Crystal Dixon

Professor’s Scholarship Aims to Address Equity and Inclusion

For Crystal Dixon, diversity and inclusion cannot exist without equity. In 2019, she was appointed by the dean as chair of HHS’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee – her first task? Including the word “equity” in the title. She wanted to ensure the committee was embracing the concept of equity… Continue reading…

Bob Strack

The Post-Covid World Will Find Us All In This Together

With the COVID-19 virus we as a nation were told to go home, to social distance, to stay away from each other…and yet…we frequently heard the phrase “We are all in this together”.  A bonding of our human tribe during a profound moment in human history.  A moment when we truly came face to face with the reality that, yes, we really ARE all in this together. Curious isn’t it?

Kelley Massengale, graduate researcher

Changing lives. One diaper at a time.

Kelley Massengale was having a cup of coffee in downtown Durham when she noticed a donation box for the Diaper Bank of North Carolina. She had never heard of the organization. Nor had many others, judging by a handwritten sign on the wall. It urged people not to drop dirty diapers in the box.