Six Honored at 2024 Cook Awards Celebration

In the year of Duke’s Centennial celebration, the Samuel DuBois Cook Society reached back into Duke’s history to honor a university pioneer with a special lifetime achievement award. Myrna Adams, the university’s first vice president for institutional equity, received the award during the society’s annual awards banquet Thursday night in the Washington Duke Inn. Five other members of the Duke community were also honored at the ceremony. Adams was hired as vice president in 1995 and served in that role until 2000. Prior to her arrival, employees with job complaints frequently took…