noted. WHAT AN HONOR
Dawna Jones, who has
served as director of the Mary Lou Williams
Center for Black Culture
at Duke University since summer 2021, stepped into the newly created administrative role of assistant vice president for identity centers and community development on July 1. Dawna now oversees the Center for Black Culture, Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the Women’s Center, Center for Multicultural Affairs, Center for Muslim Life and Jewish Life at Duke.
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Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center was
named the top children’s hospital in the state by U.S. News & World Report for the second consecutive year. Nine of the hospital’s pediatric specialties rank among the best in the nation in the annual report. Duke was also named No. 7 in the nation for pediatric cardiology and heart surgery this year.
was presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who. Dr. Parekh is a foot and ankle specialist known for utilizing his own specially designed implants and techniques, and pioneering the use of 3D technology for treatments. He is also co-founder of the Parekh Family Foundation alongside his wife, Zankhna Parekh. Destinations International inducted Reyn Bowman and Shelly Green, who each previously served as president and CEO of the Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau/ Discover Durham, into its Hall of Fame, which recognizes those who have transformed the destination industry.
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The prize includes a $1,000 award and a handthrown vase from Seagrove, North Carolina. “We are honored to receive this award, which we hope will call attention to the more than 8,000 adolescent parents who currently reside in North Carolina,” says H.E.A.R.T.S. founder Tameka Brown. The funding will be used to provide scholarships for post-secondary education along with clothes and materials for program participants.
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Afters Dessert Bar moved out of the Durham Food Hall with hopes to occupy a new space downtown by late summer or early fall. Another confectionery, Little Barb’s Bakery, took over the DFH space on July 13.
Duke professor and orthopedic surgeon
Dr. Selene G. Parekh
From births to awards to new biz and more –
Glenn Elementary School received $15,000 in
May after its selection as one of the monthly winners of First Bank’s Project Launch Contest, which runs throughout this year and distributes funds to help improve learning in local communities. Glenn exceptional children’s teacher Anna Britt Harty submitted the winning entry, and the funds will support a partnership with Hill Learning Center to train six teachers and interventionists in the Hill Reading Achievement Program in order to provide personalized, explicit instruction to their neediest readers. The North Carolina Peace Corps Association awarded its annual Peace Prize to Helping Each Adolescent Reach Their Spark (H.E.A.R.T.S.), a nonprofit that assists adolescent parents and their children, during a ceremony on May 1 at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh.
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Durham coffee shop Caballo Rojo changed its name to Omie’s Coffee Shop and Roastery in June, following co-founder Addison Yarbrough and Gabriela Kavanaugh’s parting of ways. The brick-and-mortar shop at 2300 N. Roxboro St. opened mid-July. Jetplane Coffee announced the closure
of its shop at 810 N. Mangum St. in June. In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, Durham Distillery Co-Founder, CEO and President Melissa Katrincic announced that the distillery’s cocktail bar Corpse Reviver Bar & Lounge will feature a rotating monthly cocktail benefiting Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.