The Duke University Student Leadership and Service Awards April 21st, Washington Duke Inn 1 Order of Program Please be seated, we will begin at 6pm Hosts for the Evening Phillip McClure, T’16 Dinner Menu Savanna Hershman, P’17 Salad Baby Field Greens, Poached Pears, Spiced Welcome Walnuts, Champagne Vanilla Dressing Dinner Rolls Freshly Brewed Iced Tea Address by Steve Nowicki, Ph.D. Dean of Undergraduate Education Chicken entrée: Grilled Breast of Chicken, Maple Scented Award Presentations Sweet Potato, Pencil Asparagus, Morel Julie Anne Levey Memorial Leadership Mushroom Sauce Award This meal is free of gluten and dairy Class of 2017 Awards Baldwin Scholars Unsung Heroine Award or Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award Vegan entrée: Butternut, Acorn and Spaghetti Squash, Your Three Words Video Golden Quinoa, Arugula, Carrots, Asparagus, Sweet Potato Puree Additional Recognition This meal is free of gluten and dairy Award Presentations Dessert Reception on the Patio Lars Lyon Volunteer Service Award Chocolate Whoopie Pie Trio Leading at Duke Leadership and Service Gourmet Cookies Awards Vegan Dessert: Cashew Cheesecake Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award Regular & Decaffeinated Coffee and William J. Griffith University Service Assorted Hot Tea Award Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership and Service Awards 2 Closing 1 Julie Anne Levey Memorial Leadership Award The Presenters Lisa Beth Bergene, Ph.D. Associate Dean, Housing, Dining and Residence Life Daniel Flowers Residence Coordinator, Southgate and Gilbert-Addoms The Award The Julie Anne Levey Memorial Leadership Award is presented to an emerging leader in the first-year class who has demonstrated a dedication to the first-year residential experience and the Duke community through leadership in co-curricular activities (house council, house philanthropy Award activities, East Campus Council, Duke Student Government, service learning or community service with peers, or other involvement), and who has demonstrated initiative, creativity, and a clear commitment to making a difference in the lives of his/her peers. Julie Anne Levey’s (Duke ‘93) wide range of interests, activities, and friends created a powerful influence on the Duke community. Julie’s family - Lewis, Leslee, Jon, Caryn, Stephen, and Stephanie Presentations - believe that the award is a significant way to acknowledge and remember Julie and her gifts perpetually. The award is consistent with her objectives of continually expanding and improving upon one’s experiences, knowledge, interests, capabilities, and relationships. The Nominees Hala Daou Rinzin Dorjee Steve Soto Gary Yeh 2 3 Class of 2017 Awards Class of 2017 Awards The Presenters Spirit Award Emily Cohen, Nominees The Class of 2017 Spirit Award is awarded to a first-year East Campus Council Representative Phoebe Donovan student who has exceeded the role of a typical student in Elena Elliott, supporting fellow students in athletic, community, and club East Campus Council Representative activities. The Awards Students of the Class of 2017 were invited to nominate their peers for several awards. These Service Award Nominees awards are intended to recognize and honor the achievements of students in their first year at The Class of 2017 Service Award honors the first-year student Carlton Adams Duke. who has shown the highest commitment to service within the Elena Baldwin Duke community and the broader Durham community. Rinzin Dorjee Innovation Award James Ferencsik Nominees The Class of 2017 Innovation Award honors the first-year Will Floyd-Jones student whose work has been characterized by exceptional Leo Lou Advocacy Award ingenuity and inventiveness in the spirit of creating new Nominees The Class of 2017 Advocacy Award honors the first-year ideas. Amina Bility student who has demonstrated outstanding effort in the Tina Chen promotion of a cause of social justice (Environment, Gender Raul Buelvas Award Rinzin Dorjee Nominees Diversity, Sexual Orientation, Race). The Raul Buelvas Award is offered in loving memory of Raul Lauren Shum Anna Bensley Buelvas, a member of the Class of 2015 who exemplified Rinzin Dorjee honor, optimism, selflessness, and love for the community. The Lauren Hagedorn award is bestowed upon the first-year student who best Ben Hoover exercises these qualities. Raina Kishan Aishu Nag Beatrice Pepera Basil Seif 4 5 Baldwin Scholars Unsung Heroine Award Baldwin Scholars Unsung Heroine Award The Presenters Karmyn McKnight, P’13 Leilani Doktor “Working in the beginning stages and development of Girls Engineering Change, Karmyn was Baldwin Scholars Class of 2014 fundamental in starting the non-profit group that works to decrease the gender gap in engineering. Anna Koelsch Both on Duke’s campus as a member of the Women’s Housing Option and fighting for women’s Baldwin Scholars Class of 2014 issues, and off campus with her work in GEC, Karmyn acts as a champion for women’s issues.” The Award The Unsung Heroine Award recognizes a woman who has demonstrated extraordinary dedication to issues that face women at Duke or in the larger community, but whose efforts have not received Hanna Metaferia, T’14 formal recognition. This award is given annually by the Baldwin Scholars program. “Hanna, as the editor of Develle Dish, has worked tirelessly in the past year to create workshops, safe space, and a certain freedom for women to express themselves. I have seen her make tough The nominees editorial decisions and stand firmly behind her choices, her writers and her responsibility in order Caroline Kiritsy, P’14 to pave a path that would open up avenues of intervention for her peers. She has offered insight “Caroline approached her coach to talk about tensions she felt within the team related to issues that has been instrumental in encouraging her peers to keep writing, keep speaking their truths of sexual orientation and gender identity. Caroline had heard teammates making homophobic and continue to seek ways of intervention for those who are voiceless. Hanna is more than a game and heterosexist remarks on several occasions. She advocated strongly with her coach that the changer. She restructures the entire landscape.” team receive some sensitivity training in order to educate the team and stop the hurtful, divisive comments. In this endeavor, Caroline has helped over fifty women at Duke become better educated about and aware of issues of gender and sexuality that will serve them very well as they move beyond Duke.” Alexandria Lattimore, T’14 “During membership recruitment for the sororities and selective living groups, Lexy [in her capacity as an RA] had the foresight to plan activities and events that would support those women who did not get selected to join one of these groups. These activities were open to everyone on the hall and they were quite upbeat and almost celebratory. She knew what to do and when to do it in order to properly support her residents.” 6 7 Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Awards Awards The Presenters The nominees Betsy Alden, D.Min. Nicole Daniels Emeritus Service-Learning Coordinator Nicholas Grace Leah Mische David Malone, Ph.D. Noha Sherif Faculty Director, Service-Learning Program Jacob Tobia Associate Professor of the Practice, Program in Education Katharine Waldman The Student Award THE FACULTY AWARD And Community Partner Awards A “founding mother” of the service-learning movement, Betsy Alden began combining learning Faculty members and community partners are recognized for meaningful integration of the service and service in the 1980s. Since then, she has done it all: created and taught service-learning experience with course content, commitment to the academic and personal development of Duke courses; forged community partnerships; recruited, inspired, and mentored faculty and students; students, ongoing commitment to the needs of community partners (for faculty), collaboration with developed and administered campus service-learning programs; and championed service-learning Duke students and faculty members (for community partners), impact of community partnerships through publications, lectures, workshops, and service on national boards. In the ten years she at Duke and in the local community, and involvement in the service-learning community at Duke. worked at Duke, service-learning evolved under her leadership from an obscure pedagogy used by a handful of faculty to a vibrant cross- disciplinary practice. Sponsored by the Service-Learning Program at Duke, the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service- The Recipients Learning awards recognize one graduating senior, one faculty member, and one community Maha Houssami, Arabic Instructor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies partner for their outstanding leadership, impact, and commitment to the ideals of service- Heidi Carter, Chair, Board of Education, Durham Public Schools learning. The following student nominees are to be commended for their leadership, initiative, or ongoing commitment to academic service-learning; and the quality of their reflections about the service-learning experience. 8 9 Duke Student Government Awards The Paul Edwin Harner Award The Paul Edwin Harner Award (named for the ASDU 1985 Speaker of the Senate), is awarded to a member of the Duke Student Government who has shown a strong commitment to the well-being of Duke University by providing strong, consistent leadership and dedication to the Duke Student Government throughout his undergraduate years and has been exemplary in service to the Duke