Marcus Parker is a junior from Southfield, MI (just north of Detroit). He’s a mechanical engineering major and economics minor. Last summer he put those skills to good use when he interned in the electro-photography department of a major printing company. He hopes to learn even more this summer while taking a class at Duke and doing research in the lab with his dynamic systems professor.
Outside of the classroom and the Reggie program, Marcus has spent the last year serving as co-chair of Dialogues on Race Relations, the discussion planning arm of the Center for Race Relations (CRR). He also helped facilitate Common Ground, the CRR’s fall diversity immersion retreat. Additionally, he has served as vice president of Black Male Outreach and Education and historian of the National Society of Black Engineers, and is a member of two honor fraternities: Phi Sigma Pi national honor fraternity, and Pi Tau Sigma, the mechanical engineering honor fraternity. Finally, he also plays club tennis from time to time, and is an avid follower of college sports. He has been a lifelong Duke basketball fan. He knows that UNC’s talent the past three years has caused their team and their fans to become even more smug than usual, and can’t wait until we wipe the grins off of their faces and ruin their national championship hopes. Go Devils!