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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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Kisha Daniels’ Service-Learning Course Featured on Duke Trinity Podcast

Faculty Affiliate Kisha Daniels, Associate Professor of the Practice in Education at Duke University,…

Melissa Scott: Climate Positivity—It’s What We Need

Former Postdoctoral Associate and The Pandemic Divide contributor Melissa Scott recently published an op-ed…

Keisha Bentley-Edwards discusses links between economic justice and health equity on Questions You Didn’t Ask Podcast

Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, was recently featured on the…

Carliss Chatman co-authors article about Disney’s Jimmy Kimmel decision in Bloomberg Law

Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, co-authored a commentary…

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Quran Karriem Announced as New Assistant Professor at Syracuse

We are excited to announce that Quran Karriem, former Postdoctoral Associate at the Samuel…

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Prentiss Dantzler co-authors op-ed on Toronto Housing Crisis and Unequal Eviction Burdens

Faculty Affiliate Prentiss Dantzler recently co-authored an op-ed in Metropolitics titled “Visible Minorities, Visible…

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New report from Loneke Blackman Carr on 2022 NIH Workshop

Faculty Affiliate Loneke Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at…

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Celebrating Faculty Affiliate Raffi García on earning tenure at RPI

We are thrilled to celebrate Dr. Raffi E. García, Faculty Affiliate and Cohort 11/12…

New paper from Loneke Blackman Carr and Kristen Cooksey Stowers on weight loss interventions among black men and women

Faculty Affiliates Loneke Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at…

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Nancy MacLean Publishes Op-Ed on Duke Leadership Amid Federal Threats to Higher Education

Cook Center core faculty, Nancy MacLean, published an op-ed in the News & Observer…

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Two new articles on Health and Justice from Lauren Brinkley-Rubenstein

Faculty Affiliate Lauren Brinkley-Rubenstein, Professor of Population Health Sciences at Duke University, recently contributed…

Students and instructors from the 10th cohort of Young Scholars, gathered in the Durham Armory on July 28.

Nancy MacLean Publishes Op-Ed on Duke Leadership Amid Federal Threats to Higher Education

The Historic Durham Armory, the hopping location downtown that once featured acts from Duke…

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