Duke University

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established the Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.

The campus spans over on three contiguous sub-campuses in Durham, and a marine lab in Beaufort. The West Campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture with the Duke Chapel at the campus' center and highest point of elevation, is adjacent to the Medical Center. East Campus, away, home to all first-years, contains Georgian-style architecture.

The university administers two concurrent schools in Asia, Duke–NUS Medical School in Singapore (established in 2005) and Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China (established in 2013).

Duke spends more than $1 billion per year on research. , 16 Nobel laureates and 3 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university. Duke alumni also include 50 Rhodes Scholars. Duke is the alma mater of one president of the United States (Richard Nixon) and 14 living billionaires. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Gil I. Wolfe, Henry J. Kaminski, Inmaculada B. Aban, Greg Minisman, Hui Chien Kuo, Alexander Marx, Philipp Ströbel, Claudio Mazia, Joel Oger, J. Gabriel Cea, Jeannine M. Heckmann, Amelia Evoli, Wilfred Nix, Emma Ciafaloni, Giovanni Antonini, Rawiphan Witoonpanich, John O. King, Said R. Beydoun, Colin H. Chalk, Alexandru C. Barboi, Anthony A. Amato, Aziz I. Shaibani, Bashar Katirji, Bryan R.F. Lecky, Camilla Buckley, Angela Vincent, Elza Dias-Tosta, Hiroaki Yoshikawa, Márcia Waddington-Cruz, Michael T. Pulley, Michael H. Rivner, Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk, Robert M. Pascuzzi, Carlayne E. Jackson, Jan J.G.M. Verschuuren, Janice M. Massey, John T. Kissel, Lineu C. Werneck, Michael Benatar, Richard J. Barohn, Rup Tandan, Tahseen Mozaffar, Nicholas J. Silvestri, Robin Conwit, Joshua R. Sonett, Alfred Jaretzki, John Newsom-Davis, Gary R. Cutter, Gary Cutter, Inmaculada Aban, Michelle Feese, Gil Wolfe, Henry Kaminski, Joshua Sonett, Valeria Saluto, Moises Rosenberg, Valeria Alvarez, Lisa Rey, John King, Helmut Butzkueven, John Goldblatt, John Carey, John Pollard, Stephen Reddel, Nicholas Handel, Brian McCaughan, Linda Pallot, Ricardo Novis, Carlos Boasquevisque, Rubens Morato-Fernandez, Manoel Ximenes, Lineu Werneck, Rosana Scola, Paulo Soltoski, Colin Chalk, Fraser Moore, David Mulder, Lisa Wadup, Michele Mezei, Kenneth Evans, Theresa Jiwa, Anne Schaffar, Chris White, Cory Toth, Gary Gelfand, Susan Wood, Elizabeth Pringle, Jocelyn Zwicker, Donna Maziak, Farid Shamji, Sudhir Sundaresan, Andrew Seely, Gabriel Cea, Renato Verduga, Alberto Aguayo, Sebastian Jander, Philipp Zickler, Michael Klein, Cleo Aron Weis, Arthur Melms
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