Several DUSON faculty and staff recently volunteered their time at TROSA during their COVID vaccination clinic. The clinic provided the second dose of the COVID vaccine to 200 of their residents and staff.

As part of the 2021 Health Professions Education Day, Duke AHEAD and Duke IPEC will present March Education Grand Rounds: Innovation Grant Presentations, where attendants where learn more about the exciting projects faculty have developed as part of the Duke AHEAD and IPEC Center grants. This event includes brief presentations from our Principal Investigators. Register online. 

Ryan Shaw, associate professor, will be the presenter of University of Buffalo School of Nursing's 24th Annual Bonnie Bullough Lecture on April 16. 

PhD students Amnazo Muhirwa and Lesley Rink have received awards for their Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) Small Grant proposals. 

Amnazo Muhirwa

Registration is now open for 2021 Education Day! Join us virtually on March 12 from 9 a.m. to 1:15 pm. This year's theme is "The COVID Effect: Teaching, Leading & Caring During Challenging Times." Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, of Family Medicine and Community Health, is the keynote speaker.

Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship is now accepting applications for the Duke Incubation Fund (the "Fund"), which now provides up to $40K per project of seed funding for early-stage technologies and ideas at Duke with potential for commercialization.

The DUSON Student Success Center is partnering with Koru teachers, Jacquelyn McMillian-Bohler, assistant professor, and Lesley Rink, PhD student, to offer a DUSON Koru Mindfulness course! The four-week course will be held on Tuesdays, March 16, 23, 30, and April 6 from 4 to 5:15 p.m., exclusively for DUSON students, staff and faculty!

After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife. Join DUSON Student Council for a Zoom screening of Disney and Pixar's "Soul" on March 5 at 7 p.m.!

Duke Civic Engagement is administering several awards to recognize outstanding community engagement among members of the Duke community.