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Summer 2020

ISSUE

In 1967, protesters confront federal troops in Newark

From the editor: A look back at the Kerner Report

Protests sparked by police actions. Anxiety over (invented) outside agitators. “Lawand- order” leaders drawn into competing crises.

A pipeline for problem-solving

by Scott Huler

Duke has one surprising place to look for its quick response to the COVID-19 pandemic: the Ebola outbreak of 2014-15.

Q&A: Health policy expert Mark McClellan on the pandemic

by Interview by Robert J. Bliwise

Mark McClellan is the founding director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration What does the fall season look like with the coronavirus?

Retta, Class of 1992, helps give a message for our times

by Scott Huler

People who watched A Parks and Recreation Special, the one-off reunion show about the TV series’ characters coping with the COVID-19 lockdown (it ran in early May), knew they were seeing something remarkable.

George Graham, Terry-Rene Wiesner Brown, John Gromada

The beauty of a network

by Christina Holder

Samantha Lowe was hoping to spend her summer at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

A note from the publisher

by Mychal Harrison

Getting what she deserves, professionally

by Craig D. Lindsey

One day, a male peer pulled Lauren Hasson ’04 aside and complained to her about how little he was making.

Alumnus helps close the 'homework gap'

by Adrienne Johnson Martin

Years before COVID-19 turned the educational world topsy-turvy, Douglas Michelman ’82 was concerned about the “homework gap.” Michelman had joined Sprint as the chief communications officer in 2014, and because his portfolio included corporate res

Black Duke employees and white Duke employees, segregated at 1946 holiday party

Let's embrace Duke's entire history

by Valerie Gillispie

I am writing two weeks after the murder of George Floyd, as protests against white supremacy take place across the country. Many Americans are reckoning with the impact of racism, especially as it relates to American history.

Work in progress

by Fati Abubakar

From the minute I arrived in the United States from Nigeria as an international student, my instinct was to look for an African community—a restaurant, a mosque, an association.