Awards

Samira Musah: 2025 Young Innovator in Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE). 2025

Jamila Minga: Emerging Leader Alumni Award. October 2024

Jamila Minga: Media Champion Award. September 2024

Charles Muiruri: Outstanding Leadership in Scientific Mentoring Award. 2024

A-Andrew D. Jones: Early Career Alumnus Award. 2024

Samira Musah: Faculty Travel Grant for Visit to Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. 2024

Samira Musah: Inducted Member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society and publisher of American Scientist. 2024

Samira Musah: HHMI Gilliam Fellowship (paired award for thesis advisor and mentee). 2024

Samira Musah: Duke BME Program Award for Inter-Lab Chalk Talks. 2024

Andrea E. Woods Valdés: Community Leadership. May 2023

Samira Musah: Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) Award, Duke University. 2023

Samira Musah: Maclin Community Connection Grant. 2023

A-Andrew D. Jones: Outstanding Postdoc Mentor. 2023

Chantell Skye Evans: HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. 2023

Sherilynn Black: Co-Chair, Roundtable on Mentorship, Well-Being and Professional Development. 2023

Samira Musah: NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2). 2023

Shaundra Daily: Educator of the Year. November 2022

Jamila Minga: Topics in Language Disorders Katharine G. Butler Trailblazer Award. November 2022

Jamila Minga: Whitehead Scholar Award. August 2022

J. Lorand Matory: J. I. Staley Prize. March 2022

Shaundra Daily: Program of the Year. February 2022

Divine P Kumah: The 2022 Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research. 2022

Chantell Skye Evans: Sloan Research Fellow. 2022

Veronica Root Martinez: Captain William O. McLean Student Award. 2022

Anne-Maria B. Makhulu: Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. 2022