Greater Gift, a nonprofit organization based in Winston-Salem, established the Mary Hofmann Murphy Scholarship at Durham Technical Community College to impact students enrolled in the Clinical Trials Research Associate program. The first three recipients were named earlier this month: Danielle Anderson, Courtney Marshall, and Consuela Newman.
The mission of Greater Gift is to increase awareness of clinical research, especially among underrepresented communities, to improve health. In November 2020, Greater Gift established its first scholarship to address the lack of diversity among leaders in the clinical trial industry – named in honor of Mary Hofmann Murphy for her passion for improving diversity and the need for the research industry to be reflective of the populations that research aims to serve.
Elyse Yooley remembers what it felt like to wear her first pair of glasses.
“It was like, ‘Whoa, there are actually leaves on those trees,’” she said.
This fall, Yooley will enter her second year of the Opticianry Associate Degree program at Durham Technical Community College.
As a second-year opticianry student, Yooley will join her classmates in participating in Project SIGHT. Project SIGHT is a partnership Durham Tech has with the East Durham Children’s Initiative, or EDCI, and Durham Public Schools to provide children of low-income backgrounds with free eyeglasses.
Durham Tech’s Phlebotomy program received good news in 2024.
First, the program received accreditation from the American Society Phlebotomy Technicians in July. Then, the first class of Phlebotomy students to go through the program after it received accreditation all successfully passed the national phlebotomy certification test in mid-December and are now certified ASPT phlebotomist.
The BBESL program offers three different certificates at two different levels. Students can earn a certificate by completing the three required core courses and two elective courses with an 80 percent or higher attendance.
Erin Popov, Dental Laboratory Technology (DLT) Program Director/Instructor at Durham Technical Community College, received the 2023 National Association of Dental Laboratories (NADL) Educator of the Year award on January 20.
“I am humbled to have been nominated and so grateful for being selected,” said Popov. “Teaching takes a lot of heart and hard work and so many other educators are as equally deserving.”
The NADL Educator of the Year award recognizes one educator annually who has made outstanding contributions to NADL and the dental laboratory profession. An industry member nominated Popov, and she was announced the winner at the awards reception held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh spoke about the importance of apprenticeships, pathways to careers, and economic mobility at Durham Technical Community College on Wednesday.
The speech followed a tour of the William G. Ingram Center for Learning and Applied Technology with demonstrations from an electrical apprenticeship partnership with the Raleigh-Durham Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (JATC).
“... We see the potential for growth in terms of the diversity, in terms of the inclusion, in terms of America’s workforce and our future. I met some of those great stars and leaders today.” Vice President Harris told a crowd that included state and local elected officials, community partners, students, and instructors inside the Phail Wynn Jr. Student Services Center. She
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Clinical Research Coordinators maintain required records of study activity including case report forms, drug dispensation records, or regulatory forms.