By Thalia Halloran This post is part of a series called Profiles in Leadership, chronicling the extraordinary endeavors of Hart students during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Lily Levin (SOL ’20, Trinity ’23) leapt to action the minute the COVID-19 crisis affected Duke. When Levin, a first-year, heard that Duke was closing down campus and switching…
read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all areas of life, raising many pressing social issues to the fore. Students in one HLP course course have designed infographics tackling to engage the public about these concerns. The original goal of the assignment was for students to hone visual communication skills by creating a graphic that would persuade…
read moreBy Thalia Halloran This post is the first in a series called Profiles in Leadership, chronicling the extraordinary endeavors of Hart students during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Margaret Gaw (SOL ’20, Trinity ’22) has risen above and beyond since the COVID-19 crisis hit Duke. Gaw, an English major and Chemistry minor, worked with Catherine McMillan…
read moreA new podcast produced by a Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL) student highlights the complexities of identity in Israel. For his SOL project last summer, Junior Andrew Carlins traveled to Israel to learn about the many identities of its people. He focused particularly on immigrants from Africa. Carlins and his friend, Grant Besner, then recorded…
read moreSOL student Amelia Steinbach, Trinity '21, published an op-ed in the Washington Post about her summer research. Steinbach used her SOL funding to work in the Washington, D.C. office of Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawai'i, where she studied the the lack of diversity among the Senate Judiciary Committee's expert witnesses. The project involved both quantitative…
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