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Story / Video Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle

Even as a little girl, Shawnee Garrick knew that diabetes had a grip on her family. Her grandmother died because of health complications from the disease; so did her grandfather. Her parents were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes a year apart.

May 5, 2016 | Lin B. Hollowell III

Story / Video Weaving a Safety Net of Hope

Weaving a Safety Net of Hope

On a warm day in late winter, a dozen teens take turns behind a wheelbarrow, filling it with rich compost and pushing it across a bumpy field. They are laughing and sweating, and before the afternoon sun slips away, they have six community garden beds ready for spring planting.

June 18, 2014 | Kristen R. Richardson-Frick

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Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship Program

View this Duke University video for an inside look at the man behind the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship Program.

April 21, 2014

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Sowing a Passion for Science

Laura Thompson doesn’t walk from her office to the classroom, she dashes. In conversations, her train of thought jumps the tracks, careening from one topic of interest to another. When she says she wakes at 6 eager for another day of work, you believe her.

December 9, 2013 |

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The Thriving Rural Communities Initiative

An effort between The Duke Endowment, Duke Divinity School and North Carolina's two United Methodist conferences is supporting churches in rural communities.

September 5, 2013 | Robert R. Webb III