Appointments

• Guy-Uriel E. Charles will join the faculty at Duke Law School this coming summer. He is the Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennett Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota.

Professor Charles is a graduate of Spring Arbor University and the University of Michigan Law School.

• Tenea Watson Nelson was appointed assistant dean for graduate education and director of the biosciences diversity program at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Before coming to Stanford, Dr. Nelson was a research scientist at Gilead Sciences.

Dr. Nelson is a graduate of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of Rochester.

• Dalton Jenkins, pastor of the Bethel Temple of Praise Church of the United Brethren in Christ in Yonkers, New York, was named to the board of trustees of Huntington University in Indiana.

• George McCormick was appointed coordinator of graduate recruitment at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. He was the associate director of undergraduate admissions at the university.

• Danielle Burrell was named director of corporate and foundation relations at Xavier University in New Orleans. She was a career development specialist for the Jefferson Parish Youth Training Center.

Burrell is a graduate of Xavier University and holds a master’s degree from the University of New Orleans.

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