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Nicholas Shungu from Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and Morrisville,
North Carolina, graduated this spring. A Reginaldo Howard Memorial
Scholar, he majored in cultural anthropology and minored in chemistry.
He has conducted research in Dakar, Senegal, to examine the levels
of collaboration between traditional healers and other medical practitioners,
and volunteered in four health care facilities in Cape Town, South
Africa. As a Howard Hughes Research Fellow, Nick conducted research
at the Duke University Primate Center on the interactions between
Lemur catta males and presented his findings at the Levine Science
Research Center. At Duke, Nick was an active member of Duke Presidents’
Council on Black Affairs, the Public Anthropology Committee, and
the Health Care Internship Program. He will work with Save Lives
Ethiopia, located in Addis Ababa, on the organization’s programming
and outreach for children and others affected by HIV/AIDS. Nick’s
faculty advisor will be Kate Whetten, Associate Professor of Public
Policy Studies and Community and Family Medicine and Director of
the Health Inequities Program.
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