Visible Thinking is an online, multimedia publication of Duke University that features the faculty-mentored work of our undergraduates across the full spectrum of majors, certificates, and other interdisciplinary and immersive activities that anchor research experiences. A hallmark of Duke’s undergraduate liberal arts education is a faculty-mentored scholarly experience. Our students traverse a rich array of research opportunities domestically and internationally, engaging every major area of knowledge production.
The focus of Visible Thinking is therefore interpreted in the broadest sense, and includes scholarly articles, research posters, visual, embodied, and aural expressions from the arts, documentary pieces, short stories, commentary on critical issues of the time. It is an ecosystem of signature works capturing the Duke Excellence—compelling communication; understanding languages, cultures and civilizations; understanding humanistic and artistic inquiry; understanding scientific and social scientific inquiry; managing, analyzing and interpreting data.
Recognizing the global and multicultural nature of both the Duke community and its research interests, Visible Thinking welcomes work in languages other than English and endeavors to represent the array of linguistic contexts – translation, community advocacy, and multilingual proficiency – in which Duke research occurs.
Finally, Visible Thinking focuses not merely on research outputs, but seeks to amplify reflection on the research and creative process, the pragmatic work of tackling difficult problems from a rich array of research methodologies and orientations.
Visible Thinking is an initiative of Duke University’s Office of Academic Affairs in Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, and is generously supported by the Office of the Provost, Bass Connections, and the Pratt School of Engineering.