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Helping Duke Give Back to the World
Duke alum Leslie Graves has known about Duke’s mission to provide life-changing cancer care since she was a teenager. Her father was a childhood friend of legendary cancer surgeon William Shingleton, MD, when the two were growing up in eastern North Carolina.
$50K Gift Enables New Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Opportunities
In August 2020, the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences received a $50,000 unrestricted gift from an anonymous donor through the Rhode Island Foundation. Department leadership decided to use the gift to support pilot research projects focused on health disparities and work led by faculty members who are underrepresented in medicine, as well as other departmental initiatives to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and dismantle racism.
An Extra Birthday
The color blue and butterflies always make Jamie Cooper Moales think of her late sister, Sara Elizabeth Cooper.

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