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As part of the University Scholars Program seminar Mohamed Noor presents on his experiences teaching a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).

Irene Ai-Yin Liu, Ph.D. graduated from Duke University’s Department of Biology in May 2014. Irene’s dissertation, “Molecular Causes and Consequences of Sperm Competition on Agelaius Blackbirds” required frequent fieldwork trips to the Caribbean and exotic Pennsylvania, among other North American d…

"The Outsized Impact of Unreasonable People" -Hersh Desai "Is Pain Reasonable?" -Nikki Pelot "Unreasonable Rivers: How Extreme Events and Expert Blind Spots Shape Water Planning" -Meg Perry "Anthropological Surrealism: How Stuff Made Reason Unreasonable" -Brian Smithson

"Believing and Unbelieving in Traditional Historical Narratives" - Zach Heater "Magical Analogical Thinking: Metaphors and Illness Among the Nahuatl" -Ana Ugarte "(Un)Reasonable Convictions: Christianity, Creationism, and Evolution" -Alex Treyz

"A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism" -Julia Mikhailova "A Scientific Update to Darwinism" - Irene Liu "Avian (T)reason: The Bizarre Story of Brood Parasitism" -Eleanor Caves "The Vaccine Scare and its Influence on Decisions" -Dave Lacambacal

"Creating Flabby Bot and Other Thinking Machines" -Ben Schwab and Tamra Nebabu "Legal Reasoning: The When and How" -Hunter Bruton and Daniel Rice "A Science of Good & Evil? On The Possibility of Ethical Knowledge" - Marcus Gibson

In Tana Villafaña’s research as a graduate student at Duke, she has been working closely with scientists from the National Gallery of Art and with conservators at the North Carolina Museum of Art to develop a technique for taking non-destructive 3D images from paintings. This work, in conjunction …

Professor Schanzer is an expert on national security and international terrorism, who will be leading a follow up discussion on former General David Petraeus’ lecture.

Keynote Address by James Reynolds, Prof. of Environmental Science and Biology The Future of Dryland Development in the Americas: “Whereof What’s Past is Prologue”