Teamwork/Diversity Awards
Winners of the Diversity Award and Teamwork Award for 2007 were honored by Duke University and Health System leaders
during a luncheon Nov. 1. The Diversity Award recognizes faculty or staff members who demonstrate, through positive
interactions with others, a respect and value for differing backgrounds and points of view at Duke.
The Teamwork Award honors employees who collaborate and work together on a project or significant effort that advances departmental
goals and/or Duke's mission. In addition to university staff recognized, a Diversity Award was presented to Dr.
Delbert R.Wigfall, associate professor, Pediatrics, Nephrology. Members of Duke Medicine's Clinical Research Committee
Team received the Teamwork Award.
Gregory Duncan
Diversity Award
Gregory F. Duncan
Associate Dean of Student Services
Duke University Divinity School
In 1990, Duncan launched Project BRI(DDD)GE (Building Relationships In Durham through Duke Divinity Graduate Education).
The project is a week-long, pre-orientation program for entering students that seeks to nurture Christian outreach in Durham.
"Dean Duncan has consistently pushed the boundaries of the Divinity School's student life programs, setting about deliberately
to create and nurture a variety of initiatives that make diversity a way of life for all of us in our community, not only students,
but also faculty, staff and administrators...He has taught our students that the words and concepts they study in class...are not
academic abstractions but something to be...made real in the world."
—Nominators, Connie Mitchell Shelton and Joseph Shelton,
Co-Directors, Field Education; Cheryl Brown, Director, Admissions;
Sally Bates, Chaplain; Sheila Williams, Director, Financial Aid.
Teamwork Award
The DukeEngage Team (Zoila Airall, Betsy Alden, James Belvin, Alma Blount, Tony Brown, Sheila Curran, Susan M. Kauffman,
Elaine Madison, Sam Miglarese, Eric J. Mlyn, Margaret Riley, James Roberts, Cheri Ross, David Schaad, Lee Willard)
The DukeEngage Team comprises of 15 inter-departmental members who created a ground-breaking program that enables
undergraduates to apply classroom learning to addressing societal issues at home and abroad.
"The result of their work is what we now know as DukeEngage and the Duke Center for Civic Engagement...Just within a
few months of its debut, 90 students have already engaged in internships in the U.S., Yemen, Tanzania, India and Kenya.
Moreover, DukeEngage has come to be widely viewed as a national model for integrated service and the undergraduate experience."
—Nominator, Provost Peter Lange
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