Before it was the Durham Center for Senior Life (DCSL), the nonprofit was known as the Golden Age Society. Founded in 1949, the Golden Age Society focused on social gatherings as they coordinated neighborhood social clubs for Durham’s elderly residents. Today, the DCSL offers various services aimed at advancing the well-being of adults 55 and older living in Durham and is located in downtown Durham with two satellite locations, one in the JFK Memorial Towers in Durham and the other in the Little River Community Complex in Bahama, NC.

DUHS leadership has expressed how grateful they are to all DUSON volunteers who have staffed the employee and community vaccine clinics during the past three weeks. In December, our faculty, staff and student volunteers worked a total of 21 vaccine clinic shifts and 25 so far in January!

The need for volunteers to serve in RN and non-RN roles is growing significantly, since Duke is continuing to ramp up vaccine clinics in both the Durham and Raleigh communities. Large scale vaccinations will continue at Duke for many months to come.

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Dean's Office will present "Racial Justice Committees Town Hall" on January 27 from 1 to 2 p.m. EST.

A Duke Health & SingHealth - Duke-NUS AMC joint webinar series, "Adaptation and Innovation Across the Pacific in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic" will continue with "Part 2- Research - from Bench to Bedside/Community." The session will be February 2 from 8:15 to 9:30 p.m. (SGT) for those in Singapore and from 7:15 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. (EST) for those in the U.S. 

Register now. 

The DUSON website is one of our most powerful communication vehicles. In 2020, more than 1.6 million people visited the DUSON website, and nearly 50 percent did so on a mobile device or tablet.

DUSON’s presence on the internet is necessary to our mission. Nearly all requests for a web presence from faculty, staff and students can be accommodated within the main website and follow University, Health System and School brand standards and web architecture.

DUSON was featured in the "A Brief History of the Duke University School of Nursing" article by Phoebe Politt for the Winter 2021 edition of the Tar Heel Nurse. The publication is produced by the North Carolina Nurses Association, of which Politt is a member and Nursing History Council co-chair.

In recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s.

Duke-Margolis addresses critical health policy challenges with innovative, evidence-based solutions to improve health and the value of health care. Their interdisciplinary approach brings students and faculty from Duke’s schools of medicine, nursing, law, public policy, business, and engineering together with policy experts, researchers, and health care professionals across the country to work together on focused projects that make a difference.

Jacqueline Nikpour, PhD student, submitted a grant to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her post-doc. It is a grant that is meant for RWJF Future of Nursing Scholars to attain supplemental funding to continue their research in their postdoctoral position. Her post-doc will be at the University of Pennsylvania.