Spring 2009 - Nature and Nurture
Giving News from the Spring 2009 Issue of Dukenvironment Magazine
Fred and Alice Stanback Receive North Carolina’s Highest Civilian Award
Duke University alumni and longtime Nicholas School of the Environment friends Fred and Alice Stanback of Salisbury, N.C., received the prestigious 2008 North Carolina Award for public service.
Stanback Gift Allows Nicholas School to Examine Potential Health Impacts of Environmental Pollution
Alice and Fred Stanback of Salisbury, N.C., donated an additional $2 million in December 2008 to the Nicholas School and the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, continuing their support of a collaborative research initiative between the two institutions. Duke is one of only two universities in the country that can lay claim to a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center as well as one of the nation’s premier schools of the environment.
