Staal, Love win Moral Purpose Award

What role does a liberal arts education play in creating a full life? Duke freshman Sophia Staal and UNC-Chapel Hill senior Darius Love provide answers in their Kenan Moral Purpose Award-winning essays, given to the best student papers on the topic from the two schools. Staal recounted the conversion that happened after she became a Division I varsity athlete, while Love reflected on how he learned to embrace difference during his four years in Chapel Hill.

Integrity report reaches across Duke

Integrity in Undergraduate Life at Duke University: A Report on the 2011 Survey follows up on surveys conducted in 1995, 2000 and 2005 and includes new questions on nonacademic subjects. Duke Student Government held its first ever faculty-student town hall meeting on April 4th to discuss its findings, covered by the Duke Chronicle. The Duke Chronicle also ran an article and editorial on the report, and Duke Today ran a piece on the report. The full report may be found here.

Ruth Grant discusses Strings Attached on WUNC’s The State of Things

KIE senior fellow Ruth Grant discussed how incentives affect good behavior and whether rewarding someone for being good devalues acts of goodness, the topic of her latest book, Strings Attached: The Ethics of Incentives, on WUNC’s The State of Things on 3/28. Listen or download audio here.

Kenan Summer Fellows Program applications due this Friday, March 30, at 5pm

What does it mean to live an ethical life? As many as six Duke undergrads will receive $5,000 to spend this summer exploring answers to the question through original research, community interventions, the arts, or other projects of their choosing. The application deadline is March 30. Full details may be found here.

Post-graduate fellowship in business, law, and human rights due April 2

Graduating Duke seniors: applications are due April 2 for a one-year fellowship that will support the U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights. Click here for more information about the position and application process and for a Duke Today piece on the job.

Kenan Moral Purpose Award essays due April 13

$1,000 will be given to two undergrads, one from Duke and one from UNC-Chapel Hill, for the best essay on the role a liberal arts education plays in a student’s moral development. Click here for more information.

New report on the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights released

Why do the world’s most revered companies end up embroiled in human rights abuses? What is to be done? “The U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Analysis and Implementation,” summarizes the current state of play in the field and contributes to the agenda going forward. The full report is available here.

Graduate Instructorship Award applications accepted until 2/17

KIE Advisory Board member Jimmy Soni (T’07) named managing editor of Huffington Post

Congratulations to KIE Advisory Board member and Duke alum Jimmy Soni on being named managing editor of the Huffington Post. Forbes and the Atlantic Wire have more information on his appointment.

Barak Richman comments on Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC decision

KIE Senior Fellow and Duke Professor of Law Barak D. Richman, who submitted a “friend of the court” brief urging the Supreme Court to take a narrow view of the ministerial exception in employment discrimination cases, commented on it in this Chronicle of Higher Education article.