Global Health Senior Honored for Service

Kathleen Perry, a senior graduating with a degree in religion and a certificate in global health, has been awarded the 2013 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award.

Sponsored by the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation, the award recognizes individuals who personify the integrity and service that were exemplified by Sullivan, a New York lawyer and philanthropist who died in 1887. Duke bestows the award each year on one student and one staff member.

Perry came to Duke in 2009 and quickly found herself drawn to community programs that served the poor, dying, homeless and others on the margins of society. She has tutored middle-school girls in an after-school program at Reality Ministries, journeyed with the dying at Duke Hospice and helped complete paperwork for low-income and uninsured patients at the Samaritan Health Center

This fall, Kathleen will begin the Duke Master of Science in Global Health.

The award was also presented to Duke employee Geoffrey Mock. Read the full story.