The Hart Leadership Program is excited to announce our 2023 Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL) Fellows’ immersive summer experiences. As part of the SOL process, students work with community partner organizations either as interns or deeply embedded community-based researchers. The 2023 SOL cohort is learning about direct community engagement through hands-on experience working with organizations […]
Former SOL Fellow Chitra Balakrishnan (T’21) has been awarded the Ole R. Holsti Prize for excellence in undergraduate research using primary sources for political science or public policy. The awards are distributed by the Duke University Libraries to recognize orginial research and writing of Duke students and encouraging the use of library resources. Balakrishnan’s winning […]
Jessie Xu (SOL ’20/PPS ’22) has been named a Schwarzman Scholar. The Schwarzman Scholarship is a fully-funded, one-year master’s degree and leadership program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China that helps scholars respond to the geopolitical landscape of the 21st century. Jessie, a public policy major, hails from West Hartford Conneticut. On campus, she helped […]
Aditya Santoki (SOL ’19) and faculty advisor Sanford professor Nathan Boucher recently published an article in the North Carolina Medical Journal examining barriers to vaccination in Durham County’s vulnerable adult populations. This article stems from research Santoki conducted through his community based research (CBR) project supported by SOL funding in summer 2019. Santoki interviewed fifty-four patients […]
Former SOL student Quinn Smith (T’23/PPS’23) is one of two recipients of the Udall Scholarship, which recognizes students who have demonstrated a commitment to careers in the environment or Native American tribal public policy. Hailing from Albuquerque, NM and a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Quinn is only one of nine students awarded the Udall […]