Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholar Youmna Sherif is recognized for “giving more of herself to service-learning related to aging at Duke University” than any other student in Dr. Debby Gold’s 25 years on the Duke Sociology Faculty. Youmna Sherif self-designed a Program II degree focusing on the bio-psycho-social aspects of chronic illness in older adulthood, motivated in part by taking all four of Professor Gold’s service-learning courses: Adulthood and Aging, Death and Dying,
Phi Beta Kappa inducted 181 Duke students during a ceremony in Page Auditorium, on Thursday, May 10. Read the Duke Today article and watch the video.
Parents, inductees and Duke faculty share the joys of the Phi Beta Kappa Induction ceremony in this video.
Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and largest academic honor society, was founded on December 5, 1776 by five students at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Since then,
Seventy students from across the nation and the world will join Duke’s class of 2016 as members of OUSF’s merit scholarship programs. I congratulate all of you on your:
Great choice! Duke will not disappoint you!
Great potential! You will not disappoint Duke!
Great futures! As leaders in a wonderful variety of fields!
And this comes from someone who is not a friend of the exclamation point!
