[Durham INC] Summer School for Lifelong Learners

[Anthony Waraksa]

Please call this program to the attention of your individual HOA's.


Thanks

Anthony Waraksa


SUMMER SYMPOSIA at THE FOREST:  Give and Learn
                                                                                            
 
 We are very pleased to
offer this program for the firstSummer Series at The Forest at Duke in
support of DURO (Duke University
Retiree Outreach) and the work they do at Lakewood Elementary School. 


We are
fortunate to live in an area where people who are doing very interesting work
are willing to give us a few hours of their time to tell us about it. Please
keep in mind that any program featuring active professionals is subject to
change, so there may be an unexpected substitution.
 
This series is an
outgrowth of an invited speakers program for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University that has been
going on since 2006. Although the program is open to everyone, most of the
audience will be retirees from Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh. 
We are pleased to be able
to offer this Summer Series to the public and to contribute the class fee to
Duke University Retiree Outreach, one of the non-profits that The Forest at
Duke supports. 
PROGRAM TOPICS
 
June 11:The
Department of Homeland Security is working to make security checks at
airports and elsewhere both less intrusive and more effective. John Greeson is Assistant Director for
Homeland Security and is based at RDU. He’ll tell us about how the changes that
are being implemented are going to affect us and our security.

June 25:   Professor
Phil Cook of Duke is an expert
on gun violence. We read most
frequently about disasters such as the recent one in New Hope, CT,
but Dr Cook will broaden our view of this topic. His insights will help us form
educated opinions on the efficacy of different approaches to this problem.

July 9:   Dr.
Linda Gray is a Radiologist at Duke and one of her passions is extracting the most information possible out of the
various imaging technologies physicians have in their arsenal. She’ll show us some spectacular x-ray and NMR
derived images. Extracting these images from the CAT scan data takes some
intense computer power and we’ll learn how many desk top computers on campus
work around the clock calculating tasks to make these detailed images emerge. 

July 23:  Today we are going to be visited by a Secret Service Agent working out of
Raleigh. He will be bringing some of the devices that are available over the
Internet that are capable of scanning our credit cards and stealing our
identity with an ease we would not expect.  We’re going to leave this
lecture armed with knowledge about protecting ourselves from these bad guys.
We’ll learn why we should leave our debit cards at home and use only credit
cards. If the information on them is pirated, losses are limited. There’s a lot
more to learn, don’t miss this lecture.


July 30:  We
live in an area where the basis of our medical care can correctly be called
“Western Medicine”. In many countries the predominant medical practice is
different, and today Andrew Prescott is going to help us understand the overlap and the differences in what he calls Evolutionary Medicine and Vitalistic
Medicine, but we’d characterize it as Eastern versus Western.
  Used correctly, the approaches can be complimentary. At the end of
this lecture we should have more information to help us choose what will work
best for us.

August 6: We might just listen and
enjoy birds singing in our neighborhoods. Study the songs a little more,
especially if trained in biology, psychology and neurobiology, as Professor Steven Nowicki is, and we’ll
hear more than music. There is complex communication going on, and
territorial warnings too. It’s all related to their survival and the
survival of the species. In short, it’s about evolution, past and present.
After this talk we may find ourselves listening to our neighborhood birds
differently.  
 
ABOUT DURO
 
DURO is a volunteer organization composed of retired Duke Employees who
serve the community through the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership.  We
collaborate with other groups at Duke, including the Duke Alumni Association
and Board, the Community Service Center, and numerous Duke Student social
action groups. The support offered to Lakewood includes tutoring, assistance in
the media center and computer lab, book donations, health and wellness
activities, gardening and working on special projects and events. DURO funds
the school garden and a backpack program to provide weekend meals for students
in need. Our financial support comes from fund raising through grants and
donations from the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs and the Duke-Durham
Fund.
“Staying
engaged is the best way to age”
 
 
To
registereither complete the
form below and send it with a check for $40.00 PAYABLE TO DUKE UNIVERSITY with DURO in the memo line to David Stein,
Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership, PO Box 90433, Durham, NC 27708-0433.
OR,
 
To use a credit card, e-mail
David Stein @ david.stein at duke.eduto
receive on-line payment instructions.
 
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