Arlie Petters - Social Outreach

Social Outreach

Petters has given back significantly to the African-American community, which has included him serving as Director of the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship program at Duke University. He has also been active in the African-American community particularly through his mentoring, recruiting, and lecturing. He has received several community service awards for his social outreach. Petters is also the first tenured African-American professor in Mathematics at Duke University. He is very involved in the Belizean community and in 2005 founded the Petters Research Institute to train Belizean young people in the mathematics, science, and technology fields and help develop green technologies as a serious contributor to the economy of Belize. Petters has also authored a number of science and mathematics workbooks for Belizean students. Through his joint appointment with Duke's Fuqua School of Business, Petters is promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in science and green technology in Belize, a pilot project he plans to extend to other developing nations.