Episode Summary: What makes the Hank & Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute so impactful for students? In this episode of Voices in Equity, the official podcast of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, we spotlight the transformative Hank & Billye Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute. In…
Last week, two Cook Center students from the spring 2024 Global Inequality Research Initiative (GIRI) seminar, Elena Granowsky and Lauren Tse, delivered a poster presentation on their research project at the North Carolina Global Health Alliance Conference in Raleigh. Their research “Do Elderly Men and Women Experience Grief Differently?,” which was completed as a capstone…
The American Book Fest announced the winners and finalists of the 21st Annual Best Book Awards (BBA), one of the world’s largest international book award programs for mainstream, indie, and self-published titles. Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 100 categories. Awards were presented for titles published in 2020-2024. The Black Reparations Project:…
Episode Summary: How can we inspire the next generation of scholars to engage with issues of social equity and justice? In this episode of Voices in Equity, the official podcast of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, we spotlight the transformative Hank & Billye Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute….
Faculty Affiliate Kristen Cooksey Stowers, assistant professor in the department of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut, was recently featured in a UConn Today article about her research on women of color living in a food swamp in North Hartford. Dr. Cooksey Stowers was the senior author on a study in the Journal…
Faculty Affiliate Henry McKoy, the senior advisor to the undersecretary for the U.S. Office of Science and Innovation, was quoted in a student article about NC State’s fifth annual Energy Week. Dr. McKoy was present to lead a conversation and workshop. “I’ve always connected sustainability to the ability of something to persist and sustain over time,”…
The Cook Center is pleased to announce that Founding Director, Dr. William A. Darity Jr. has been awarded the William Spriggs Memorial Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management! This award honors the life of a trailblazer in economics and labor policy, William Spriggs. Spriggs served as a chief economist of the…
Faculty Affiliate Jean Beaman is set to give a lecture for the second event in the Centre for Migration Studies at University of British Columbia speaker series on Migration, Racialization, and Inequality. She will present her talk, “Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-Belonging in Plural Societies” in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. This event…
Together, the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, and Duke University Health System launched a new initiative in 2021 aimed at achieving increased access to and equitable representation in clinical research. Cook Center Associate Director of Research and Core Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley Edwards has worked as a co-director with…
The Cook Center is proud to announce that Core Faculty and Director of the Inequality Studies Minor Adam Hollowell has been named one of 12 finalists for Judith Deckers Prize at Duke! The Judith Deckers Prize is a recently established award at Duke University that recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching. It aims to celebrate and promote outstanding…