Duke University School of Medicine’s Black Employee Resource Group, called ME², held its second annual Juneteenth celebration at the Trent Semans Center for Health Education on June 15. ME² stands for Motivate, Mentor, Educate, & Empower. A total of 85 employees gathered in the Great Hall to hear keynote speaker Coral May, MPA, SHRM-SCP, director of the School of Medicine’s Human Resources Service Center. The theme was “Raising Your Standards.”
Chantell Evans is one of 31 inaugural recipients of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Freeman Hrabowsky Scholarships, a new award of up to $8.6M over 10 years for outstanding early career faculty dedicated to EDI.
The move is likely to heighten fears among advocates of academic freedom in the state who worry that the governor is bent on curtailing professors’ speech in the classroom.