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FOSTERING THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

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Giving to -

shape curiosity that leads to change.

Our community of scholars is built on collaboration, innovation, and a perpetual drive to keep asking why. Gifts to endow professorships help spread faculty influence beyond Duke through their research and teaching and, ultimately, through the difference that their students make at Duke—and after they leave.

Where everyone matters

Simply put, a world-class university without diversity cannot claim to be world-class. At Duke, we’re committed to being a place where everyone can be seen, including our faculty members. Beginning in 2020, Duke pledged to become an anti-racist university — by creating an environment in which everyone in the Duke community wants to stay. Because seeing and supporting one another is what makes us world-class.

Photo shows the main door and the exterior of the Westbrook Building at Duke Divinity School.

Community-Engaged Research Projects Take on Environmental and Climate Justice Issues Close to Home

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Transformative Gift to Sanford to Create Technology Policy Professorship

Mary (foreground) and Tim Mapes with Nicholas School dean Lori Bennear

Family surprises environmentalist Mary Mapes with fellowship fund in her honor

Students surround School of Nursing instructor teaching with a CPR manikin.

Historic Gift Advances Duke University School of Nursing Mission

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360 Degrees of the Business School Experience at Fuqua

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Today’s Faculty Reflect on a Century of Duke Scholars

Brent A. Strawn Awarded NEH Grant to Create Critical Edition of the Hebrew Psalter

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New $30 million award from The Duke Endowment to elevate computing and A.I. at Duke

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New Gift to Support Heart Transplant Patients and Their Families

Lyndsay Lyle on campus in a selfie with Duke Chapel in the background.

Mountaintop experience

Laurie and Randy May in front of the White House.

The road to recovery

Adrienne-Stiff Roberts standing in front of a whiteboard smiling. Her right hand is outstretched, like she is explaining something.

Building a Better Solar Cell

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Grateful Family Honors Physician with Presidential Chair in Endocrinology

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Fellowship Enables English Professor to Bring Poetry and Music into Dialogue

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Gratitude in Mind

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Endowed Clinical Professorships at Duke Law Help Duke, Durham Communities

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Duke Alumni Couple Makes $10 Million Gift to Advance the Humanities

New Professorship Honors Namesake’s Creativity and Passion

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How Did Political Polarization Begin, and Where Does it End?

Lindsey Glickfeld adjusts a dial on a piece of lab equipment.

A Fountain of Youth for the Brain

A Gel That Regrows the Brain? Ingenious.

Amanda Randles discussing object on screen

Simulate the Human Heart? Without Missing a Beat

Duke scientists receive $1 million from Keck Foundation to develop nature-inspired, super-efficient catalysts

Shyni Varghese and a lab technician inspect a chip.

Better Preclinical Drug Testing and More with Organs-on-Chips

Ensuring diverse faculty are hired at Duke is at heart of new $2 million gift

Duke Law faculty and students review documents in a law clinic.

New Law Clinic to Give Students Opportunities for Hands-on Experience with Criminal Defense

An external view of the Sanford School of Public Policy with crape myrtles.

New $11M Gift to Duke to Invest in Public Policy as Primary Focus

Amy Herring going over formula on whiteboard

Better stats. Better science. Better outcomes.

Nicki Washington sits behind a computer at the front of a classroom.

An Algorithm for a Better World

Smooth as Glass

Welcoming New Voices to Duke Divinity Faculty

Vahid Tarokh teaching with large screen displayed behind him

One Step Ahead

Raphael Valdivia looking at a petri dish

Micro focus. Macro impact.

A low-angle external view of the Sanford School of Public Policy.

Gift to Sanford School to Focus on National Security Professorship

Wilton Williams looking at lab equipment

Discovery of an I-Shaped Antibody Opens New Avenue to HIV Vaccine

Two scientist studying pictures on a screen

A Computer that Could Change Everything

Dan Scolnic, a 2022 Sloan Research Fellow, faces forward and smiles.

Meet Trinity’s 2022 Sloan Fellow

Computational Thinking is for Everyone

Duke professor Maiken Mikkelsen adjusts a piece equipment in her laboratory

Food Sustainability in Focus

Dancers rehearse in the "jewel box" studio at Rubenstein Arts Center.

A Leap Forward for the Arts at Duke with $7 Million Award from The Duke Endowment

It has been important that I start to find ways to make sure that every student, regardless of their identity sees themselves in computing.

– Nicki Washington, Cue Family Professor of the Practice of Computer Science

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