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2013 Global Health Commencement speaker Sanjana Marpadga shares what inspired her to pursue global health, and how she transformed her newfound passion into action at Duke. By: DukeGlobalHealth Categories: Campus Life, Health & Medicine, International, Student Life Tags: global health commencement, global health senior, global health senior story, global health, duke global health, senior story, sanjana mapadga, duke university, dghi, global health research, global health graduation Original link:http://www.youtube.
From Inspiration to Action: One Student's Journey in Global Health at Duke
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Saying "humanity in the abstract will never inspire you in the same way as human beings you meet," Melinda Gates urged Duke University's graduates Sunday to use new technology to connect with others, including people in the developing world whose lives Americans can now touch in a more personal way."Over the course of your lives, I promise you, you will have many opportunities to use technology to make your world bigger, to meet more different kinds of people and to keep in touch with more of the people you meet," she said in the annual commencement ceremony in Wallace Wade Stadium. "I want you to connect because I believe it will inspire you to do something, to make a difference in the world."Gates, who received undergraduate and business degrees from Duke and later served as a university trustee, said, "it is so fantastic to be back here at my alma mater." She recalled attending Duke basketball games and spending long nights writing computer code as a student, long before she became co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest transparently operated private foundation."The way you communicate is the single biggest difference between you now and me a generation ago," she told the graduates. Smartphones and other technologies have proliferated, even in a Kenyan slum she visited recently, making it possible for Americans to get to know people in other countries more personally."Your world really can become a neighborhood," Gates said, arguing that "deep human connection ... is not a tool. It's not a means to an end. It is the end -- the purpose and the result of a meaningful life -- and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity and humanity."Delivered under a sunny sky, her address highlighted the ceremony at which Duke awarded more than 5,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees, including to those who graduated in September and December.Read more here: https://today.duke.edu/2013/05/commence2013. By: Duke, Duke University Categories: Campus Life, Student Life Tags: duke, barnhill, graduation, gates Original link:http://www.youtube.
Duke Graduation 2013: Celebration, Reflection and Staying Connected
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Congratulations, Duke Class of 2013
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Duke University Commencement Exercises were held in Wallace Wade Stadium on Sunday, May 12, 2013. The commencement address was given by philanthropist and businesswoman Melinda Gates. By: dukeuniversity Categories: Alumni, Campus Life, Student Life Tags: duke, university, graduation, 2013 Original link:http://www.ustre
Duke University Commencement 2013
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From Inspiration to Action: One Student's Journey in Global Health

Sanjana Marpadga, a biology major and global health certificate graduate, was this year's student speaker at DGHI's Global Health Undergraduate Commencement ceremony.

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Artificial Intelligence: In and Out of Jeopardy

IBM's David Ferrucci took on the Jeopardy Challenge --- to create an intelligent computer system that could rival human Jeopardy champions

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Duke Oncologist Named as One of TIME's 100 Most Influential People

Duke's Dr. Kimberly Blackwell, one of the country's leading breast cancer researchers, is included in this year's roster of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people