The Duke Office of the Provost provides support for Duke faculty activities at Duke Kunshan.
Formerly awarded in the form of Education and Research Innovations in China (ERIC) grants, funding is currently available directly through the Provost’s Office for research projects, workshops, conferences, and other initiatives. Inquiries can be directed to dkurelations@duke.edu.
A list of projects funded between 2011-2018 to support Duke faculty activities at DKU and throughout China can be found below.
Renovating Chinese Industry by AI Mind: An International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence
Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
East Asian Pop Culture in the Era of China's Rise
Leo Ching, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Global Philosophies, Global Universities
Owen Flanagan, Philosophy
Building Capacity for Surveillance and Detection of Novel Respiratory Viruses at DKU
Greg Gray, MD, Duke School of Medicine and Duke Global Health Institute
Belt and Road Biodiversity Mapping Workshop: Convening key partners to quantify the environmental
impacts of Chinese infrastructure development in Asia and Africa
Stuart Pimm, Nicholas School of the Environment, Environmental Science and Policy Division
Workshop on the Great Silk Road Economic Belt
Erika Weinthal, Nicholas School of the Environment, Environmental Science and Policy Division
Characterizing the Uncertainty on Future Electricity Demand in China: Understanding the Behavior, Attitudes and Beliefs of Residential Users
Dalia Patino-Echeverri, Nicholas School of the Environment
Information Literacy and News Visiting Professor at DKU Grant Request
Ken Rogerson, Sanford School of Public Policy
mHealth conference @ DKU: Partnerships to Promote NCD Research on Mobile and Digital Technology in China (Oct 13-14, 2017)
Janet Prvu Bettger, Duke School of Medicine and Duke Global Health Institute
Assessment of Use and Perception of Electronic Cigarettes in Mainland China: Involving Duke Kunshan University Undergraduates in Research Addressing the World’s Largest Tobacco Use Epidemic
Yantao Zuo, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Environmental Humanities in Asia Conference at DKU (May 21-24, 2017)
Prasenjit Duara, Global Asia Initiative and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Meteorites and the Solar System Symposium at DKU (September 22-24, 2017)
Nicholas Gessler, Information Science + Studies
Building Capacity for Surveillance and Detection of Novel Respiratory Viruses at DKU
Greg Gray, MD, Duke School of Medicine and Duke Global Health Institute
Translational Pain Research Symposium at DKU (June 21-23, 2017)
Ru-Rong Ji, Duke School of Medicine
Global Cinema and Coloniality Conference at DKU (June 8-9, 2017)
Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Repeating the Line: The Use of Patterns in Chinese Art, Print Culture, and Contemporary Architecture
Merrill Shatzman, Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Crime, Media and Policy Visiting Professor Grant
Ken Rogerson, Public Policy
Geographic Information System Training for Research and Public Health
Paul Lantos, MD, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine
Water - Energy Workshop III
Avner Vengosh, Nicholas School of the Environment, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, and Marc Deshusses, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Gaming, Conflict and Asia: Workshop and Gameplay at DKU (June 1-2, 2016)
Leo Ching, Shai Ginsburg and Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Critical Thinking Skills at DKU: Workshop, Study Group, and Best Practices (September 23-24, 2016)
Ken Rogerson, Sanford School of Public Policy
Scientific Workshop on Ozone Research
Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, Global and Environmental Health
Entrepreneurial Fundamentals Workshop (December 10-11, 2016)
Jesko von Windheim, Environmental Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Preparing for a Changing Climate and Altered Landscape: A Workshop for Uniting Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to Biodiversity Science
Anne Yoder, Biology
Chinese Digital Humanities Workshop (June 15-16, 2017)
Carlos Rojas, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Interfaces: the human experience of engineering
Thomas DeFrantz, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Independent Studies on Decision-making: An Undergraduate Research Program
Brian Hare, Evolutionary Anthropology
Governance Issues in Contemporary China Conference (April 21, 2017)
William Keech, Political Science
Empire and Language: Translingual Inter-Asia Workshop (March 12, 2015)
Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Water-Energy Workshop II (October 14-15, 2015)
Avner Vengosh, Nicholas School of the Environment, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, and Marc Deshusses, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chinese Science Fiction and the Post-Human (September 18, 2015)
Carlos Rojas, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Sidney Gamble Photograph Exhibition in China (Supplemental Funding for Exhibit Extension)
Guo-Juin Hong, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Luo Zhou, Duke University Libraries
Workshop to Evaluate the Feasibility in Establishing Research Centers on Physical Sciences and Engineering at DKU
Jie Liu, Chemistry
Workshop on Designing a Professional Graduate Program on Environmental Management
Erika Weinthal, Nicholas School of the Environment
Courses in Computational Evolutionary Analyses
Allen Rodrigo, Biology
Developing Medical Physics Graduate Program at DKU
Fang-Fang Yin, Medical Physics Graduate Program
Writing in DKU
Denise Comer, The Thompson Writing Program
Obesity & Type 2 Diabetes in Chinese and American Children: Ethnic, Social, and Biological Determinants, Clinical Management, and Implications for Public Health Systems and Policy
Michael Freemark, Cell Biology, Pediatrics-Endocrinology
Sidney Gamble Photograph Exhibition in China
Guo-Juin Hong, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Luo Zhou, Duke University Libraries
Innovations in Long Term Care: A US-Chinese Partnership for Education and Research
Eleanor McConnell, Geriatrics and Duke Aging Center
Neuroeconomics in China
Craig Roberts, Neuroscience
The Biological Root of Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Education Program on Evolutionary Anthropology
Brian Hare, Evolutionary Anthropology
Bringing NESCent to China: Developing a Synthesis Center Model to Facilitate Collaboration across Space and Time
Allen Rodrigo, Biology
Community Health Observatory in Kunshan (CHOK): A Proposal for Establishing Demographic Health Surveillance Site in China
Shenglan Tang, Duke Global Health Institute
Building Bridges in Arts/Humanities: Theater Studies Research Group
Claire Conceison, Theater Studies