Chapter 4 - Academic Goals and Strategies to Build Distinction
The Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy: The creation of this institute in the last strategic planning period resulted from Duke's recognition of the need to build bridges among researchers, clinicians, policy experts, and scholars based in virtually all of Duke's schools to ensure that the next generation is broadly trained in the range of experimental, quantitative and social disciplines needed to successfully address the challenges represented by the Genome Revolution. Since its formal launch in 2003, the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) has become a multi- and interdisciplinary network of centers, research programs, and educational activities that together form an integrated, campus-wide approach to advancing aspects of the Genome Revolution and to addressing its implications for science, health, and society.
In the next planning period, we will put the IGSP on a solid budgetary foundation. As we move forward, the IGSP will expand opportunities for both classroom and inquiry-based learning for undergraduates, redouble efforts in computational and quantitative science and engineering, and seek meaningful partnerships with schools and departments that have not yet been fully engaged. In addition, the institute will define interdisciplinary projects that will engage partners across campus, develop integrated, interdisciplinary space to facilitate efforts that bridge both science and policy, and expand outreach to the public and around the globe. Through scientific discoveries and engaging in the policy decisions that surround genomic science, the IGSP will play a major role in advancing Duke's commitment to place knowledge in the service of society.
The Social Science Research Institute: Founded in 2003, the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) catalyzes pioneering research and methods across the social and behavioral sciences. The SSRI provides an integrated set of research facilities focused on the collection, assessment, analysis, and transmission of data at the frontiers of social and behavioral sciences research. The SSRI supports initiatives that foster the development of interdisciplinary teams devoted to creating and disseminating new knowledge within areas that promote excellence among Duke scholars, are relevant to policy, and hold intellectual importance.
Three years into its development, the SSRI is poised to achieve excellence and distinctiveness through an ambitious series of interrelated efforts that connect research - both basic and applied - and teaching. Noteworthy among these are the SSRI Faculty Fellows' Program, its series of peer-reviewed conferences, and the SSRI's proposed interdisciplinary initiative in social science statistics, designed to provide graduate and undergraduate students with quantitative skills needed to work at the forefront of social and behavioral research. Understanding how to create, evaluate, and transmit new knowledge is essential if our students are to become leaders in academia, industry, science, and management, and the SSRI programs support and train scholars at all levels so that they have the skill sets to assume these roles.
The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute: The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) was founded in 1999 to be an interdisciplinary center dedicated to supporting the humanities. The institute encourages serious humanistic inquiry across a wide range of disciplines throughout the university and fosters an awareness of the centrality of the humanities to a broad, historically grounded university education. Through an array of innovative programs, the FHI seeks to encourage conversations, partnerships, and collaborations that stimulate humanistic research, writing, and teaching.
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