President Vincent Price sent an email to the Duke community Tuesday morning to urge the community to assist with Hurricane Florence relief efforts.
"As we return to normal operations at Duke following Hurricane Florence, I want to first thank the many staff members who worked around the clock over the past week to ensure that we made it through the storm safely and with minimal damage and disruption, and who provided vital assistance to first responders, emergency planners and health care providers across the state," he wrote. "At the same time, many of our neighbors are only now beginning a long process of recovery."
The hurricane, which devastated parts of coastal North Carolina last week, damaged Duke's Marine Lab in Beaufort, N.C., but largely left the University's main campus in Durham unharmed.
Price referenced the rivers in the eastern part of the state that are already breaking flood stage, as well as the homes that have sustained damages and lives lost.
He encouraged community members to jump in to relief efforts with repairing people's homes and included the information to donate the American Red Cross Disaster Relief fund. Duke has also set up a website with information about relief efforts.
"Duke has a long history of stepping up to aid those who need it after a natural disaster," he wrote. "This time is no different, and I invite you to join in the growing number of efforts to help our community, our state, and our region recover from the storm."
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