Hines, Goltz and Moore announced as Graduate Young Trustee finalists

The finalists to become Young Trustee for the graduate and professional student body are Alisha Hines, Daniel Goltz and Erika Moore.

Travis Knoll, chair of the Graduate Young Trustee selection committee and a graduate student in the history department, announced the students as finalists in an email Wednesday night. The candidates will be presented to the General Assembly of the Graduate and Professional Student Council Feb. 21, he wrote. During this meeting, voting members of the General Assembly will elect one of them to become this year’s Young Trustee with a two-year tenure on the Board of Trustees.

Alisha Hines is seeking her Ph.D. in history with a focus on black women in the 19th century. Hines received her undergraduate and master’s degrees at the University of Chicago before coming to Duke in 2012. She has served in several roles in GPSC and was on the executive board of the Black Graduate and Professional Student Association.

An M.D./MBA candidate in the School of Medicine and the Fuqua School of Business, Daniel Goltz plans to pursue an orthopaedic surgery residency after graduation. He studied computational mathematics at Columbia University in New York City as an undergraduate.

Erika Moore is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at Duke, where she focuses her research on vascular development while also serving as a graduate resident. She completed her undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University, focusing on the use of stem cells in tissue engineering. She has also worked at the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. and holds a provisional patent for an “evaporative therapeutic hypothermia device.