more importantly, one of the most positive and grounded perspectives I’ve seen among leadership.” Got

a Duke leader in mind? Nominate him or her at bit.ly/leadwellduke

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New DukeCard system provides consistency for building access

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Thomas Falcon, an IT specialist for the DukeCard Office, works on the electronic access system at a building entry.

fter more than 20 years, the DukeCard system is getting a facelift.

Beginning this summer, the university is upgrading its electronic access system. The new system provides more consistency across the university for access to doors and empowers local “facility authorities” within campus departments to manage access to their own buildings.

“In the past, you had to work with the DukeCard office every time you wanted to change a door schedule. If you needed to enable or block access, it meant another call to the DukeCard office,” said Debbie DeYulia, director of customer and technology support.

Duke was one of the first universities to install a campus “onecard” system. Today the DukeCard system: • Produces more than 44,000 new and replacement ID cards per year for students, employees, contractors, summer program/conference attendees, and others.

More Information Some Duke community members may notice that their access to campus buildings may change during the transition to the new system.

Questions should be directed to the DukeCard office at dukecard@duke.edu or (919) 684-2273.

• Supports more than 1,200 swipe card-controlled and electronic locked doors, including administrative, academic, residence hall, athletic and public-access facilities.

• Processes $20.2 million in Dining Services meal transactions at several dozen locations each year, along with other sales at nearly 750 sites.

The new system was developed in alignment with the campus master plan for safety and security as well as governing principles and policies, including the university’s buildings and facilities access policy. DukeCard users will not need new cards and should see no change in how their cards work.

Individuals are automatically granted access to certain buildings when they join the Duke community. For example, a faculty member may be granted access to the buildings where their department resides, as well as the library. Those buildings are determined dynamically by how they are affiliated with Duke.

For Jason Remhoff, director of finance and administration for Duke TIP, the new system provides the right mix of control, flexibility and security.

“If we hire a new staff member, they’re immediately granted access to our building automatically,” Remhoff said. “For those who aren’t part of our staff but still part of the Duke community, such as Duke postal or housekeeping, granting access takes seconds on the new system. I’ve found it to be very user-friendly.”

The new system also provides more structure for changes in access and temporary access management.

“People work at Duke a long time, and offices move. Transfers typically provided additive access, and there was no regular review, so access in many cases was far broader than needed,” said Leigh Goller, director of Internal Audits.

In future phases of the project, Duke will overhaul its system for financial transactions and event management.

The DukeCard office is working with departments to phase in the new system. The transition is scheduled to be completed by early 2015. ■

By Cara Bonnett

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‘Kickoff ’ Duke Football Season with Free Tickets

Employee Kickoff Celebration returns Aug. 30

The Duke Blue Devils football team begins its new season Aug. 30 against Elon University. Employees receive free tickets as part of the annual Employee Kickoff Celebration.

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oming off its most successful season in nearly 20 years, the Duke football team is preparing to open the 2014 season Aug. 30 to a packed crowd at Wallace Wade Stadium.

Faculty, staff and their families can cheer the Blue Devils on to victory for free as part of this year’s Employee Kickoff Celebration.

The annual event takes place during Duke’s opening game against Elon University.

Kickoff for the game is 6 p.m., but the pre-game festivities, including music, inflatable games, face art and a catered meal, start three hours prior to kickoff at Krzyzewskiville outside Card Gymnasium.

Starting Aug. 4, employees can reserve up to four free tickets to the game. Last year, Duke faculty and staff claimed about 8,450 tickets and helped fill Wallace Wade Stadium with just over 30,100 fans. That game ended in a 38-31 win over Troy University, one of 10 victories for Duke in 2013.

“I heard everyone talking about Employee Kickoff and how much fun they had in the past, so it was a good reason to get out, relax and spend time with my kids,” said Kelan Beacham, manager of Student Health Insurance for Student Affairs who last year attended the Employee Kickoff for the first time. “It’s nice hanging out with coworkers and seeing people I used to work with.”

In 2013, the Blue Devils went 10-4 overall and finished 6-2 in conference play, winning the ACC Coastal Division. Over the

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course of last season, the Blue Devils’ high-flying offense averaged 39 points per game at home, just one point less than the 40 they averaged at home in 2012.

As part of the game day festivities, fans can cheer on the Blue Devils as the team walks through “Blue Devil Alley” on its way into Wallace Wade Stadium before the game. The Employee Kickoff, sponsored by Duke Athletics and Human Resources.

“Each year, we look forward to the Kickoff Celebration as a way to bring our community together and show our Duke spirit,” said Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration. “Last year was a big step for Blue Devil football, and this year’s game offers a great time to celebrate the accomplishments of the team and all the valuable work our faculty and staff do for Duke.” ■

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Get Free Tickets Duke faculty and staff can request up to four free tickets to the Aug. 30 home game against Elon University. Tickets can be reserved at goduke.com/ employee or by calling (919) 681-8738. A DukeCard ID is required to pick up tickets on game day.

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Partnering with Duke Police to Enhance Campus Safety

The Duke University Police Department hosts a variety of classes and programs, including the Citizens Police Academy.

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or Steve Misuraca, who earned an undergraduate degree and MBA from Duke, it’s always been easy finding a strong connection to the institution. But last year, he found a new way to appreciate Duke even more.

Misuraca was among 18 employees in the Duke University Police Department’s inaugural Citizens’ Police Academy, a 10-week, hands-on crime prevention program for Duke community members.

Misuraca learned about firearm safety, crime scene investigation and how to react to emergency situations.

Most importantly, the academy provided a new point of view for Misuraca, who has been associated with Duke for more than a decade as a student, alumni and employee.

“The academy provided me with new relationships with colleagues and Duke Police I never had before and taught me how complex the ecosystem of our campus can be at Duke,” said Misuraca, director of the Master of Management Studies program at the Fuqua School of Business.

In recent years, Duke Police has created a variety of programs and offerings like the Citizens’ Police Academy as outreach with the campus community. In addition to serving Duke students, officers also provide safety and crime prevention services for nearly 36,000 faculty and staff across Duke’s campuses.

New offerings include a biannual “Tips n’ Treats,” where officers host meet-and-greet sessions on East, Central and West campus, as well as Q&A sessions like “Coffee with a Cop,” part of a nationwide program to increase engagement. Duke Police officers also provide free electronic engraving services to help deter personal property theft and partner with Facilities Management to trim brush across campus for greater visibility.

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“Campus police are here to support students, faculty and staff and work towards Duke’s mission,” said John Dailey, chief of Duke Police. “It’s pivotal for us to build strong relationships with everyone in the community to understand their needs and to work together to enhance a safe environment.”

A year ago, Cathy Carter wanted to take on a role to help do that.

As assistant director with the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences Office of Facilities, Carter contacted Duke Police to help establish “building watches” within 21 buildings that house Trinity College departments. Each building now has representatives who use email lists and host in-person meetings to share safety tips and information.

Carter said she wants to empower colleagues to report suspicious persons, protect personal property and make Duke a less desirable place for criminals.

“It makes us feel like we’re serving each other and saying that we care about our campus environment,” Carter said. “When we all come to work, we want everyone to feel as safe as they possibly can.” ■

By Bryan Roth

Partner with Duke Police The Duke University Police Department offers a variety of crime prevention tips, from online videos to in-person engagements and free engraving of personal property.

Learn more at duke.edu/police/outreach.

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Get More Bark PERQS for Your Buck with Pet Discounts employee discounts

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uke employees with furry, feathered or scaly family members can receive 10 percent off pet supplies, vet visits, daycare and more through PERQS, the employee discount program.

Have a pet sitter visit your home

Eight years ago in a Duke parking lot, Kate Walker fed pieces of a pretzel from her lunch box to a hungry stray kitten living in bushes near Jack Coombs Field.

Walker, assistant to the dean at the Sanford School of Public Policy, said the yellow tabby she later named Pretzel is now an integral part of her family. When she travels out of town, she leaves Pretzel in the care of Very Important Pets Professional Pet Sitting [vippetsitting.com].

Duke employees receive 10 percent off their first reservation. Walker has used the pet sitting service for about 20 years. A pet sitter visits her home and plays with Pretzel, gives him food and water and monitors his health.

“They come in and take care of everything,” Walker said. “It’s not just that they pay attention to your pet and attend to them. They also keep watch over your house.”

Send your pup to camp

Two-year-old Alice, a pit bull, loves to play with other dogs and Alvin Buckley, left, an employee at Camp Bow Wow on South Miami Boulevard in Durham. Duke revenue manager Barbara Carter, right, drops Alice off at Camp Bow Wow three days a week for day care.

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When Barbara Carter drops off her 2-year-old pit bull, Alice, in the morning at Camp Bow Wow, she expects her dog to be tired but happy when she picks her up after work.

The camp for dogs off South Miami Boulevard in Durham is a few miles from Carter’s office at Duke’s Patient Revenue Management Organization. Carter drops Alice off three days a week and saves 10 percent on boarding, full-day daycare visits, baths and nail trims.

“It’s provided me some flexibility for my schedule,” said Carter, revenue manager for the Division of Cardiology. “Not only does she enjoy other dogs, but she knows how to play with them now.”

Learn more about Camp Bow Wow at campbowwow.com/us/nc/durham.

Take your pet to the vet Melanie Leggett, a psychiatry and behavioral sciences associate professor at Duke, was searching for a dermatology specialist for her 9-year-old boxer mix, Starbuck. To help with Starbuck’s bald spots, she found Southpoint Animal Hospital [southpointpets.com]. It became her go-to vet for Starbuck and her 4-year-old poodle mix, Molly.

Duke employees receive 10 percent off veterinary services during each visit.

“With boarding, it makes a big difference,” Leggett said of the discount. “There have been times where we’ve gone on a long trip and had to board them for a week or two weeks. It’s been significant savings.” n Compiled by April Dudash

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Putting Waste to Work Sarah P. Duke Gardens creates own compost for gardens

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arah P. Duke Gardens has been doing some home “cooking” this summer but not necessarily with ingredients found in a kitchen.

Standing as tall as 5 feet, three piles of compost near the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden have slow roasted at internal temperatures as high as about 150 degrees, spurred by summer sun. Garden trimmings, straw, eggshells and more compose the piles, each at different stages of decay, the heat eliminating weeds, seeds, harmful insects and disease pathogens.

As the compost rests within contained, concrete areas for three months, Duke Gardens employees locate spots throughout the Gardens’ 55 acres to use the organic material. Using compost provides plants in Duke Gardens with more nutrients for growth, strengthens soil structure and increases soil’s water retention.

“I’ve always done it on a small scale at home, but it’s also nice to be sustainable and follow best practices at work,” said Jason Holmes, curator for the Doris Duke Center Gardens. He developed and manages the composting program. “We have the equipment, people and biomass to do it, so we set it up and rely on Mother Nature to do the rest.”

Holmes estimates that last year, Duke Gardens created as much as 30 yards of compost, which was used in the Discovery Garden, Culberson Asiatic Arboretum and H.L. Blomquist Garden of Native Plants.

The amount of compost created on-site not only provided fresh, organic compost for Gardens’ staff, but it also cut $3,000 to

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Sarah P. Duke Gardens collects compostable material and stacks it in this area to begin the degrading process.

Lindsey Fleetwood, a horticulturist at Duke Gardens, uses a front-loader tractor to shift compost and encourage breakdown of materials.

Jason Holmes, curator for the Doris Duke Center Gardens, spreads compost over plants at the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden.

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$5,000 that would’ve been spent on bringing in compost from an outside business.

For his work developing and maintaining the program, Holmes received a campus Sustainability Award in April for outstanding leadership in waste reduction.

He was nominated by Bobby Mottern, director of horticulture at Duke Gardens, who noted that the mantra of “reduce, reuse, recycle” has become woven throughout many daily actions at Sarah P. Duke Gardens because of Holmes’ work.

“Having this compost program points us in the direction of sustainability which everybody is trying to strive for,” Mottern said. “When you buy products off the shelf, there may be other additives blended into them so you’re not sure what may exactly be in the compost. With this, it’s clean, reliable and we know where it came from start to end.”

In addition to the large compost piles at the Charlotte Brody Discovery Garden, Gardens volunteers also suggested Holmes start vermicomposting, the process of creating compost using worms. As many as 2,000 red wiggler worms in a 2-by-4 foot box chew through newspaper, lettuce, cardboard and other roughage to create high-nutrient compost for planters and raised beds throughout Duke Gardens.

“You’re talking about all the material that normally would’ve been taken to some bin and you’d never see it again,” Holmes said. “With our composting, we see what goes in and what comes out. It’s like making an investment in the Gardens.” n

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dialogue@Duke “How will Duke Kunshan University (DKU) in China impact the University’s mission in the years ahead?”

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A key to Duke’s success in China is to have strong partnerships with colleagues and institutions working in similar areas. China is investing significant resources in research and has outstanding researchers and research institutions. We look forward to partnering with them and building upon the research agenda already underway by DGHI (Duke Global Health Institute) faculty.”

Michael Merson Director, Duke Global Health Institute 8 years at Duke One of Duke Kunshan University’s academic programs this fall is the Master of Science in Global Health.

DGHI also is helping to set up the Global Health Research Center on the DKU campus.

DKU will be an experience up to a new level. It opens up so many potentials for the library. That’s the exciting or enriching part when you go global. Our DKU experience will help us, for example, to better understand and serve our international students here on campus, and international students here on campus will help us better serve our students at DKU.” Luo Zhou Chinese Studies Librarian, Duke University Libraries 7 years at Duke Zhou is a member of the DKU Library Planning Group, which is comprised of Duke librarians who have met since 2010 to discuss DKU library construction, book acquisition and staffing.

The China campus is going to connect and extend the philosophy that we’ve had for a very long time of working across cultures. We see a need to be and see and feel and experience the social, economic, political, cultural and historical aspects of a country or region. It’s very exciting that this is going to be a degree program where, over time, most of the degree and the education is going to take place in another region.”

Russ Morgan Associate Dean, Daytime MBA and MMS programs, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business 4 years at Duke Fuqua is offering a one-year Master of Management Studies program in which students spend time at both DKU and Duke.

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