![]() ![]() The “Science, Ethics, Identity and Human Rights” project by Duke and NC State will identify key challenges for applying scientific technologies in human rights contexts, with an initial focus on identifying human remains and reunifying migrant children with families on the U.S.-Mexico border.“By encouraging collaboration between the four Kenan Institutes and their four host universities, we are advancing new knowledge, inventing new pedagogies, enhancing economic development, and proposing new solutions based on creative synergies.” ![]() ![]() “The grants provide a platform for creative teams of problem-solvers from across science, business, the arts and humanities to make a lasting impact,” said Dan Drake, President of the William R. To be eligible for funding, project proposals drew participants from two or more of the four universities that house Kenan Institutes. The Kenan Creative Collaboratory provides funding for innovative research, teaching and problem solving at the intersection of private enterprise, engineering, technology and science, arts and ethics. Awards ranged from $7,500 to $93,000 per project. Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Institute for Engineering, Technology and Science at North Carolina State University, the Thomas S. (Chapel Hill, N.C.-May 15, 2015) – The Kenan Creative Collaboratory has announced selections for its first grants to incubate and advance partnerships among researchers, teachers, practitioners, performers and artists to find connections in the collective work of the four Kenan Institutes and their host institutions: the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the William R. Kenan Institutes at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, NC State, and UNC School of the Arts make the Kenan Creative Collaboratory ![]() My hope is that ARDEO encourages other health care practitioners to do the same.Kenan Creative Collaboratory funds projects that connect work across Kenan Institutes and host N.C. This aspect of caring for the whole person is something that I see happening at the Burn Center. As I watched her health care team attend to the needs of her body, I longed for them to address her psychological health: how this injury would shift who she is in the world. Her entire world was changed by this injury and she is now incapacitated. She worked for many years as a nurse and was injured by a patient. My interest in narrative medicine began as I watched my mother recover from multiple back surgeries. This weekend, I'm excited to share my new play, ARDEO, a one act play inspired by research and personal narratives of health practitioners and patients at UNC-CH’s North Carolina’s Jaycee Burn Center. This play explores how patients and doctors communicate with each other how health practitioners communicate with the public and how theatre artists can be of service to patients, doctors and the larger public. F rom the perspective of scientists and medical providers, the involvement of the dramatic arts represents a unique opportunity to appreciate the meaning of one’s work and to gain new insights and perspectives regarding its relevance. Narrative medicine not only serves the public health sector and works to improve the effectiveness of care, but it also offers as a healing tool for patients in recovery. ![]()
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