Sherryl Broverman, associate professor of the practice of biology, received the university’s Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for community service. Broverman established a Duke partnership with the WISER project in Kenya, in which Duke students empower underprivileged girls in rural parts of the African nation through improvements in education and health.

 

The New York Southern Society established the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Awards in 1925 in memory of Mr. Sullivan, a southerner who became a prominent lawyer, businessman and philanthropist in New York in the late nineteenth century. The award seeks to perpetuate the excellence of character and humanitarian service of Algernon Sydney Sullivan by recognizing and honoring these qualities in others: Recognition of Selflessness, Generosity of Service, Nobility of Character, Person of Integrity, and Depth of Spirituality.  About 50 southern universities grant the award.