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Rachel Ruff Authors ESSENCE Feature on HBCU Graduates and Students Shaping the Future of Business, Fashion, and STEM

Rachel Ruff, Research Associate and Research & Communications Fellow at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center, was a featured contributor in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of ESSENCE Magazine, where she authored “Leaders of The New School: How Historically Black Colleges and Universities Are Defying the Odds and Creating a New Class of Innovators.” HBCU alums are constantly reminding the world that their institutions are not…

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“The Mentoring Continues”: DITE Program Concludes Spring 2024 Conference

By Lucas Hubbard

The spring gathering of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity’s Diversity Initiative…

“Ask For What You Need”: Latest Cohort of DITE Convenes in Washington D.C.

By Lucas Hubbard

On Tuesday, the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics kicked off its spring meeting…

Cook Center Recognizes Three Individuals and Mentors Who Are “Just Getting Started”

By Amber Holland

The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity awarded three Career Achievement Awards on…

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Faculty Affiliate Kisha Daniels is a Guest Speaker for NC Department of Instruction

Faculty Affiliate Dr. Kisha Daniels, an Associate Professor of the Practice of Education at…

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Postdoctoral Associate Xiongfei Lei Presents Paper at Bucknell University

Postdoctoral Associate Xiongfei Lei presented his paper titled “The Unintended Impacts of the One-child…

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Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither Leading DukeLine to Support Students

Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology…

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Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean is Featured Speaker at Columbia Law School

Faculty Affiliate Dr. Nancy MacLean, the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and…

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Founding Director William Darity Publishes Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois

Cook Center Founding Director William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor…

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Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither Partners with Durham Museum of Life and Science

Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology…

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Visiting Faculty Dr. Mónica García-Pérez Publishes Paper on Healthy Food Intervention Program Helping Patients with Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease

Cook Center Visiting Faculty member Dr. Mónica García-Pérez has co-authored a paper in Diabetology…

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Cook Center Awarded $3.4 Million in Grants for Second Phase of NASCC Studies

The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University is thrilled to…

The Black Reparations Project

Pt. 2 of Podcast Episode on The Black Reparations Project Released via Entrepreneurial Appetite

Dr. William A. “Sandy” Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen have been featured in the…

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