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GIRI Students Present Research at NC Global Health Alliance Conference

Last week, two Cook Center students from the spring 2024 Global Inequality Research Initiative (GIRI) seminar, Elena Granowsky and Lauren Tse, delivered a poster presentation on their research project at the North Carolina Global Health Alliance Conference in Raleigh. Their research “Do Elderly Men and Women Experience Grief Differently?,” which was completed as a capstone […]

The Black Reparations Project – 2024 American Book Fest Award Winner in Social Change Category

The American Book Fest announced the winners and finalists of the 21st Annual Best Book Awards (BBA), one of the world’s largest international book award programs for mainstream, indie, and self-published titles. Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 100 categories. Awards were presented for titles published in 2020-2024. The Black Reparations Project: […]

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Faculty Affiliate Kristen Cooksey Stowers Discusses Food Insecurity in UConn Today

Faculty Affiliate Kristen Cooksey Stowers, assistant professor in the department of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut, was recently featured in a UConn Today article about her research on women of color living in a food swamp in North Hartford. Dr. Cooksey Stowers was the senior author on a study in the Journal […]

Henry McKoy quoted in North Carolina State University student newspaper on energy

Faculty Affiliate Henry McKoy, the senior advisor to the undersecretary for the U.S. Office of Science and Innovation, was quoted in a student article about NC State’s fifth annual Energy Week. Dr. McKoy was present to lead a conversation and workshop. “I’ve always connected sustainability to the ability of something to persist and sustain over time,” […]

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Founding Director William A. Darity awarded the Inaugural William Spriggs Memorial Award by the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

The Cook Center is pleased to announce that Founding Director, Dr. William A. Darity  Jr. has been awarded the William Spriggs Memorial Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management! This award honors the life of  a trailblazer in economics and labor policy, William Spriggs. Spriggs served as a chief economist of the […]

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Jean Beaman giving lecture at Centre for Migration Studies at University of British Columbia

Faculty Affiliate Jean Beaman is set to give a lecture for the second event in the Centre for Migration Studies at University of British Columbia speaker series on Migration, Racialization, and Inequality. She will present her talk, “Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-Belonging in Plural Societies” in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. This event […]

Keisha Bentley-Edwards work on the Research Equity and Diversity Initiative (READI)

Together, the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, and Duke University Health System launched a new initiative in 2021 aimed at achieving increased access to and equitable representation in clinical research. Cook Center Associate Director of Research and Core Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley Edwards has worked as a co-director with […]

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Adam Hollowell named one of 12 finalists for Judith Deckers Prize at Duke

The Cook Center is proud to announce that Core Faculty and Director of the Inequality Studies Minor Adam Hollowell has been named one of 12 finalists for Judith Deckers Prize at Duke! The Judith Deckers Prize is a recently established award at Duke University that recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching. It aims to celebrate and promote outstanding […]

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Carliss Chatman delivered a keynote address at the 2024 German Law Journal Symposium

On October 11th, the 2024 German Law Journal Symposium: Legal Personhood featured a keynote address by Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman.  Chatman is a Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. The title of Professor Chatman’s address was “The Battle for Global Human Rights: Super Persons vs. Partial Persons.” The symposium brings […]

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Prentiss Dantzler Quoted About Housing Injustice in Canada

Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Dr. Prentiss Dantzler, Director of the Housing Justice Lab at the University of Toronto, contributed to a recent article discussing Canada’s housing crisis and how immigrants are unfairly blamed. He emphasized that the housing crisis has been ongoing for years and that politicians often use immigrants as scapegoats instead of addressing […]