Organizations
- Bioterrorism and Public Health
- Law and Policy
- Middle East and Islam
- Technology
- Radiological Countermeasures
Bioterrorism and Public Health
SERCEB – Southeast Regional Center for Excellence in Bioterrorism
“The mission of SERCEB is to perform the basic and translational research to make drugs, vaccines and diagnostics to protect society from emerging infections and biothreats. Funded by the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, SERCEB investigators focus on select-agent infections and newly emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.”
UNC School of Public Health – Center for Public Health Preparedness
“The overall mission of NCCPHP is to improve the capacity of the public health workforce to prepare for and respond to terrorism and other emerging public health threats by: assessing the competency of the public health workforce in core public health skills and bioterrorism preparedness, facilitating training to meet the assessed needs, and carrying out applied research on emerging health issues.”
Research Triangle Partnership – Cluster Networks – Biological Agents and Infectious Diseases
“The Research Triangle Region's biological agents and infectious disease cluster comprises companies and support organizations that protect public and animal health from bioterrorism as well as pandemic disease outbreaks from natural causes. The region's universities and private labs undertake a wide array of related research in such areas as environmental protection, water supply and food sources, public health, biotechnology (including agricultural biotechnology), sensors and diagnostics devices for bioagent detection, and technology-aided delivery.”
Duke Center for Genome Ethics Law, and Policy
“The IGSP Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy was created to foster ethically responsible and socially beneficial uses of genome sciences, while addressing the complex ethical, legal, social, and policy impacts of the Genome Revolution.”
Duke Law School – Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security
“The Duke Law School Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security was established for the purpose of encouraging and sponsoring teaching, research and publications concerning national security law topics, as well as conducting conferences and seminars in the national security field. Additionally, as the Center's name implies, it seeks to provide a focus on national security decision-making from an ethical perspective.”
UNC Curriculum on War, Peace, and Defense
“The Curriculum brings together faculty and courses from many disciplines to provide undergraduates with a wide range of approaches to the fundamental issues of human conflict and national and global security and defense. The strength of the Curriculum is its broad, interdisciplinary perspective combined with its depth of focus on topics that span the range of human experience across time and national boundaries, from science and technology to ethics and public policy.”
Duke Law School - Guantanamo Defense Clinic
Duke Law School established the Guantanamo Defense Clinic in October 2005 through a special arrangement with the chief defense counsel for the detainees. “This clinic allows students to directly assist the Chief Defense Counsel for the Guantanamo detainees by preparing briefs and memos, and otherwise assisting with preparation for trials before the U. S. Military Commissions.”
Duke Law School – Program in Public Law
The Program in Public Law promotes better understanding of our nation’s public institutions, of the Constitutional framework in which they function, and of the principles and laws that apply to the work of public officials.
The Duke University Islamic Studies Center (DISC) seeks to advance interaction and understanding between citizens of American and Muslim cultures. DISC’s ultimate objective is to provide teaching and training to future world leaders for productive, positive interaction between Muslim and western individuals and institutions. DISC will focus on unique programs devised for Duke undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty in partnership with premier universities in Muslim majority countries.
Carolina Center for the Study of Middle East and Muslim Civilizations
The mission of the Carolina Center for the Study of Middle East and Muslim Civilizations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is to promote understanding of the Middle East through teaching, research, and community outreach and to explore and promote cross-regional approaches to
Middle Eastern studies.
Triangle Center for Middle East Studies
The Triangle Center for Middle East Studies is an educational consortium collaboratively administered by officers of centers at three campuses: Duke University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. The Center promotes understanding of Middle Eastern languages and cultures through teaching, research, and community outreach at the Center's three constituent universities, in the state of North Carolina, and in the Southeastern region.
The Center for Logistics and Digital Strategy develops “new intelligent technologies, operating in the Web-enabled information environment, allow[ing] virtual integration of the extended global enterprise in a way not feasible before the advent of the electronic age. In the Center's Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL) we are able to develop customized logistics solutions that meet an organization's distinct competitive needs. We are able to assess the benefits of these new technologies and offer a roadmap for implementation.”
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
RENCI is a collaborative venture of Duke University, NC State University, UNC Chapel Hill, and the state of North Carolina that combines the universities strengths with the social, business and research opportunities of the Research Triangle and the state of North Carolina. RENCI aims to bolster the economic vitality of North Carolina and to empower the business and research sectors to solve society’s most challenging problems.
Radiation Countermeasure Center of Research Excellence
The primary focus of the Radiation Countermeasures Centers of Research Excellence (RadCCORE) program is to support basic, translational and applied research leading to new medical countermeasures against radiological and nuclear exposures due to terrorist attacks. The underlying driving force is to bring “deliverables” to the national stockpile to mitigate the effects of radiation induced injury. We have structured this research consortium as a multidisciplinary research center to move candidate products through the regulatory process, conduct basic and translational research to identify new counter measures to evaluate countermeasures and underlying biology, and provide new or expanded education resources to improve expertise in radiobiology.