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…
read moreJessie 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…
read moreAditya 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…
read moreFormer 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…
read moreOn November 1st, Chapelboro - a local radio and news network - published Enrique Latoni's (T'21) Op-Ed discussing the U.S.'s minimum wage debate and important issues to consider moving forward. Enrique is currently enrolled in PPS 270: Lead the Way Durham, taught by HLP Associate Director, Lalita Kaligotla. He wrote this op-Ed for a course…
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