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Impact is the heartbeat of the Sanford School of Public Policy. A new report showcases dozens of impactful examples—a testament to a century of shaping public policy for the better
#Duke100
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This just in! Our own Prof. Sandy Darity will receive a 2020 Dean's Award for excellence in mentoring graduate students
@DukeU
🥇
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The achievements made by Duke faculty go beyond the classroom! The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) has inducted Professor William Darity (
@SandyDarity
) for his research on social inequality.
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We’re sending a warm welcome to David French, senior editor at
@TheDispatch
, and a contributing writer for
@TheAtlantic
, who’s joining Sanford as the 2022 Pamela and Jack Egan Visiting Professor!
Read more about Professor French here:
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"Current U.S. politicians are considering paying
#reparations
to black American descendants of slaves at a level they haven’t since the Reconstruction Era. And a
@DukeU
professor is at the helm of the discussion."
@DukeChronicle
@SandyDarity
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Here's what our faculty would look like w/o those born in another country, and/or whose parents/grandparents were immigrants
#Immigration
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Thrilled to congratulate
@RevDrBarber
. He will receive the 2019 North Carolina Award, the state’s highest honor, for building a national grassroots movement to confront and address systemic racism.
Glad he's teaching his methods here, too.
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The National Science Foundation has announced that Prof Nicholas Carnes has received this year’s Alan T. Waterman Award
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Sanford's
@SandyDarity
describes how
#reparations
may affect
#Election2020
@CSPAN
:
#Reparations2020
#reparations
@DukeU
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Congratulations to Professor
@SandyDarity
for making the list as the 35th top Economics influencer to follow 👏 Read more:
#economics
#Influencer
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Congratulations to William A. Darity, Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook professor of public policy, African and African American studies and economics! He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science!
Read the announcement here:
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Dean Kelley announced this morning that Prof.
@DeondraRose
will become the new director of
@PolisAtDuke
starting July 1! Rose has been director of research at Polis since 2019 and is the creator of PolicyLab, among other contributions.
#ncpol
Read more➡️
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For
#Juneteenth2022
we honor those in our community who fight to promote racial equity and ensure
#BlackLivesMatter
– like prof
@SandyDarity
who co-authored a book that breaks down the economic case for
#reparations
for US descendants of the enslaved
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“Early in 2014 when ISIS attacked, other minorities were given options… but when ISIS took over
#Sinjar
in August of 2014, they did not give these options to Yazidis… They wanted to eradicate
#Yazidis
.” -
@NadiaMuradBasee
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ICYMI - rich story on
@CBSSunday
with Prof
@SandyDarity
and
@IrstenKMullen
- they visit what was once one of the largest slaveholding plantations in North Carolina - 30,000 acres - with Sunday Morning contributor Mark Whitaker
#Reparations
#Juneteenth
📺
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$14 trillion. That's the $ in reparations that would help close the racial wealth gap, write Professor
@SandyDarity
and A. Kirsten Mullen in their book "From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century." CNBC interview:
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Congratulations to Professor
@SandyDarity
for being listed as one of the top economic influencers to follow on
#twitter
.
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When we take that [military] oath, what we're saying is, we're willing to die. That's not true of most professions. ... What matters is, we're all Americans. - Gen. Mark Milley
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What a day. 73 received Master of Public Policy degrees, 24 earned Master of International Development Policy degrees, 6 snagged International Master of Environmental Policy degrees, and 5 earned PhD degrees.
#Duke2021
#PubPol2021
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Prof
@SandyDarity
quoted in
@latimes
column saying it's "nonsensical" to think that greater wealth for the rich translates to improved fortunes for everyone else.
@Davidlaz
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The day students from North Carolina's
#Carrboro
High School met visiting 2018
#nobelpeaceprize
laureate
@NadiaMuradBasee
in person -- and took a selfie that they'll remember for a long time. All of the students had read Nadia's book, The Last Girl, before meeting her.
#nced
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Congrats to faculty member
@agpines
, affiliate of
@DukeChildPol
, presented this week with a Mid-career Award from the
@APA
Committee on Children, Youth and Families Division for Outstanding Contributions to Benefit Children, Youth and Families.
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Introducing our PhD job market candidates.
Happier Hours?
For her job market paper, Romina Tomé looks at the impact of closing bars earlier on fetal health. The research focuses on a major metropolitan area in
#Brazil
.
#EconTwitter
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Today we celebrate the largest MPP and PhD cohorts in our history, and the very first recipients of our new *International* Master of Environmental Policy! Also, did you know our Master of Int'l Development fellows hail from 22 countries? 💙 🎓
#PubPol2019
#Duke2019
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President Joe Biden is addressing a joint session of Congress for the first time tonight. Our
@SandyDarity
will provide commentary on
@CBSNews
📺▶️
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A team at Sanford's
@ReportersLab
has been developing a fact-checking app with partners like
@PolitiFact
. They're testing the app during the president's
#SOTU2018
Tuesday. You're invited to help test the app during the speech.
@DukeU
@BillAdairDuke
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Prof Deondra Rose has been named Duke's 2023-24 Presidential Fellow. The program, designed to "empower bold thinkers" prepares promising mid-career faculty members for future leadership roles and engages them in the administration of the university.
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"The racial wealth gap in the US originates with the failure to provide the formerly enslaved with 40 acres while white Americans, including new immigrants, were given 160 acres of land," says Prof.
@SandyDarity
. "Wealth begets wealth and lack of wealth begets lack of wealth."
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ICYMI: Professor
@SandyDarity
gave a
#TEDTalk
called, "A blueprint for reparations in the US." Listen on the
@TEDTalks
podcast: 🎧
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America's history of slavery, segregation, and discrimination has led to a large racial wealth gap says
@trymainelee
in a piece for
@NYTmag
. For the article, Lee consulted our Prof.
@SandyDarity
who has long studied the racial wealth gap. 1/3
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Van Jones - CNN political commentator, 3x
@NYT
bestselling author, and Emmy Award winner - knows what it takes to work in the public sphere.
He's giving the opening keynote this week at our event
#GoodReason2021
with
@KenanEthics
.
Join us:
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Former national security advisor John Bolton to speak here at
@DukeU
🗓️Feb. 17
Tickets are free, but needed
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.
@DonnaShalala
: "The
@ClintonFdn
is helping to reinvent philanthropy to change people's lives in a way that sticks."
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#NewResearch
:
#COVID19
cases in
#India
likely significantly underestimated. In
#Karnataka
, 44.1% of people in rural areas & 53.% in urban regions tested positive. 1/4
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Did you know
@RevDrBarber
and
@wilsonhartgrove
of the
#PoorPeoplesCampaign
are teaching a class at Sanford this fall? Tomorrow morning they will appear on
@amjoyshow
to discuss the religious right wing. Tune in at 11:45am! 📺
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Congratulations to Ph.D. student Ajenai Clemmons, a recipient of the 2021 Samuel DuBois Cook Society Awards!
She was nominated for her scholarship, leadership, and service to communities at Duke and beyond.
Read all about some of her amazing work here➡️
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Congrats to Maria Emilia Undurraga, MIDP '16, who has just been named Chile's next Minster of Agriculture!
Wishing you much success in your new role,
@meryundurraga
! 🎉
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🎧Listen: Prof
@SandyDarity
discusses the possible consequences of the pandemic for low-wage workers on the
@KojoShow
at
@WAMU885
▶️
Prof. Darity was also quoted on
@NPR
,
@NewYorker
, &
@NewRepublic
🔽
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Prof.
@SandyDarity
will speak today in a Congressional hearing to address lending discrimination and its impact on borrowers of color.
Watch here today at 3 PM ▶️
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Good to see our
@donaldhtaylorjr
on
@CNN
tonight talking about the importance of paying attention to nursing homes when combating the spread of
#covid19
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“We have not seen one ISIS member in court being punished for their crimes… Our fear is that this group will not be held accountable, and other groups will feel that they can do the same in the future.” -
@NadiaMuradBasee
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"It matters who has a seat at the table."
Raised by a single mom,
@Nick_Carnes_
creates opportunities for working-class people to serve in public office. His work earned him an
@NSF
Award, the highest honor for early-career scientists
Watch his story ▶️
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Sanford faculty member Manoj Mohanan has been named by Duke University as a Bass Chair in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching and research.
@profmohanan
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“When all this happened to us, I decided to speak because we, as a small community, are disappearing. I felt it was my duty to speak. If nobody speaks about what ISIS does to us, ISIS would get away with their crimes and their crimes towards women.” -
@NadiaMuradBasee
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Emily Pakhtigian's job market paper looks at the causal impact of
#Indonesia
's forest fire emissions on behavior and health. Previous work looks at
#hydropower
and
#Nepal
.
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Congratulations to alum Stefanie Feldman. She's been tapped to be Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the Director of the Domestic Policy Council in the Biden administration
#Inauguration2021
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Congratulations to **Dr.** Ajenai Clemmons (
@PolicyShopLLC
) on defending her dissertation and completing her Ph.D. She will join the faculty at the Univ. of Denver’s Josef Korbel School
@josefkorbel
/
@scrivner_inst
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We're happy to announce
@darrenwalker
, President of the
@FordFoundation
, will give the Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture at Duke University in 2020. Save the date: January 28, 2020!
Check out the recent
@nytimes
profile on Walker:
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New faculty member
@FrankBruni
has been named a Gay Icon of 2021 by the
@EqualityForum
- they coordinate
#LGBTHistoryMonth
(October!)
He also received the Frank Kameny Award for contributions to the cause of gay rights
Acceptance speech:
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October 6th, Professor
@SandyDarity
will be speaking
@TEDxDurhamNC
about his research in the problem of
#inequality
. More Information:
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Nivedhitha Subramanian's job market paper explores women in the labor force. Her research in
#Pakistan
shows receiving information about the gender of a supervisor nearly doubles the chance a woman will apply to a job.
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#Reparations
for slavery: what would that look like, who would benefit and why? Our
@SandyDarity
and co-author A. Kristen Mullen talk in detail about it with
@DavidMartinDavi
@TPRSource
on Texas Public Radio.
⬇️
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Professor
@sandydarity
discusses his job guarantee program on
@Bloomberg
News. The idea is being taken up by leading Democratic politicians.
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🎇Exciting news for Sanford, the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy and the
@DukeU
community!
#DukeJournalism
📰⬇️
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Have you heard the new episode of
@WaysMeansShow
?
#Reparations
has been a big topic for candidates in the
#2020
primary election. In this episode,
@SandyDarity
talks about how it could happen, then we talk to a man who traced his family back to slavery.
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New book makes the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery.
#Juneteenth
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BIG NEWS:
@DukeU
@ReportersLab
receives $1.2 million grant for automated
#factchecking
initiative. Full story here:
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Sixty years after riots in many American cities, the
#RacialWealthGap
is still a problem and it may have gotten worse.
#inequality
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@WSJ
takes a look at the work of
@SandyDarity
and
@DarrickHamilton
who have written over 50 articles together on the
#RacialWealthGap
and
#Reparations
. Now, their work is shaping the debates in the
@DNC
primary election.
@DukeU
@OhioState
⬇️
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Congrats to faculty member Carolyn Barnes on her first book!
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Congratulations to our
@SandyDarity
for being named in
@politico
's list of top 50 ideas blowing up American politics
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This should be fantastic -
@WajahatAli
reflecting on 20 years since
#September11th
In person
@DukeU
or online ⬇️
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We are excited to welcome Margaret Sullivan,
@washingtonpost
columnist and former
@nytimes
public editor, as the 2023 Pamela and Jack Egan Visiting Professor!
@Sulliview
@Duke_DeWitt
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10 years
@PolitiFact
, 10 years
#PantsOnFire
! Congratulations to PolitiFact's founder, our very own
@BillAdairDuke
! 🎉
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Congratulations to faculty member William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr. - he has been named a Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association (AEA)
▶️
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Vicki Bogan is tapped to be director of graduate studies of Duke Sanford's Master of Public Policy (MPP) program. She joined the Sanford School from Cornell as prof of economics and works with the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
▶️
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This should be a terrific event! Features
@SandyDarity
and
@IrstenKMullen
co-authors of the oh-so-important book "From Here to Equality; Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century."
🗓️ 10/28, 6 p.m.
Register 🔽
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Congrats to Sanford's Jay Pearson and our Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, represented by Indermit Gill -- both recognized today from
@naspaa
for work, research, and teaching in the areas of
#Diversity
and
#SocialJustice
.
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A message from our faculty: we're all in these Zoom classes together.
We can't wait to have you back for the fall semester!
@DeondraRose
@EricMlynPhD
@KAGoss
@aantepli
@hdsper01
@sopolicyscholar
@rogerson
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Fifth-year
#PublicPolicy
PhD candidate Ajenai Clemmons (
@PolicyShopLLC
) studies important factors that help and harm
#police
-
#community
relations.
@womenalsoknow
|
@DukeSocialEQ
|
@DukeU
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Congratulations to Jay Pearson! He has been appointed to a new endowed professorship. His research, teaching and advocacy address how policy-sponsored, structurally rooted social inequality influence health inequities
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Congratulations to Sanford faculty
@aantepli
, Kenneth Dodge and
@Sulliview
- all inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences this weekend. 🎉
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🎂Happy birthday to us!
2019 marks our 10th as a school at
@DukeU
! Here are the 10 biggest changes we've seen in that time. Take a look:
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"The U.S. has the capacity to pay for anything it wants to pay for. Overnight, we generated $2.3 trillion. It costs $10 trillion to close the black wealth gap. If done over the course of 10 years, it’s clearly financially manageable."
-Professor
@SandyDarity
@DukeSocialEQ
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Thursday - the author of this riveting book speaks on campus. Maria Ressa won the Nobel Peace Prize. Her work shows "how the creep towards authoritarianism around the world has been aided and abetted by social media companies." Join us!
▶️RSVP:
#Duke100
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A panel of federal judges calls NC's redistricting
#gerrymandering
. Is it possible to draw a fair map? A new NC congressional map was drawn in a bipartisan way before, by a panel of retired judges.
#ncpol
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🎇Exciting news! A $10 million award from
@DukeEndowment
will support graduate fellowships, professorships and strategic investments in school priorities
@DukeU
President Vincent E. Price announced today.
⬇️
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Congratulations to
@DeondraRose
- a Sanford prof and director of
@PolisAtDuke
, she has been recognized by Duke for excellence in undergraduate teaching and research
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So, wow. HBO’s
@LastWeekTonight
with
@iamjohnoliver
featured Duke cyber policy fellow Justin Sherman’s research on data brokers — the multibillion-dollar, virtually unregulated industry of buying and selling your data.
@jshermcyber
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Michael Sorrell is president of Paul Quinn College, and he has turned the historically black institution in Dallas into what he calls “an engine of social mobility.”
#DukeSanfordAlumni
#DukeAlumni
#ForeverDuke
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"To confront the outrageous American distribution of wealth, we contend that every child should be given a trust fund, not just the children of the rich." -
@SandyDarity
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Here's a peek at our very first "in-person" class of the academic year. Master of Public Policy students - some in the room, some remote. All passionate about making a difference.
💙Prof. Mac McCorkle/803 Policy Analysis
#BackToSchool2020
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Public Policy is one of the top majors at
@DukeU
! Why? For Ysanne Spence, it's about enacting positive change in her home country, Jamaica.
Find out more about the public policy undergraduate degree!
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A warm and big WELCOME to all new and returning Sanford students! We are so excited to begin the process of welcoming all of our students to the Sanford School for the new academic year (and 50 years of public policy at Duke!) 💙
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Exciting opportunity for Sanford alumni based in
#NYC
. Mingle with one of Sanford's superstar faculty members, William "Sandy" Darity. Hear more about his work on reparations for slavery and wealth inequality.
🗓️Thursday, September 26
RSVP ➡️
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In addition to great microbrews made with local ingredients,
@fullsteam
was co-founded by a Duke MPP/ MBA grad, Sean Lilly Wilson. Oh the places a MPP degree will take you!
#HappyAnniversary
@DukeU
@DukeFuqua
@apsiainfo
Today
@fullsteam
is celebrating their 8th anniversary! Back in 2010, Fullsteam was a big part of
#Durham
’s revitalization and the growth of NC’s craft beer scene.
Here’s to many more anniversaries ahead! Cheers! 🍻
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Mark your calendars!!
Looking forward to my chat
@DukeU
with
@WajahatAli
about the past 20 years - a lot to talk about.
@DukeSanford
- Thursday, Sept. 9
@5PM
.
#911Anniversary
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Professor
@SandyDarity
's research helps to make
#Reparations
a reality:
@DukeU
@DukeChildPol
@PolisAtDuke
@nytimes
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Kate Bundorf, a health economist who studies health care systems, recently joined
@DukeSanford
as the S. Malcolm Gillis Distinguished Professor of Public Policy. She is also an affiliate of the
@DukeMargolis
Center of Health Policy.
Read more about her⬇️
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Congratulations to Simon Miles and Susan Colbourn on being awarded a two-year grant from the Stanton Foundation!
Read more here:
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"Terrorism cannot prevail if we refuse to be terrorized." -
@DHSgov
Sec. Johnson
#DHSatDuke
@duke_ags
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Inauguration 1 Year Ago Today! So honored to serve all 8.5 million Virginians as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth. We’ve already accomplished so much, and the best is yet to come!
#WeRiseTogether
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ICYMI - We are celebrating 50 years of public policy at Duke! Did you know, one of the Sanford School's founders is still working on campus as a professor?! Joel Fleishman says the choice to teach in one spot for 50 years is simple: "I love what I'm doing."
#ForeverDuke
💙
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Saying goodbye to a Sanford School treasure. Pam Ladd has worked at
@DukeU
since 1976. She started in then-President Terry Sanford's office. Then she worked for Prof. Joel Fleishman for 37 years.
#ForeverDuke
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Introducing the 2022 Terry Sanford Leadership Award winners. Olivia Reneau and Shrey Majmudar exercised very different approaches to leadership on campus. Both made a big difference.
📺
#Duke2022
#PubPol2022
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