WORKING@DUKEn NEWS YOU CAN USE n Volume 7, Issue 6 n December 2012/January 2013

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Annual Fitness Challenge

Women’s Basketball Tickets

Give Back Over The Holidays

Who Are We?Special Report: A look at where we live, our jobs, our age, how long we’ve worked at Duke and more

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Editor’sNote

LEANORA MINAI Contents

Often in Working@Duke, we tell stories ofindividual staff and faculty. But it’s beena goal of the Working@Duke editorialteam to take a closer look at our

workforce demographics.For the feature article in this issue, the

editorial team dug through data from Duke HumanResources to see what story the data tells. Inthese pages, we present the trends we discoveredthrough story and illustration. With 34,863 peopleworking at Duke University and Duke UniversityHealth System, we’re the size of a small city with a diverse workforce.

Our report “Who Are We?” begins on page 4 and covers age, jobs, gender, years ofservice, where we live and race and ethnicity.Please take some time to learn about Duke’speople and interesting workforce trends –everything from how we’re addressing workforceaging to an explanation about why womenoutnumber men here.

“When people think of Duke, they oftenpicture professors, researchers and health careproviders because they represent what we areknown for: education, research and patient care,”Denise Motley Johnston, director of recruitmentat Duke, told Working@Duke. “However, we alsohave a huge supporting cast of staff, includinggroundskeepers and clerical support.”

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Cover:Who Are We? As of this summer, the employeepopulation at Duke University andDuke University Health Systemstood at 34,863, making thenumber of employees bigger thansome North Carolina cities. Find outwhere we live and work, how old weare and more.

$3.25 Billion Campaign Generating excitement about theDuke Forward campaign prioritiescomes, in large part, from sharingstories from faculty and staff abouthow Duke has made a difference.

Get Moving Challenge Sign up for the Get MovingChallenge, the employee fitnesscompetition that runs Jan. 14 toMarch 24. Last year, employeestook 608 million steps, exercised2.8 million minutes and lost 3,879 pounds.

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Get a free flu shot North Carolina typically sees its peak of flu cases in January, so now’s a good time

to get a flu shot.Free seasonal flu vaccinations are available from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to

Friday (with the exception of noon to 2 p.m. Wednesdays) in the Employee OccupationalHealth and Wellness (EOHW) office on the basement level of the Red Zone of Duke Clinic.No appointment is necessary. Bring a valid DukeCard.

For more information, visit duke.edu/flu.

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Find Duke faculty expertsIf you work on grant proposals or other university reports, you may be familiar with this

request: Find me all of the Duke faculty members who are experts in cancer, water quality orsome other field of research.

Answering such questions at a decentralized university can be a challenge. That’s whythe provost’s office has been developing a campus-wide database to provide quick summariesof faculty scholarship in diverse fields. It plans to begin rolling out Scholars@Duke in 2013,initially with several departments and schools and then expanding to include others.

In the meantime, Duke faculty and staff can find answers at another new data source. In early 2012, Duke contributed profiles on thousands of its faculty members to a databasethat seeks to boost North Carolina’s economy by connecting researchers with newcollaborators. REACH NC [reachnc.org] highlights a faculty expert’s research fields,publications, patents and other information.

“It’s a very useful tool,” says Tom Healy, Duke’s director of corporate relations. “When I get an inquiry from a company about whether Duke is doing research on some topic, I go to REACH NC and check which of our faculty members might be good matches.”

Want to learn more? Contact Julia Trimmer [julia.trimmer@duke.edu] in the provost’soffice. She heads Duke’s partnership with REACH NC and its development of the newScholars@Duke database system.

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Celebrating 50 years of integration Duke’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life will begin Jan. 20 with the

keynote address by the Rev. William C. Turner Jr., a Duke Divinity School professor.As part of celebrating King’s life, Duke will also begin commemorating its 50th

anniversary of integration,highlighting the five African-American undergraduate studentswho broke the color barrier in 1963by becoming the first blackundergraduates at Duke.

Turner was in the fourth classof black undergraduates admitted toDuke. In 1967, he became the secondblack football player at Duke.

On Jan. 25, Duke will formallylaunch the nine-monthcommemoration called “Celebratingthe Past, Charting the Future:Commemorating 50 Years of BlackStudents at Duke University.” Theopening reception will include

recognition of the three surviving black members of Duke’s first integrated class, WilhelminaReuben-Cooke, Gene Kendall and Nathaniel “Nat” White, Jr.

The full schedule of MLK events is at mlk.duke.edu. Details of the 50th anniversarycelebrations are at spotlight.duke.edu/50years.

The commemoration to highlight the 50th anniversary of integration will also beobserved during the annual Employee Kickoff Celebration, which takes place at the firsthome football game in 2013.

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Duke holiday social is Dec. 6 Ring in the holidays with colleagues during the Duke

holiday social from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Von Canonrooms in the Bryan Center on West Campus.

The event is open toDuke University and DukeUniversity Health Systemfaculty and staff. Drop inand enjoy freerefreshments, holidaymusic and theopportunity to socializewith colleagues.

“The holiday socialis one way Duke has ofshowing appreciation foremployees,” said DeniseEvans, executive directorof Duke Staff and LaborRelations and Duke’s

Staff and Family Programs. “It is a way to thank staff for theirpositive contributions not only during the holidays, butthroughout the year.”

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Be prepared for severe weather Faculty and staff members are encouraged to review

Duke’s severe weather policy, as well as their servicecategories, to ensure they understand their roles andresponsibilities if Duke declares severe weather or anemergency condition. Job categories include essential,reserve and delayed.

Essential service employees are required to report to or remain at work; reserve service will be assigned atthe time of severe weather; and delayed service employeeswill not report to or remain at work in severe weather.

A link to the emergency conditions policy andsnow/ice priority clearing map is at emergency.duke.edu.In the event of severe weather, employees should monitorthe website or call (919) 684-INFO for updates.

Gene Kendall, left, Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke andNathaniel “Nat” White, Jr. are the three survivingmembers of the first five undergraduate students tointegrate Duke in 1963.

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‘The City of Duke’Denise Motley Johnston, director of recruitment at Duke,

describes the place she works as “the city of Duke.”With 34,863 employees, Duke is larger than many cities in

North Carolina, including Carrboro, Asheboro and Wake Forest.And like most communities, Duke boasts a variety of jobs, frompolice officer to zoologist.

“When people think of Duke, they often picture professors,researchers and health care providers because they represent what we are known for: education, research and patient care,” MotleyJohnston said. “However, we also have a huge supporting cast of staff, including groundskeepers and clerical support.”

To help organize jobs, Duke Human Resources groups theminto families of related jobs such as “office support,” “faculty” and “service.” Faculty is the largest group with 5,756 employees,

according to Duke Human Resources.Nursing is a close second with 5,563employees.

“The fact that we have close to the samenumber of employees in the nursing familiesas we do faculty surprises most people, but ittakes many nurses to keep our hospitals,clinics and practices running,” MotleyJohnston said.

Smaller job families such as “skilledcrafts” include positions like steam plantoperators to keep buildings cool in summerand warm in winter and cryogenicrefrigeration specialists to care for specializedmachines for freezing research samples.

“All jobs are essential to the effectiveand efficient operation of Duke,” MotleyJohnston said. “The Duke brand is verystrong, and many people relocate to this area hoping to become part of the Duke family.” �

It’s a simple question with a complicated answer: Who are we?At Duke, we are doctors and professors, housekeepers and

police officers, staff assistants and researchers. We are youngand old. We live in North Carolina, out of state and even out

of the country. We are many things, but above all else, we are Duke.As of July 2012, the employee population at Duke University

and Duke University Health System stood at 34,863, making thenumber of employees bigger than some North Carolina cities.According to figures from the 2010 Census, Duke’s employeepopulation would rank as the 24th largest city in the state.

With numbers like that, Duke naturally has a diverse and vast workforce. That’s why we’ve set out to pull all thesepuzzle pieces together and look at the complete picture to explore where we live, how long we’ve worked at Duke, whatkind of jobs we hold and more. We found a melting pot of talents, backgrounds and experiences that make up Duke andhelp showcase what a unique group of faculty and staff comprise our workforce.

So, who are we? Let’s find out…

Duke groups jobs into “families” of related positions. Faculty and nursing families have the largest number of

employees, followed by office support, administrative/managerial and clinical technicians.

Who AreWe?

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Asian Population Growing Like other states across the country, North Carolina’s Hispanic

population has more than doubled in size between 2000 and 2010.At Duke, another group has seen its number grow fast.

Faculty and staff identifying as Asian represent the third largestemployee demographic on campus behind those recognizingthemselves as white or black, according to Duke Human Resources.Hispanic comes in fourth.

Asians comprise 8 percent of Duke’semployee population, which is higher thanAsian residents in Durham County (4.7 percent) and North Carolina (2.3 percent). In 2003, Asians comprised5.5 percent of Duke’s faculty and staff.

Li-Chen Chin, director ofintercultural programs for Duke StudentAffairs, said Asian employee population

growth mirrorsundergraduatestudents, 21 percentof whom identify as Asian-American. Asians are typically found among faculty in highereducation, but Duke’s growth of Asianemployees includes an effort to increase Asianstaff members, Chin said.

“Diversity is one of the core values of Duke,”she said. “Growing the number of minorityemployees only helps to offer the best faculty andstaff for a diverse group of students we serve.”

Ben Reese, vice president and chief diversityofficer with the Office for Institutional Equity, saidhaving a diverse workforce is important to offeringa broad range of perspective, viewpoints and ideas.

“As important as the diversity of ourworkforce is to success in today’s work, it’sequally important for us to create the type ofenvironment where all individuals have theopportunity for professional growth,development and full participation in theworkplace,” Reese said. “Inclusion speaks to thiseffort to fully utilize talents of everyone in ourworkforce.” �

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Women Comprise Most of Duke’s WorkforceWhen Duke’s Administrative Women’s

Network sent an invitation for a “womenonly” financial workshop over the summer,the free seminar hit the 75-person registrationlimit in less than 48 hours.

That high demand reflects the largeproportion of women at Duke: 65 percent ofDuke University and Duke University HealthSystem employees are female – higher thanthe U.S. workforce average of 46.9 percent.

According to Martha Reeves, a visitingscholar in Women’s Studies and Sociology atDuke, the wealth of women is not unusual fora university, where many staff jobs are basedon service and support. Across the nation, andat Duke, women are over-represented in fieldslike nursing, clerical work and service areassuch as dining and housekeeping.

Duke’s proportion of women is higher than the U.S. workforce average of 46.9 percent.

Faculty and staff identifying as Asian represent the third largest employee demographic on campus.

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How Duke is Addressing Workforce AgingBy 2017, an average of 20 percent of Duke’s faculty and staff at the University and Health System will be eligible to retire. Will Duke be ready?“In coming years, workforces everywhere will have an exodus of employees,” said Keith Morris, a practitioner with Duke’s Learning

and Organization Development. “People will be leaving with a lot of institutional knowledge. The question to those who remain is, ‘how do you bridge that gap and retain that knowledge base, which is critical to continuing strong institutions?’ ”

In today’s workforce, generational diversity is readily apparent. At Duke, four generations make up staff and faculty ranks:

� Millennial (born 1980 to 1995)

� Generation X (1965 to 1979)

� Baby Boomer (born 1946 to 1964)

� Veteran (born before 1946)

Baby Boomers comprise the largestgroup – 38 percent of Duke’s 34,863 staffand faculty, according to Duke HumanResources. Along with the Veterangeneration, nearly half of all Duke employeeswere born before 1965, meaning asretirement approaches for some employees,others will prepare to fill vacancies.

To address the issue, Duke offersinitiatives like the First-Time SupervisorProgram and Duke Leadership Academy.Both programs recognize emerging leadersacross Duke by teaching leadership qualities.Activities include coaching, classroomlearning, personal assessments andapplication of leadership theories. So far, about 150 employees have graduated from the two programs.

Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, said offering an educational track to leadership helps keep valuable knowledge at Duke. The programs offer unique perspectives and practical experiences from long-tenured leaders to developing ones, he said.

“The initiatives have proven to be outstanding strategies in developing our internal talent and in setting the stage to address emergingsuccession issues,” Cavanaugh said. “While we have numerous internal development programs for our employees, these two have beensuccessful in identifying individuals who have capacity, interest and energy around broader responsibilities.” �

Four different generations of employees comprise Duke’s workforce. Veterans and Baby Boomers are closest to

reaching retirement age and include nearly half of faculty and staff.

In nursing fields at Duke, 5,039 of the 5,563 employees arefemale, according to Duke Human Resources. This bumps up theproportion of women in the Health System to 75 percent.

“We are slowly seeing more men join the field of nursing, but I think the public today would still find it very odd if a healthcare organization did not have a very high proportion of women,”said Mary Ann Fuchs, chief nursing officer for Duke UniversityHealth System.

Reeves, the visiting scholar, said Duke’s high proportion ofwomen may also reflect that academic institutions offer moreflexibility around work and family responsibilities. “In myexperience, academia is more conducive to work-life balance thanmany businesses driven by quarterly stock performance,” she said.

Duke addresses work-life balance and provides family-friendlypolicies, on-site child care centers and professional developmentthrough groups like the Administrative Women’s Network.

Christine Vucinich, an outreach coordinator with the Office of Information Technology, attended the women-only “Woman toWoman Financial Empowerment” seminar. The seminar waspresented over the summer in partnership with Duke HumanResources and the Administrative Women’s Network.

“It was empowering to see women in so many different roles –managers, staff assistants, coordinators, directors,” Vucinich said. “I realize I have lots of good role models around me.” �

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After two job layoffs in less than five years, Betty Jones was relieved when she got a staff assistant position at Duke.

“I remember thinking ‘no more interviews, no more jobsearching,’” she said. “I was looking for stability, and that’swhat Duke offered.”

That was 10 years ago. Jones is not alone in seeing Duke as a solid place to stay:

the average length of service for Duke staff and faculty is 9.09years, more than double the national average of 4.4 years in the education and hospital industry.

Meanwhile, the number of people applying to work atDuke is steadily increasing. In 2008, an average of 7,714individuals applied for work each month. This year, themonthly average rose to 12,459. In October alone, there were12,767 applicants for 1,085 open jobs.Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, said

the long employee tenure and consistently high job applicant numbers reflect the statureof the university.

“The combination ofexcellent benefits, theinclusive environment andthe sense that the Duke teamis making a difference ineducation, health and researchmake Duke a unique place towork,” he said.

For Jones, the relief ofbeing hired by the AlumniAssociation at Duke hasbeen followed by the prideof professionaldevelopment. Four yearsago, she was promoted tostaff specialist and is nowthe primary contact for allregional alumni events.

“I plan to stay at Dukeuntil I retire,” Jones said.“It’s just too good to leave.” �

Betty Jones

Thecombination

of excellent benefits,the inclusiveenvironment and thesense that the Duketeam is making adifference in education,health and research make Duke a uniqueplace to work.”

— Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration

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The average length of service for a Duke employee is more than double the national average in the education

and hospital industry.

Longer Tenure Than National Average

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By the NumbersDuke University & DukeUniversity Health System

34,863Total headcount

61,267Employees and dependents

covered by Duke’s health plans

44.11Average age

5,762Faculty

22,513Female

12,350Male

19 percentTotal hires that comprise nursing

12,767October job applicants

Source: Duke Human Resources, fiscal year 2011-12

Most Employees Call Durham County HomeFrom weekly farmers markets to

restaurants and festivals, it’s more than justthe moniker that attracted Emily Durhamto live in the city that shares her name.

“Durham is a great place for youngprofessionals,” she said. “It’s an affordableplace to live, and it has all the amenitiesyou’d want in a big city, but it feels like asmall one.”

She is one of slightly more than 17,000employees – about half of the entire Dukeworkforce – who live in Durham County,which covers the entirety of the city ofDurham and small portions of northwestRaleigh and eastern Chapel Hill. DurhamCounty is home to the highest number ofDuke faculty and staff, followed by WakeCounty with 7,540 employees.

In all, Duke employees live in 78 of100 counties in North Carolina, while 897live out of state and 88 live abroad in placeslike China, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, according to Duke Human Resources.

When Durham, a program coordinator with DukeEngage, started her job at Duke three years ago, she had only visited the Bull City afew times. Growing up in Greensboro, she didn’t realize all the City of Durham had to offer, like the Carolina Theatre or a growing“foodie” culture.

She lives near South Square now, but she said she can’t wait to move downtown and immerse herself in the city with favorite hangoutslike Old Havana SandwichShop, concerts at theAmerican Tobacco Campusand the East Campus track.

“Durham is consistentlyranked as one of the bestplaces to live, work and play,”said city of Durham MayorWilliam “Bill” Bell. “TheDuke employees who havechosen to live in ourcommunity are a vital part of the intricate tapestry thatmakes Durham so accepting,culturally diverse andcommunity-spirited.” �

About half of Duke’s workforce lives in Durham County.

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Editor’s Note About This Special ReportThe data used in “Who Are We?” reflects workforce demographics

at Duke University and Duke University Health System during fiscal year2011-12. It excludes temporary employees, students and PRNs, who arenurses who work as the situation demands.

Marsha Green and Bryan Roth of the Office of CommunicationServices wrote the stories. Paul Figuerado designed the graphics, and Leanora Minai edited the package.

Emily Durham, a program coordinator with DukeEngage, poses at Brightleaf Square, one of her favorite places in Durham.

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Staff members in the Office of UniversityDevelopment arrived Oct. 1 exhaustedbut delighted to find their inboxes filledwith well wishes and congratulations.

After two years of fundraising and monthsof event planning, they had officially launched“Duke Forward: Partnering for the Future,” theuniversity’s $3.25 billion fundraising campaign,during a weekend of events, including a gala forabout 800 people.

“It was an incredible start and a labor oflove, but there’s a lot more to be done,” saidSarah West, the associate vice president forstrategic planning and the campaign.

Part of that work involves building on themomentum of the campus launch by engagingsupporters where they work and live. Seniorleaders from Duke will attend regional eventsin Atlanta, Washington D.C., San Francisco,New York and London before the end of theacademic year.

“It takes a little army of staff and volunteersto put on each of these events,” West said.

Duke Forward, which continues until2017, raised $1.325 billion during its “silentphase” over the past two years. The campaignincludes goals for all 10 of Duke’s schools, theHealth System and a range of universityprograms including financial aid, faculty

development, research and patient care,athletics and annual giving. A significant partof the campaign will focus on Duke’s uniquestrengths, including interdisciplinary efforts inbasic and translational medical science,innovation and entrepreneurship, the arts,energy, global health and the environment.

Generating excitement about thesepriorities comes, in large part, from sharingstories of how Duke has made a difference fromfaculty, staff and students.

“We show people the quality of people whowork here, how meaningful their work is tothem and how hard they try for it,” PresidentRichard H. Brodhead said in October duringPrimetime, an employee forum.

He recalled the poignancy of meeting aDuke medical postdoctoral student at thecampaign launch who’s life had been saved atage 5 by pioneering stem cell research carriedout at Duke.

“These are the sort of miracles that only aresearch university can create,” Brodhead said.

Duke staff and faculty are encouraged toparticipate in the campaign by sharing theirDuke stories on the campaign website,dukeforward.duke.edu. �

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$3.25 Billion Campaign is University-wide Effort

William Conescu, right, director of Duke development communications, explores the Duke Forward websitewith Alice McKenzie at the Duke Forward campus launch.

Campaign ThemesBoundaries Not Included:Enriching the DukeExperience ($600 million)

� Experiential Learning

� Innovation and Entrepreneurship

� The Residential Experience

� The Arts

� Duke Athletics

Blazing New Paths:Activating Duke’s Powerfor the World ($1.4 billion)

� Global Health

� Medical Discovery and Patient Care

� Energy

� The Environment

� Interdisciplinary Research

� Durham and the Region

Fueling UncontainableIdeas: Sustaining Duke’sMomentum, ($1.25 billion)

� Financial Aid

� Faculty Excellence

� Duke Annual Fund

goonline Learn more at dukeforward.duke.edu

Jean Hanson has always been a big sports fan, but it wasn’tuntil 1999 that she found a game-changing passion.That was the year she first stepped in Cameron Indoor

Stadium to watch the Duke women’s basketball team. She received tickets by purchasing the Employee Athletic Pass.

By the 2000-01 season, Hanson was hooked on watching All-Americans Alana Beard and Georgia Schweitzer lead the BlueDevils to a 30-win season.

“It took me a few games to realize how cool it was to watch themplay,” said Hanson, associate director of clinical support and outreachfor Duke Student Health. “Our women are such phenomenal athletes,and I don’t think a lot of people realize what kind of high-caliber playthey can watch right on campus for a great price.”

Through the Employee Athletic Pass, presented by the DukeCredit Union, women’s basketball season tickets are available now ata discounted rate of $75. The price provides four tickets to each gamein Cameron Indoor Stadium and includes matchups against ACCrivals like Maryland and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.The regular season ends March 3.

Faculty and staff can purchase the Employee Athletic Pass bycalling Duke Athletics’ ticket office at (919) 681-2583.

“With a very exciting season, we need the Duke faculty andstaff ’s help to achieve our goal of packing Cameron Indoor Stadiumeach and every contest,” said women’s basketball coach Joanne P.McCallie. “The support we receive in the stands during games andfrom all across Duke from our faculty and staff is incredible. Theyare a very important part to the success of our program.”

Melissa Reese hopes to see a packed Cameron Indoor Stadiumthis season. She’s attended nearly every women’s home basketballgame for nearly 20 years and travels to some games in Chapel Hilland Raleigh and games in Maryland and Virginia. A researchanalyst in Duke’s Stem Cell Laboratory, Reese invites friends andfamily to join her at games to spread interest and show off theexcitement of Blue Devil basketball.

“I think the young women on the team are excellent rolemodels, especially for young girls,” Reese said. “It’s also aconvenient and inexpensive way to take part in the famousCameron atmosphere because the Duke women’s basketball fans are very enthusiastic about this team.” �

BY BRYAN ROTH

Duke Women’s BasketballBy the Numbers

� Three straight ACC regular season titles

� 10 returning players, including four starters

� 13 home wins in 2011-12 season

� 19 NCAA tournament appearances

� 141 wins at Duke for head coach Joanne P. McCallieentering 2012-13 season

Duke women’s basketball fans cheer during a game at Cameron Indoor Stadium last year.

Jean Hanson, standing in the long-sleeve white T-shirt with Duke blue short sleeve T-shirt,

has attended Duke games for more than a decade. Photo courtesy of Orin Day.

Buy DiscountSeason Ticketsto Women’sBasketball

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today.duke.edu/working � 11goonline Learn about the Get Moving Challenge and sign up at hr.duke.edu/getmoving

608 million steps.2.8 millionexerciseminutes. 3,879

pounds.That’s what 2,800

faculty and staff acrossDuke accomplished lastyear as part of the GetMoving Challenge, a team-based fitness competition that returns Jan. 14.

Employees can register for the Get Moving Challenge now athr.duke.edu/getmoving and form teams of five to 11 employees.Like last year, competition will focus on who can walk the moststeps, exercise the most minutes and lose the most weight. Sponsoredby LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program, thecompetition runs Jan. 14 to March 24. Registration is open throughthe end of January.

“There’s a little bit of a competitor in all of us, and it’s a reallyfun way to set a healthy routine,” said Rachel Lo Piccolo, Ph.D.program coordinator at Duke’s Marine Lab in Beaufort. “Looking atother teams’ progress pushed me to try a little harder. It never hurtsto have encouragement.”

During last year’s Get Moving Challenge, Lo Piccolo and sevenother employees at the Marine Lab in Beaufort formed the “MarineLab Movers,” which finished ninth overall in team rankings foraverage steps taken. She said her team did well because it built fitnessroutines into the day, like going for short walks before work, during

lunch or in theevening – activitiesthey continued afterthe competitionended.

“Even thoughwe’re separated fromDuke’s main campusin Durham, Get

Moving helped us feel the spirit of campus activities,” Lo Piccolosaid. “Participating helped us build nice rapport within ourcommunity and made us feel connected.”

During the upcoming Get Moving Challenge, pedometers willbe provided to competitors tracking daily steps. Individuals tracktheir own progress and compete against other individuals.

“We were thrilled with the effort so many faculty and staff putinto last year’s program,” said Julie Joyner, manager for LIVE FORLIFE. “It’s exciting to see employees embrace the challenge to achievebetter health and wellness.”

Among the returning competitors is Ellen Stevens, whose“Crazy Ladies” team of employees from Duke’s Division ofGynecologic Oncology managed the seventh highest total of averagesteps taken and finished first in average minutes of exercise.

“It’s definitely a way to improve your health and improve yourability to bond with coworkers,” said Stevens, a postdoctoral researchassociate in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology. “Exercisingtogether just motivates us to do more and work harder to win.” �

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This team of employees from Duke’s Division of Gynecologic Oncology averaged the most minutes of exercise among all teams in last year’s Get Moving Challenge.

How to ‘Get Moving’Register now for the Get Moving Challenge at hr.duke.edu/getmoving. Participantscan compete individually or form teams of five to 11 employees. Competitionfocuses on who walks the most steps, exercises the most minutes and loses themost weight. The challenge runs Jan. 14 to March 24.

Faculty and Staff Set to ‘Get Moving’Annual fitness challenge starts Jan. 14

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Get involved with Duke-Durham community efforts at csc.civic.duke.eduor send email to domonique.redmond@duke.edu

As the good will of Duke community members hits aholiday high, Rev. Bruce Puckett is capitalizing.Puckett, director of community ministry at the Duke Chapel, is among faculty and staff taking part in Duke’s

annual “Project Share,” a program that works to create holidaymemories for those in need throughout the Durham community.Every year, Duke Chapel employees and worshippers “adopt”Durham families and collect a variety of gifts to donate to them.

“There’s something really special about seeing people’s faceswhen they receive gifts,” Puckett said. “It’s a time of year wheneveryone should have the chance to be joyful and having a givingheart can benefit us as much as the people who receive our gifts.”

Project Share is an annual effort coordinated through theDuke Community Service Center in partnership with theVolunteer Center of Durham and Durham’s Department of SocialServices. It’s part of the larger “Share Your Christmas” program runby the Durham offices. This will be the 37th year Duke has heldProject Share, which concludes Dec. 5.

“Our story is no different than any other non-profit – we haveincreased need and diminished resources, which make it difficult tobe able to do all you want to do,” said Kim Shaw, executive directorof the Volunteer Center of Durham. “Having a strong communitypartner like Duke is important because we know we can count onDuke every year.”

During each holiday season, Duke pledges to provide gifts forat least 300 adults and children across Durham through donationsfrom Duke departments, offices and student groups. On average, it costs about $50 to sponsor one person.

For Puckett, that means lots of shopping. Duke Chapel staffand worshippers received a “wish list” in the fall from theCommunity Service Center describing about 70 Durham residentsthe Chapel will sponsor. Puckett and other staff purchase gifts likeclothing or blankets.

“We collect items and store them in our office until we run outof space,” he said. “After a few weeks, we organize and deliver thegifts that have been donated.”

For the past five years, Pegeen Ryan-Murray helped organize a Project Share effort for the Office of Undergraduate Scholars andFellows. She'd set out a donation box and have a contest to seewhich scholarship group had the most number of students make adonation. After money was collected, students from the scholarshipgroups would go shopping and hold a wrapping party.

“It made us all feel good doing something positive that made a difference in people’s lives,” said Ryan-Murray, now a programcoordinator for the Pratt School of Engineering’s EngineeringWorld Health Summer Institute. “If everyone did this, it’d be a different kind of world.” �

BY BRYAN ROTH

Each year, large bags of gifts line the office hallways at Duke Chapel, as employees and worshippers donate items as part of Project Share.

‘PROJECT SHARE’ ORGANIZES DONATION EFFORTS ON CAMPUS

Giving BackDuring the

HolidaySeason

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TEAMWORK AWARD In April 2011, Duke approved the purchase and

implementation of EpicCare, an electronic health records systemto integrate patient records across all of Duke University HealthSystem’s clinics and hospitals. The primary care clinics were thefirst wave of settings selected to implement the new system called“Maestro Care.”

A 52-member team of computer programmers, clinicalliaisons, trainers, physician champions, interface analysts andtechnical administrators customized the system for Duke’s primarycare setting, loaded millions of rows of data and trained more than1,400 users before the critical go-live date.

Karen Rourk, who nominated the team as director of theMaestro Care Ambulatory project, said the support, guidance andtechnical work during the yearlong implementation was vital to thesuccessful launch to all 33 clinics in July. “I’ve been at Duke foralmost 18 years, and the Ambulatory Team is one of the mostcollaborative and successful groups I’ve ever been a part of,” she said.

Ateam of employees who implemented critical newtechnology in Duke University Health System andprofessors who engaged the Duke University community in discussions around race and gender

received awards in November for teamwork and diversity, two ofDuke’s hallmark guiding principles.

The 52-member Maestro Care Ambulatory Group receivedthe Teamwork Award for implementing the new Maestro Careelectronic health record system in 33 primary care clinics in July.

Paula D. McClain and Kerry L. Haynie, co-directors of theCenter for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the SocialSciences (REGSS), received the Diversity Award.

Teamwork & DiversityawardsDIVERSITY AWARD

If a Dukefaculty orgraduate student’sresearch intereststouch upon race,ethnicity orgender in thesocial sciences, ithas probablycome to theattention of PaulaD. McClain andKerry L. Haynie,co-directors of theCenter for theStudy of Race,Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS).

REGSS has sponsored lectures and visiting scholars, held five major national conferences, brought six scholars to campus through adistinguished lecture series and created mentoring programs to create andsupport a community dedicated to examining the complex intersectionsof race, gender and ethnicity.

“REGSS has provided the singular university formal platform forcelebrating faculty work that crosses these intersections,” said KarlaHolloway, the James B. Duke Professor of English who nominatedREGSS for the Diversity Award. “Perhaps even more critical, it is REGSSthat incoming faculty and scholars of color look to for recruitmentconversations and the kinds of programming that eventually convince them to come to Duke.” �

BY MARSHA A. GREEN

Kerry L. Haynie, left, and Paula D. McClain

The Maestro Care Team with Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead and Health System Executive Vice President William J. Fulkerson.

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When Susie Palmieri was planning a trip to Charleston, S.C. with herhusband, she made two reservations: two nights in a hotel for themand two nights for Precious, her 25-pound mixed-breed dog, at Camp Bow Wow in Durham.

“If you take the dog with you on vacation, it cuts down on the ‘honey and me’time,” said Palmieri, a service access manager for inpatient surgical reservations atDuke’s Patient Revenue Management Organization.

Through PERQS, Duke’s employee discount program, Palmieri receives a 10 percent discount on dog boarding. Camp Bow Wow [j.mp/T3rCBv] is one of several employee discounts that can make travel easier.

Here are others:

Roadside protection with AAAYou can save $10 on the enrollment fee when joining AAACarolinas for the first time. AAA offers 24-hour roadsideassistance, including help with lockouts, towing, flattires, dead batteries and running out of gas. Membershave access to a range of other product and servicediscounts, free maps and tour books and reimbursementfor certain expenses incurred if a trip is delayed for more than 24 hours because of theft or a car accident more than 100 miles from home.Membership levels range from $49 to $149. j.mp/PmggcH

Save on parking at RDULeave your vehicle at FastPark & Relax and let the FastPark shuttle deliver youdirectly to the airport, less than 10 minutes away. Sign up for the Relax for Rewardsprogram and pay $4 per day for parking ($4.75 starting in January 2013).j.mp/VfLncp

Experience BroadwayCorporateOffers.com offers discounts from 30 to 60 percent on Broadway showssuch as Cinderella, Elf and A Christmas Story the Musical. Shows are listed up totwo months in advance. You must access the CorporateOffers.com website from a Duke computer to gain access to the discount. j.mp/WtwW3M

Celebrate the holidays at BiltmoreThe holidays are a special time at the Biltmore Estate, the 250-room chateau andgrounds built by George Vanderbilt in the 1890s in Asheville, N.C. See the 35-foottree in the Banquet Hall, learn how to make traditional wreaths at A Gardener’sPlace, taste wine at the Winery or whisper wishes into Santa’s ear on weekendswhile shopping at Antler Hill Village. Duke staff and faculty save up to $10 perticket on daytime entrance fees. j.mp/X3yU9G

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Sustainable ukeY O U R S O U R C E F O R G R E E N N E W S A T D U K E

The battlefor the belthas begun,but it’s not

too late to step intothe ring. About 850 students,

faculty and staff havesigned up to provetheir mettle in thesecond “Green DevilSmackdown,” Duke’ssustainability-themedcompetition thatruns through March2013. Dukecommunity memberscan sign up and formteams any time toearn points for “green” actions, such asriding the bus, carpooling or completingthe Duke Carbon Calculator.

“Ultimately, the Smackdown is all abouthow we can inspire and challenge our peers tobe more sustainable,” said Tavey Capps, Duke’ssustainability director. “The last competitionwas one of our most successful outreach efforts,and I can’t wait to see how this year’s programextends the reach and impact of sustainableinitiatives across campus.”

The team that earns the highestaverage points per participant will becrowned champion and receive a custom-designed championship belt. In addition, a drawing will be held at the end of thecompetition to award an iPad to a Dukecommunity member who completes at leastseven challenges during the competition.

In the last Smackdown challenge, a PrattSchool of Engineering team with 13 staffmembers and a graduate student won thechallenge and claimed the championship belt.

The belt, which has been proudly displayed ina case by Twinnie’s Cafe in the FitzpatrickCenter for Interdisciplinary Engineering,Medicine, and Applied Science, is nowawaiting its new home.

August Burns, departmental businessmanager for the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, was a member of Pratt’s“greengineering” team. She saidparticipating in the Green DevilSmackdown isn’t just about winning. She’s adopted more sustainable behaviors –like using WeCar, Duke’s car-sharingprogram, and buying a hybrid car.

“The Smackdown gave me a little extra nudge because I was thinking aboutsustainability when I was looking for a car,”said Burns, who traded in her 2001 NissanAltima and bought a 2012 Kia Optima afterlast year’s Smackdown. “It’s among the bestdecisions I’ve ever made because I get mymoney back by saving on better mileage, and I’m not burning as much gas.” �

BY BRYAN ROTH

Sign Up for Green Devil SmackdownTeams form for sustainability-themed team competition

The Pratt School of Engineering’s “greengineering” team displays the Green DevilSmackdown championship belt after winning it in the last sustainability competition,which ran Feb–April 2012.

today.duke.edu/working � 15goonline Sign up for the Green Devil Smackdown at sustainability.duke.edu/smackdown

2012 Smackdown Numbers

292Participants ate at a campuseatery with local/organic fare

236Participants attended campus

Earth Month event

67Students, faculty and staff

who made donations to DukeFree Store

35Volunteers at Duke Campus Farm

50Staff members who completedthe Leading for Environmental

Sustainability workshop

10Offices/departments that earnedGreen Workplace Certification

The first Smackdown ran February-April 2012.

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