In celebration of Black History Month, The Black Think Tank (BTT) would like to congratulate the five Duke University faculty and “rising star” named earlier this month in CellPress’s “100 inspiring black scientists in America.”
The inaugural list hoped “to provide some revelation and encouragement to existing and forthcoming generations of scientists,” CellPress’s website said. Duke University is represented by Kafui Dzirasa, MD, PhD (School of Medicine); Sherilynn J. Black, PhD (Medical Education, and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement); Samira Musah, PhD (Biomedical Engineering); Elizabeth Ransey, PhD (EE Just Postgraduate Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Fellow) and Gustavo Silva, PhD (Biology).
Given the BTT’s goals to connect scholars, stimulate creative thinking, develop our community, and be a catalyst for new research, we offer a hearty congratulations and huge thanks to the 100 faculty and emerging scholars who were identified as having done just that.
Read more at http://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/100-inspiring-black-scientists-in-america