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WORKING@DUKE NEWS YOU CAN USE DECEMBER 2014/JANUARY 2015
Duke’s New Provost
Boiling Academics Down to a Science
Editor’s Note LEANORA MINAI
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Fitting in Fitness
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y work schedule.” “Time.” “I’m a commuter.” These are some answers Duke employees gave when asked, “what’s the greatest barrier” to participating in wellness programs? The responses are part of a case study of employer-sponsored wellness programs at Duke by a team of participants in the latest class of the Duke Leadership Academy, a leadership development program for university staff and faculty. Members of the team assessed Duke’s employee wellness programs, why they’re valuable, and how to increase participation. “Our takeaway was that LIVE FOR LIFE has a very robust program with a wide array of offerings for people,” said Chip Kyles, a leadership academy team member and director of Workers’ Compensation at Duke. “They’re great programs and easy to access if you know about them.” Among ideas the team proposed to enhance awareness included creating a “manager toolkit” to enable managers to better promote awareness of and participation in wellness programs. The team’s ideas have sparked follow-up conversations among senior leadership, said Julie Joyner, manager of LIVE FOR LIFE at Duke, which oversees Duke’s employee wellness initiatives. “What I really appreciated was getting objective feedback on ways we could be more effective,” she said. “People still seem to not know our programs. They know LIVE FOR LIFE but couldn’t really cite specific programs.” Inside this issue, we’ve put an emphasis on wellness. On pages 8 and 9, you’ll find stories of employees who’ve used LIVE FOR LIFE for lifechanging decisions, including Claudia LeBarron, who quit smoking. And on page 11, learn how to save on memberships at 33 fitness centers. If you can’t commit to a Duke program, there may be creative times to fit wellness into your day. The Duke Leadership Academy team’s case study included data from the “American Time Use Survey” by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. On an average day, watching TV was the leisure activity that occupied the most time – 2.8 hours, accounting for more than half of leisure time. That statistic got me thinking about my habits. I changed my exercise routine to morning, before work, because I kept finding excuses in the evening. What’s your routine? With the New Year upon us, now is a great time to plan for making your wellness a priority in 2015.
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Sally Kornbluth leads Duke’s nine schools and six institutes, as well as admissions, financial aid, libraries and all other academic aspects of the university, from global strategies to Nasher Museum of Art programs.
Commitment to Health
For many Duke employees, running a race or losing weight is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to health using skills and techniques offered by LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program.
Boost Your Creativity Physical acts as simple as a walk have the ability to boost creativity by 60 percent over staying sedentary.
12 Confidential counseling for personal concerns 13 Teamwork and Diversity Award winners 14 Take a little holiday ‘me’ time with Duke discounts 15 Get a grant to make your workplace environmentally friendly Cover Image: Sally Kornbluth, Duke’s eleventh provost, meets with members of her lab team in the Levine Science Research Center.
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Year-end reminders As 2014 comes to an end, here are some helpful reminders about Duke benefits:
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Prepare for winter weather The Southeast may see belowaverage temperatures and above-average precipitation this winter, but a repeat of last year’s extreme cold, snowy conditions is unlikely, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Still, staff and faculty are encouraged to review Duke’s severe weather policy to prepare for potential ice and snow this season and to ensure roles and responsibilities are understood during severe weather. Employees are assigned by supervisors to one of three categories: essential, reserve or delayed. Essential service employees are East Campus, 2014 required to report to or remain at work; reserve service will be assigned at the time of severe weather; and delayed service employees will not report to or remain at work in severe weather. “It’s important for Duke faculty and staff to be familiar with Duke’s severe weather policy and think in advance about what they’d do in a weather emergency,” said Kyle Cavanaugh, Duke’s vice president for administration. “It’s never too early to prepare for potentially severe winter storms.” More information about Duke’s severe weather policy, including a snow/ice priority-clearing map, is at emergency.duke.edu. In the event of severe weather, employees should monitor the website or call (919) 684-INFO for updates.
Staff and faculty enrolled in 2014 health or dependent care reimbursement accounts must submit reimbursement claims for expenses incurred Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2014, by April 15, 2015. Employees enrolled in the 2014 health care reimbursement account can carry over up to $500 of unused funds into their 2015 plan. After April 15, 2015, any unused money over $500 from a 2014 health care reimbursement account will be forfeited. Payroll deductions for medical, dental and vision benefits in 2015 begin in December 2014. Payroll deductions for 2015 health and dependent care reimbursement accounts begin in January 2015. A year-end reminder about maximum contributions to Duke’s 403(b) retirement plan will be mailed to employees’ homes by early December. Review personal information through Duke@Work [hr.duke.edu/selfservice] to ensure accuracy. This will ensure that all tax-related documents are sent to the correct location.
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It’s not too late for a flu shot
In remembrance of King and Franklin
After several months of Duke’s flu vaccination campaign, nearly 29,000 Duke University and Health System employees have received the free flu vaccine. Duke Employee Occupational Health and Wellness (EOHW) will continue to offer flu vaccinations at its clinic locations through the end of this year’s flu season, which is around March 1. Flu activity most commonly peaks in the U.S. between December and February. The flu killed just over 100 North Carolina residents last year. “If you have waited, get vaccinated,” said Dr. Carol Epling, EOHW director. “We try to make it as easy and efficient as possible.” For more information, visit duke.edu/flu/shots.
The Rev. Dr. William Barber II, the president of the state NAACP and graduate of the Duke Divinity School, will deliver the keynote address for Duke’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration at 3 p.m. Jan. 18, in Duke Chapel. Free parking in the Bryan Center Parking Garage will be available. This year’s theme, “Dignity Through Dissent: Demanding Civil Rights in a Modern World,” evokes the memory of Duke historian John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) as the university prepares to observe the 100th anniversary of his birth. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and continually updated. More than three million copies have been sold. In 1995, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. John Hope Franklin Ben Reese, vice president of the Office for Institutional Equity at Duke, said he hopes university staff, faculty and students will consider making an impact on their communities with service on MLK Day. “Every year, we work hard to promulgate that notion that in addition to it being a holiday, it really is a day that we hope people will be engaged in activities that exemplify the legacy of Dr. King as well as Dr. John Hope Franklin,” Reese said. Learn more about this year’s commemoration, including an updated listing of events, at mlk.duke.edu.
A Duke employee receives a free flu shot during a recent flu vaccination campaign. working.duke.edu
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Duke’s New Provost
Boiling Academics Down to a Science Sally Kornbluth goes from Duke lab leader to provost in 20 years Duke’s first female provost, Sally Kornbluth, watches the Teamwork and Diversity Award presentations during a recognition luncheon in October at the Doris Duke Center in Sarah P. Duke Gardens.
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Twenty years later, hen Sally Kornbluth is Duke’s new Kornbluth chief academic officer. arrived As provost, she leads at Duke Duke’s nine schools and with her husband in 1994, six institutes, as well as the molecular cancer admissions, financial aid, biology duo was tasked libraries and all other with ordering supplies and academic aspects of the finding graduate students for university, from global their new labs in the Levine Science Research Center. strategies for Duke Kunshan While construction University in China to workers put finishing touches Nasher Museum of Art on the lab space, Kornbluth, programs. who was studying biological Kornbluth is the signals within cells, especially university’s eleventh provost relating to cancer, prepared and first woman to serve in to fill the empty room with the role. She receives about Duke Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology’s Sally Kornbluth, Anthony Means, Katharine Winkler, and Katherine Swenson, left to right, pose in Kornbluth’s Duke lab in equipment, reagents, people 300 emails daily, and her 2000. They discovered the first evidence of an enzyme, Pin1, that acts as an “emergency calendar is booked with and experiments. During handbrake” on cell division. back-to-back meetings, lunch those first days at Duke, she appointments and speaking engagements. She meets with faculty and her husband, Danny Lew, filled out grant after grant, pursuing and students on topics that range from presentations about the funding for their research. university’s strategic plan to online education committee discussions “I think the best way to survive those early years when you’re about encouraging innovation. She continues to teach graduate just starting is to try not to think too much about the possibility that things won’t work,” Kornbluth said. “We were just very focused and post-doctoral students in her own laboratory within the Duke School of Medicine, where the team studies cell cycle progression on getting the labs up and running and getting people in the labs and cell death. and getting students to want to come to our labs.” 4
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a wide range of activities in very different areas, back-to-back, of people doing all kinds of interesting things, and I’ll say this: I am never bored. Sometimes a little tired by the end of a long day, but never bored.
What are some current topics of personal interest?
Sally Kornbluth talks with Sarah Kleinstein, right, a Duke graduate student in molecular genetics and microbiology. Kornbluth delivered a lecture, “What Makes Me a Scientist,” at Love Auditorium in October.
I’m interested in how we enable the faculty’s research and bring it to the next level, what sort of supportive things the institution can do to enable research in all areas. I’m interested in how you deepen the scholarly activities of the undergraduates. We already have 50 percent of undergraduates who engage in research. I’d like to see even more, but also just in terms of their coursework and extracurriculars, how things can be linked so they can have a really deep experience rather than a broad checklist kind of experience. I’m interested in how we address the issue of graduate training in an era where many of our Ph.D. students won’t become academics, so what we do to prepare them for alternative careers.
“I’m very, very interested in all the different things that go on in the university,” said Kornbluth, who turns 54 on Dec. 3. “If you inherently like interacting with smart, interesting people and you find people interesting, there are endless opportunities for that every day here. The days are pretty much endlessly engaging. The one thing that I noted from my predecessor, Peter Lange, is that Peter always looked like he was having a great time, and I can see why. This is a really, really interesting, fun job.” Kornbluth sat down with Working@Duke to talk about her first few months on the job, future plans for the university, and how her 20 years at Duke prepared her to serve as provost.
How have your roles at Duke (faculty member to cell biologist to medical school administrator) influenced you? I’m very appreciative that there are wide ranges of opinions on almost every issue, and I try to listen to the scope of different people’s opinions and input when I think about making decisions. I think my experience as a medical school administrator for almost eight years gave me the ability to solve complicated problems with diverse groups of people. Even in my own lab, it’s a complex management issue because I’ve got all different sorts of people working on projects and I have to try to figure out how to get them all coordinated in moving science forward.
What’s a typical day for you? Let me just open my calendar randomly to today. There are a lot of meetings, obviously, and talking to a lot of different people and keeping up with emails, but I’ll give you an example. (Kornbluth lists 12 meetings and commitments that day, from a Duke Kunshan University discussion to a budget working group committee meeting to a conversation with President Richard Brodhead.) It’s just
Sally Kornbluth, who helps students with their research projects, meets with her lab team in the Levine Science Research Center. The graduate students and post-doctoral researchers study cell cycle progression and cell death.
What challenges face higher education? One obvious thing is continuing to articulate to the public the value of a university education, particularly the value of the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Obviously, how we incorporate online educational tools into our ongoing educational efforts. I think there are a lot of social problems of consequence that are being pressed across campuses right now. For instance, sexual assault – how we handle this, how we think about this, what the best practices and policies are around such issues. Affordability and access is critical: how are we going to maintain the ability to make sure that any student who really is qualified to come to Duke has a shot at coming to Duke? >> continued on page 6
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What role will online learning play in Duke’s academic enterprise?
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I feel very loyal to Duke b ecause it gave a really great environment to grow an academic career.’ ”
heading, in terms of large buckets. Next year, we’ll be in a details-filling mode; what we need to put in those buckets, what specific programs, what specific plans, et cetera. I hope to make the plan modular enough that if we can’t do everything, we can do some significant things. I want to see what bubbles up from the faculty, students and staff before committing to one theme or another because I’m not hard-and-fast fixed on anything I like, and I want to hear through the process creative, new things that other folks on campus come up with.
I think there are a lot of different possibilities. One is to think about putting together clusters of courses that convey Duke’s unique interdisciplinary flavor, sort of an online Duke brand that not only helps in societal ways to educate the world but also attracts people — Sally Kornbluth to Duke who are interested in those areas. The Duke Provost other is how we add online content to enrich our campus activities, whether it’s the flipped What’s challenging classroom or additional preparatory material or auxiliary material that might help students in learning. For the classes, there are about being provost so far? unique possibilities with online education partnerships with, for You have to balance the interest of a lot of different groups, instance, institutions globally where we might offer similar courses particularly with respect to resource allocation, and you have to and have discussions between students across the world. Our faculty make these decisions serially, and it’s not like you get to the end is very creative, and I’m hoping to find ways to maximize the of the year and you consider everything. As they come along, you opportunity for outlets for that creativity in online education. have to make decisions about whether you want to support them, invest in them, and that can be difficult. Sometimes you come What’s your vision for developing across difficult faculty problems or student problems, and I think you really have to maintain a cool head and be objective about a strategic plan for the university? them. I find the engagement and support of everyone around here I view this year as a pre-strategic planning year. We first have great, so I don’t deal with problems alone, in a vacuum. There are to define the broad themes that we’re interested in developing really strong people in a lot of positions, and my role is to interact as a part of the plan, and I want to get input from faculty, staff, with those folks and sometimes provide guidance to them and get students and administrators, so I can get a feeling for where we’re guidance from them.
Best advice you’ve ever received? ‘You are what you are.’ I think you have to work within the constraints of your own personality and leadership style. It’s impossible to change how you fundamentally deal with people simply because you think it would be a good way to manage people or a good way to lead. You have to assess your own strengths and weaknesses and play to your strengths and do the best to mitigate your weaknesses; or better yet, build a strong team of people that have complementary strengths and can help to compensate for your weaknesses. n Interview by April Dudash
Sally Kornbluth presents at a scientific symposium, “Duke Cancer Institute: Contemporary Discoveries and Future Promise,” in 2012. Her presentation is titled, “Inhibition of Apoptosis and Resistance to Chemotherapy.”
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Who is
Sally Kornbluth? FAMILY
Married to Danny Lew, James B. Duke Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke Sally and Danny have two children - son Alex and daughter Joey, who are undergraduates at Yale University
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Duke faculty member since 1994 Research interests: cell cycle progression and cell death Mentored 25 graduate students through their doctoral degrees
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1982 graduate of Williams College/Bachelor of Arts degree in political science
1984 graduate of Cambridge University, England/Bachelor of Science in genetics 1989 graduate of The Rockefeller University/Ph.D. in molecular oncology Postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Diego
OUTSIDE OF DUKE Durham resident 20 years
Loves to walk her dog, Buddy Hikes in Duke Forest
CAREER PATH As vice dean for basic science in the School of Medicine from 2006 to 2014, Kornbluth oversaw the school’s biomedical graduate programs, managed the school’s laboratory space and worked with department chairs. Brainstorming and problem solving with a small group of colleagues she first met in the molecular cancer biology department helped develop her path to becoming provost. “I feel very loyal to Duke because it gave a really great environment to grow an academic career,” Kornbluth said. working.duke.edu
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very year, thousands of faculty and staff make lifechanging decisions with the help of personalized coaching from LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program. From losing weight and quitting tobacco to learning how to start an exercise routine, Duke employees are offered free ways to reach individualized health and fitness goals. “We realize that every employee has his or her own routine and goals, which is why we have a dozen services and programs that offer a variety of wellness options,” said Julie Joyner, manager for LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program. “The things we provide are often the start of a journey toward better health.” For many Duke community members, running a race or losing weight is just the beginning of a lifelong commitment to health, using skills and techniques taught by LIVE FOR LIFE staff.
Get Moving Challenge Returns Are you ready to get moving? Duke employees can register online for the Get Moving Challenge, which runs Jan. 12 to March 22. Participants compete individually or form teams of five to 11 employees. The competition focuses on who moves the most steps, exercises the most minutes and/or loses the most weight. The first 2,500 participants competing in the steps category are eligible for a free pedometer. All Duke employees have access to an individualized online tracking tool to see their progress throughout the competition. Registration is open through Feb. 2. For more information and to sign up, visit hr.duke.edu/ getmoving.
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Creating lifelong com Born to Run Until the summer of 2003, the longest Jill Chaskes Foster had ever run was one block. “I was one of those people who would see a runner and wouldn’t get it,” said Foster, staff assistant in the Department of Biology. “Why would you subject yourself to that on purpose?” But with a yearning to get more active and prodding from husband, Matt, Foster joined Duke’s Run/Walk Club in 2003. It allowed her to ease into an exercise routine and offered strong social support. By the time she completed her first session of the 16week program (now 12 weeks), Foster was able to run for six consecutive minutes and completed a Duke Recreation 5K race in 38 minutes. Jill Chaskes When she got pregnant after the Foster first Run/Walk session, she walked with the group until close to her delivery date. Between responsibilities as a new mom and a second child three years later, Foster didn’t return to the Run/ Walk Club until 2008. But she didn’t give up exercise; she used handouts and other Run/ Claudia Walk tips. LeBarron “Life may have gotten in the way, but I learned to love running because of my initial experience,” Foster said. “I love how easy it is that when I have free time, I can walk right out my door and go.” Today, lessons from the Run/Walk Club continue to influence her health and wellness goals. She tries to run on her own two or three times a week and aims to participate in two 5K races a year. “It’s given me a new kind of life skill I can keep going back to,” Foster said. “I will always have the confidence that I can get on track without too much effort.”
A Final Goodbye to Tobacco Growing up in a household where both parents smoked, Claudia LeBarron’s fate was predetermined. “At the age of 16, it was kind of like, ‘here’s a pack of cigarettes.’ Back then, it was very acceptable,” she said. That was 1965, and she smoked five or six Pall Mall Ultralight Menthol cigarettes a day for nearly 50 years, briefly quitting cold turkey during three pregnancies. It never stuck. Then in March 2014, LeBarron decided to make a commitment.
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mmitments to health Instead of lighting a cigarette when stressed, LeBarron ate raw carrots or apples. She also called LIVE FOR LIFE to sign up for the free tobacco cessation program, which provides personalized counseling sessions and discounted medication like nicotine patches to help Duke employees quit. “I thought, ‘you’re a nurse and setting the example for patients,’ ” said LeBarron, 65, a clinical care specialist at DukeWELL, a free care management program for individuals with Duke Basic/Duke Select or Carelink-Duke Medical Home insurance. “I can’t lecture them if I’m doing things they shouldn’t be doing.” After six months, LeBarron was done with cigarettes and saving about $80 a month between not buying cigarettes and paying a monthly surcharge for Duke employees who use tobacco. That money now pays for trips to the Outer Banks and other waterfront locales in North Carolina. Ebony LeBarron is using her experiences to help patients. Bryant “I can relate to people who think they need cigarettes and help them quit easier,” she said. “I believe it’s about our mindset. We’re better than a cigarette.”
The Right Price for Weight Loss It started with a free, 20-minute check-up. Ebony Bryant heard about a free roving LIVE FOR LIFE program called HealthCheck that was stopping at the School of Law in the winter of 2012. During that visit, Duke nurses took a variety of base-level health measurements. They told her she had high blood pressure, and she was classified as obese, weighing about 210 pounds at 5-feet-4-inches tall. On the spot, Bryant signed up for Pathways to Change, a free program to get her health issues in check. “Free is a big thing for me,” said Bryant, student services coordinator at the School of Law. “I was already paying for daycare for two children, so I was surprised I could have nutrition and fitness consultations, regular meetings with a nurse and I didn’t have to pay for anything.” The Pathways program helped Bryant set monthly goals for weight loss and exercise and long-lasting changes have taken hold in her daily activities. She’s now better at portion control with meals and is more active than ever. “They gave me a pedometer and I started walking four miles, five times a week,” she said. “The big thing now is the elevator. I rarely take it and always try to take the stairs, even if it’s six flights.” Bryant finished Pathways in 2013 and continues to use LIVE FOR LIFE programs to spur changes in her life. She joined the Run/Walk Club and also Steps to Health, which connects employees with a health coach three times a year. “So far, I’ve lost 57 pounds, but I’m trying to keep going,” Bryant said. “I attribute a lot of that success to my first consultation, but I’ve learned accountability to keep me on track. It’s a personal journey.” n
Free LIVE FOR LIFE programs HealthCheck Spend 20 minutes with a LIVE FOR LIFE nurse and discover positive health habits and develop strategies for those you want to change. hr.duke.edu/healthcheck
Pathways to Change A targeted 12-month program for individuals at risk for health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, a body mass index of 30 or more, or who have pre-diabetic conditions. hr.duke.edu/pathways
Run/Walk Club A social exercise group that meets seasonally at East and West campuses and Duke Regional and Duke Raleigh hospitals. All skill levels welcome. hr.duke.edu/runwalk
Tobacco Cessation This 12-month coaching program includes a one-on-one consultation to develop a plan to quit, then follow-up calls at one, three, six months and one year. Among other resources, participants get discounted medications. hr.duke.edu/tobaccofree
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Boost Your Creativity with Movement, Brainstorm Sessions Chris Hildreth, center, with camera, talks with Duke men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski during a photo shoot for the team.
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hen Chris Hildreth feels creatively stuck, he gets moving. For years, running has not only helped to loosen his muscles, but his creativity as well. “You let your mind go and begin to think beyond the actual act of running,” said Hildreth, director of Duke Photography who takes seven-mile runs through Duke Forest and Eno River State Park. “My mind will begin to delve into “Fast and Furious” theme poster from 2013. the complexity of a photo shoot and by the time I’m done, I’ve figured out most exercise stimulating blood flow to the of what I have to do or at least what my brain, so more oxygen is available, which next step should be.” helps our brain work better.” A Stanford University study released in For faculty and staff across Duke, getting April found that physical acts as simple as a up and out to formulate the next great idea walk have the ability to boost creativity by can be as simple as stepping outside. 60 percent over staying sedentary. Walking – The trail along the outside edge of regardless of environment – produced twice East Campus forms a loop of about 1.6 as many creative responses by the study’s miles, which takes about 25 minutes to participants. walk. On West Campus, visitors to Sarah “There has been lots of scientific P. Duke Gardens can traverse plants and interest in the link between cognition flowers on five miles of trails. A walk from and exercise,” said Esther Granville, the Davison Quad, outside the Sociologymanager of health coaching with LIVE Psychology Building, through West Campus FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness to Towerview Road is about a quarter-mile. program. “The connection comes from
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Boosting creativity can also be as easy as setting aside time to let a brain wander. Hildreth and the Duke Photography staff find that clearly defined brainstorming sessions lead to successful ideas for tough photo shoots. Each year, Hildreth partners with Duke Athletics colleagues for a special photo session with the men’s basketball team to highlight themes. Last year, a “Fast and Furious” theme highlighted the up-tempo speed of Duke’s players. “We’ll pick a time and sit down as a group for a no holds-barred conversation to discuss angles of view, camera platforms, types of lenses and lighting,” Hildreth said. Together, the Duke Photography staff came up with an idea to have all 14 players run toward the camera as a group and individually, capturing motions mid-stride. The resulting image showed the team edited together, sprinting toward the viewer with motion blurs and background lines to emphasize speed. “Setting aside time to brainstorm is as important as scouting locations and other pre-shoot work,” Hildreth said. n By Bryan Roth
Learn about Stanford’s study on how exercise improves creativity at bit.ly/creativitystudy
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Duke program provides employee discounts to 33 local gyms
ive years ago, Stacie Daye was suffering from a herniated disc and nerve damage in her back after injuring herself while lifting, then aggravated it during a slip and fall. For a time, she lost feeling below her pelvis and lost mobility in her right foot. Today, she’s back in the gym, participating in a Zumba class every week at her local YMCA. After being unable to exercise regularly for years, she started losing weight and getting fit with help from the Duke Fitness Club, a network of gyms throughout the Triangle that offers membership discounts to faculty and staff. “Going to the Y and working out has given me energy to do more things with my family,” said Daye, a radiologic technologist with Duke Radiology. “After all I went through, I think, ‘is there really a price you can put on your health?’ ” Daye signed up for a family membership with the Triangle YMCA, which waives enrollment fees for Duke employees who join through LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program. While Daye will take Zumba classes or swim, her daughters may join in “boot camp” fitness classes or use free weights. Her husband plays basketball and lifts weights. The Triangle Y is one of 33 member facilities of the Duke Fitness Club program, which partners with businesses from Raleigh to as far north as Roxboro. Sign-up opportunities can include individual and family plans, and discounts vary by location. A full list of facilities and a map can be found online at hr.duke.edu/fitness. Nearly 3,000 Duke staff, faculty and family members are enrolled in the Duke Fitness Club, which is open to all Duke employees and their spouses, same-sex partners and dependents. “We know Duke employees live all over the area and have all sorts of different schedules, which is why we want to make exercise options easy,” said Julie Joyner, manager of LIVE FOR LIFE. “The Fitness Club makes it affordable to work toward wellness goals.” n By Bryan Roth
Save at the Gym
Duke’s Wilson Recreation Center is among 33 facilities where employees can join for discounted rates as part of LIVE FOR LIFE’s Duke Fitness Club. Wilson features a pool, weight room, cardio equipment, climbing wall and more.
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Joining a gym through the Duke Fitness Club requires at least a three-month commitment, but after that period, participation is available on a month-to-month basis. Facilities include Wilson and Brodie gyms on campus, as well as the recently added Levin Jewish Community Center of Durham, among others. Sign-up for local exercise facilities can be done online or with the help of LIVE FOR LIFE staff. Membership dues are arranged through payroll deduction. Visit hr.duke.edu/fitness or call (919) 684-3136 and select option 1.
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Get Help with Personal Concerns Confidential counseling at no charge for employees and immediate family
Andy Silberman, director of Duke’s Personal Assistance Service, sees employees in his office for a variety of concerns, ranging from grief and depression to relationship issues.
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or some staff and faculty, the holidays can bring a slew of emotions, including sadness from losing a loved one. Duke’s Personal Assistance Service, known as PAS, typically sees an increase in visits right after the holidays. “The holidays are often a time of joy and anticipation,” said Andy Silberman, PAS director. “But they’re chock full of activities, additional demands and expectations. For some, the holidays can be a time of stress and disappointment.” Throughout the year, PAS provides voluntary, short-term, confidential counseling and referrals to help Duke University and Duke University Health System employees resolve a broad range of personal, family and work problems. In addition, PAS offers consultation to Duke managers whose work groups are experiencing grief, loss and other issues. If employees or their immediate family members are struggling with a problem or stress that hasn’t been resolved using their usual coping strategies, PAS is a safe place to find help, Silberman said. Employees and their eligible family members can receive up to eight short-term counseling sessions per concern at no charge. For example, a staff member can visit eight times for a spouse or partner issue and then another eight times about a different concern, such as a loss in the family. PAS also makes
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referrals for additional services based on an individual’s needs and health insurance plan. PAS, which recently recognized its 30-year anniversary, met with 1,176 faculty and staff for individual services last year. Some of the most commonly discussed issues were stress, depression and grief, relationship issues, work difficulties, and concerns about a loved one’s substance use, Silberman said. In addition to one-on-one visits, PAS also provided help to more than 150 supervisors and departments dealing with workplace concerns. “These problems can and do interfere with one’s concentration, productivity, behavior and work performance,” Silberman said. “Nobody is a machine. But like machines, we too need maintenance and tune-ups to stay healthy and to keep running effectively.” PAS has also seen a slight increase in visits for relationship issues, which seems to stem from demands of dual caretaking roles. The average age of the Duke workforce is 44, meaning employees may be taking care of children and aging parents, a potential cause for stress at home and at work, Silberman said. “We’re all licensed clinicians, trained to listen, to understand, to provide perspective …from an objective point of view,” he said. “I have absolutely been privileged to share in the experience of a very powerful transformation for people in life-changing ways.” n
By the Numbers Personal Assistance Service
1,176 Faculty and Staff receiving individual services
63% Clients reporting improved productivity after using PAS
78% Clients reporting feeling better overall after using PAS
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92 Organizational consultations for critical incidents, workplace grief and more Source: Personal Assistance Service Annual Report, 2014
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ach year, Duke recognizes university and health system employees for efforts to promote teamwork and diversity, two of Duke’s hallmark guiding principles. This fall, the Duke Annual Fund Alumni Giving Program and Duke Universal Influenza Vaccination Work Group received Teamwork Awards for their collaborative workplace environments. Amanda Thomas, a clinical nurse educator at Duke Regional Hospital, and Scooter Freeney, Duke’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) human resources director, received Diversity Awards. Duke President Richard H. Brodhead honored the award recipients during a luncheon at Sarah P. Duke Gardens in October. “The university is so big and there are so many different parts, that the best informed person in the world can’t begin to know all of the people who work here and all the things they do,” Brodhead said. “Each of these people did something no one asked them to do. And if they hadn’t done it, no one would have known. It’s just they made the world better. They made a better outcome.”
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“The team not only has successfully doubled the DUHS healthcare worker flu vaccination rate but the work group has also become a role model for effective collaboration and successful policy implementation within a large, complex organization,” Duke University Hospital President Kevin Sowers said in his nomination.
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Scooter Freeney, the human resources director for OIT, received a Diversity Award for starting a minority internship program in OIT, developing a cultural awareness program and recruiting minorities for job openings. “Scooter has been a leader in identifying and implementing programs to address this challenge for OIT, and he has partnered extensively throughout all of Duke, and beyond, in the process,” Tracy Futhey, Duke’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer, said in her nomination.
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Duke Annual Fund’s Alumni Giving Program received a Teamwork Award. The team helped raise about $160 million in new commitments last fiscal year from alumni. This benefits the Duke Forward campaign goal to raise $3.25 billion by June 2017. Money raised goes toward all areas of Duke, from financial aid awards to Duke Chapel repairs. “Their drive for excellence, open communication and trust has fostered collaboration that has had a tremendous impact on all of our departments exceeding their goals,” Ann Gleason, senior assistant vice president for Individual Giving, said in her nomination.
Duke Office of Information Technology’s Scooter Freeney, center, receives the 2014 Diversity Award. With him are Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, left, and Benjamin Reese, vice president for institutional equity.
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Duke Annual Fund’s Alumni Giving Program staff received a 2014 Teamwork Award. Left to right: Randy Garcia, Jennifer Cameron, President Richard H. Brodhead, Suzanne MacKinnon, Amy Crum, Stacy Davis and Matt Cloues.
Health System The group behind Duke’s annual flu vaccination campaign, Duke’s Universal Influenza Vaccination Work Group, also received a Teamwork Award.
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Amanda Thomas, the clinical nurse educator at Duke Regional Hospital, also received a Diversity Award. She helped start Project Liberia – Ebola, raising money to send medical supplies and education materials to Liberia. “Amanda Thomas is a leader with promoting the value of diversity in our department, hospital and country,” Tracy Stell, assistant director of staff education and development at Duke Regional Hospital, said in the nomination. n
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Take a Little Holiday ‘Me’ Time From massages to Broadway, save with Duke employee discounts
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hether it’s enjoying date night, getting a new hairstyle or relaxing on a massage table, pamper yourself and others this holiday season while saving money with Duke employee discounts.
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Kim Turk, lead massage therapist at Duke Integrative Medicine, has witnessed firsthand how the healing properties of massage can change lives. Turk was told in 1986 after a car accident that she would never walk well again. After attending massage therapy, she walked down stairs and stopped taking medication. She now works with clients who have sports-related injuries, have been in accidents, or have neck and shoulder pain. “They can tell us their story, what they’ve been through, how their body feels, and we can decide together what we’re going to work on,” Turk said. Duke employees receive 20 percent off all massage and bodywork services at Duke Integrative Medicine [dukeintegrativemedicine.org]. Services include integrative massage, which incorporates Swedish, deep tissue and other techniques, and trigger point therapy massage that relieves muscle spasms.
Maintain that Mane 140 Salon and Dry Bar in Durham offers Duke employees 20 percent off a single hair or wax service on Wednesdays and Sundays. On other days, the discount is 10 percent. [140salon.com] Project coordinator Scarlett Oakley with the Duke Fuqua School of Business Career Management Center said she and her family go to 140 Salon and Dry Bar for haircuts, hair color and to buy hair products. “I never hesitate sending someone there,” Oakley said. The “Newsies” musical is coming to the Durham Performing Arts Center June 2 to 7. Duke employees receive 10 percent off tickets.
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The Duke employee discount program includes more than 10 spa and massage locations. This includes Massage Heights at Southpoint [massageheights. com/southpoint], which gives employees $5 off the price of a onehour massage. For a discounted $84.99, Duke employees receive a 90-minute massage, free aromatherapy and choice of hot stones, foot scrub or face massage. At The Retreat at Brightleaf [theretreatdurham.com], employees receive 10 percent off all massage and aesthetic services.
A Night at the Theater Duke staff assistant Debbie Gressel’s first show at the Durham Performing Arts Center was The Lion King. “The music, the costumes, and the actors and actresses did an amazing job,” said Gressel, who works in the Duke Division of Plastic, Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery. “I was in awe the entire night.” Since then, Gressel has saved on tickets to productions of Jersey Boys and Dirty Dancing using the employee discount at DPAC in downtown Durham. During the 2014-15 season, employees can save an average of 10 percent on tickets to Annie, Motown: The Musical, Kinky Boots and other shows. [bit.ly/dpacdiscount]
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She applied for funding as part aculty and staff of the Nicholas School of the who want to make their offices and Environment’s staff sustainability departments more committee. sustainable can get some “With kitchens on each green to go “green.” floor of the building and singleWith help from Duke’s stream waste management Green Grant Fund, an annual stations designed to reduce the fund made available to support amount of non-compostable a range of projects that benefit waste, we want to encourage the Duke and Durham everyone to use real dishes communities, Sustainable instead of disposable options,” Duke is providing money to said Sell, a staff specialist in the employees who want to purchase Emily Derbyshire, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, browses Nicholas School’s marketing through materials in a special freezer that minimizes energy use. sustainable office supplies like and communications office. energy-efficient desk lamps. “We want sustainability to be $5,000 was earmarked for offices and Faculty and researchers can also apply for second nature so people don’t have to another $5,000 for labs. financial backing to update equipment in think about it.” Since 2011, 138 workplaces and labs labs to cut energy or water use. Additionally, greening labs across Duke have received certification by Sustainable The goal is to provide assistance for has become a priority. On a per square foot Duke. About 30 have also applied for Duke community members to earn a financial assistance through the Green Grant basis, research labs can require five times Green Workplace or Lab Certification, more energy to operate than classrooms Fund after it became available in 2013. which recognizes efforts to reduce the and office spaces, This fall, Donna Sell received $600 to environmental footprint of a workspace. said Randy Smith, outfit kitchens in the new LEED Platinum “Even purchasing a few small departmental certified Environment Hall with reusable environmentally-friendly items for manager in the dishes, utensils, drying racks and more. the workplace can wind up making a Department difference for lowering carbon footprints of Biology. across campus,” said Casey Roe, outreach Smith helped coordinator with Sustainable Duke. “The create a Green Lab Certification checklist more reusable or high-efficiency items we that recommends tactics for energy and water To obtain a Green Workplace or can use daily, the better.” conservation, as well as chemical storage and Lab Certification, employees must To begin the application for funding, a use. He said Green Grant funding could help attend a sustainability workshop cover part of the cost for things like energyrepresentative from an office or department hosted by Sustainable Duke. Each free, three-hour program provides efficient freezers, glove boxes or incubators. should write sustainability@duke.edu with insight into sustainability resources at a brief description of the project idea. “If it doesn’t take extra effort or cost to Duke, tips to lower a carbon footprint Green Grant applications for the individual to do something a little better, at work and a guide to earning workplaces and labs typically range between why not do it?” Smith said. “We can reduce certification. For a schedule and to $50 and $500, but employees can request costs and do our part for better stewardship sign up, visit sustainability.duke.edu/ any amount to budget for sustainable items. of the planet.” n workshop. In this year’s pool of Green Grant funding, By Bryan Roth
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dialogue@Duke “ What are your New Year’s resolutions?”
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I don’t believe in resolutions. I believe in goal-setting. I think the term resolution is final, that I have to do this, whereas goals are more of a process, a framework of the way you’re thinking about things. In the next year, I would like to travel to a foreign country, I would like to complete another half-marathon, and I want to spend more time with the people I care about.” Maralis Mercado Program coordinator, Duke Student Wellness Center 5 years at Duke
I just defended my dissertation. I’m done with my doctoral work (doctor of education degree through Northeastern University), and that’s a relief. I looked at Duke University students dealing with post-parental loss. I studied how Duke students deal with the death of a parent. It was therapeutic because I have two sick parents whom I just moved to Durham. I’m now their primary caretaker. I firmly believe that I’m right where I need to be, doing exactly what I need to be doing. My resolution is to live life and believe that I’m right where I need to be.” David Pittman Director of Student Life, University Center Activities and Events 6 years at Duke
y professional goal is to continue working with Duke and becoming M more proficient in grant writing. I am applying to the RAA (Duke’s Research Administration Academy) to help with my grant writing goals. A personal career goal is to one day own my own nonprofit and outreach center. The vision of this center is to bridge the educational gap between minority and majority students in schools and also encompass a small business consulting firm to assist aspiring entrepreneurs.” LaMonda Sykes Assistant to the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Duke Department of Evolutionary Anthropology 7 months at Duke
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