Headshots of the 2023 LAPI Fellows from left to right: Oliver Hess, Olivia Rosner, and Melody Tzang

The 2023 Leadership and Arts Policy Internship (LAPI) fellows are Oliver Hess, Olivia Rosner, and Melody Tzang. All three rising juniors will engage in internships at the intersection of creativity and leadership. Oliver (pictured left), a Public Policy and Art History double major, will be interning in his hometown of St. Petersburg, Florida with the […]

Headshots of the 2023 Sanford Award winners, from left: Alex Hoffman and Quinn C. Smith

Congratulations to Alex Hoffman (PEP Fellow 2022-23) and Quinn C. Smith (Hart Fellow 2023-24, SOL Fellow 2020), this year’s winners of the Terry Sanford Leadership Award! This award is presented annually to 1-2 graduating Public Policy majors recognizing their achievement in leadership. Students are nominated by faculty and staff and voted on by the faculty […]

Headshots of the 2023-24 Hart Fellows, from left to right: Sophia Chimbanda, Ayesham Khan, and Quinn C. Smith

The Hart Leadership Program has announced the 2023-2024 Hart Fellows: Sophia Chimbanda, Ayesham Khan and Quinn C. Smith. All three will engage in a self-designed fellowship experience, conducting their own community-based research projects and providing direct service to their host communities. Since 1995, 113 graduating seniors or recent Duke graduates have been awarded the Hart […]

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 […]

Caroline Avery, PPS ’22, is looking to create a new generation of civic leaders through her PEP Fellows project. The PEP Fellows program, an undergraduate experience offered through the Hart Leadership Program and Polis, provides students with resources to explore democracy in depth. This past year, students in the PEP Fellows program took on the […]