Expanding Access, Extending Impact: How the CTL Helped Bring a Duke Course to High School Classrooms Nationwide

Gustavo Silva, Jack H. Neely Associate Professor of Biology, shares insights from teaching his new course, Biology 132: Our Protein-Rich World, to first-year Duke students as well as 250 students in Title 1 high schools through the Duke+NEON partnership.

The Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and the Duke Center for Community-Engaged Scholarship (DCCES) have awarded three 12-month grants for community-engaged research on housing and economic well-being in Durham and the surrounding region.

Medical education has to prepare healthcare practitioners to use new, constantly evolving technologies. A Cook Center team is investigating how nursing programs in the US are integrating education on healthcare technologies into their curricula.