Duke University is a
private research university
located in Durham, North
Carolina
, United
States
. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town
of Trinity
in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.
In 1924, tobacco industrialist
James
Buchanan Duke established
The
Duke Endowment, prompting the institution to change its name in
honor of his deceased father,
Washington
Duke.
The University is organized into two
undergraduate and nine
graduate schools. The undergraduate student
body comes from all 50
U.S. states and
106 countries. In its 2010 edition,
U.S. News & World Report
ranked the university's undergraduate program 10th among national
universities, while ranking the
medical,
law, and
business schools among the top 12
in the country. Duke University ranked 13th in the 2008
THES - QS World University
Rankings.
Duke's research expenditures are among the largest ten in the U.S.
Competing in the
Atlantic
Coast Conference, Duke's
athletic
teams have won 119 ACC Championships and ten
national championships, including three by
its men's basketball
team.
Besides
academics, research, and athletics, Duke is also well known for its
sizable campus and Gothic
architecture, especially the Duke Chapel
. The forests surrounding parts of the campus
belie the University's proximity to downtown Durham, about two
miles away.
Duke's 8,610 acres
(35 km2) contain three contiguous campuses in
Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort
. Construction projects have updated both the
freshmen-populated Georgian-style East Campus and the
main Gothic-style West Campus, as well as the adjacent Medical
Center
over the past five years.
History
Beginnings

One of the first buildings on the
original Durham campus (East Campus), the Washington Duke Building
("Old Main") was destroyed by a fire in 1911.
Duke
started as Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school
founded in 1838, in Randolph County
in the present-day town of Trinity
. Brown's Schoolhouse was organized by the
Union Institute Society, a group of
Methodists and
Quakers, and in 1841 North
Carolina issued a charter for Union Institute Academy. The academy
was renamed Normal College in 1851 and then Trinity College in 1859
because of support from the Methodist Church. In 1892, Trinity
moved to Durham, largely due to generosity from
Washington Duke and
Julian S. Carr, powerful and respected
Methodists who had grown wealthy through the tobacco industry.
Washington Duke gave what was then known as Trinity College a
$100,000 endowment in 1896, with the stipulation that the college
"open its doors to women, placing them on an equal footing with
men."
In 1924, Washington Duke's son,
James B. Duke, established
The Duke Endowment with a $40 million
($434 million in
2005 dollars) trust fund.
The annual income of the fund was to be distributed to hospitals,
orphanages, the Methodist Church, three colleges, and Trinity
College.
William Preston Few,
the president of Trinity College, insisted that the university be
named Duke University, and James B. Duke agreed that it would be a
memorial to his father. Money from the endowment allowed the
University to grow quickly. Duke's original campus (East Campus)
was rebuilt from 1925 to 1927 with Georgian-style buildings. By
1930, the majority of the Gothic style buildings on the campus one
mile (1.6 km) west were completed, and construction on West
Campus culminated with the completion of Duke Chapel in 1935.
Expansion and growth
Engineering, which had been taught since 1903, became a
separate school in 1939.
In
athletics, Duke hosted and competed in the only Rose Bowl
ever played outside California in Wallace Wade
Stadium
in 1942. Increased
activism on campus during the 1960s
prompted
Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. to speak at the University on the civil rights
movement's progress on November 14, 1964. The former
governor of North Carolina,
Terry Sanford, was elected president
in 1969, propelling the
Fuqua
School of Business's opening, the William R. Perkins library
completion, and the founding of the
Institute of Policy
Sciences and Public Affairs (now the Sanford School of Public
Policy). The separate Woman's College merged back with Trinity as
the
liberal arts college for both men
and women in 1972. Beginning in the 1970s, Duke administrators
began a long-term effort to strengthen Duke's reputation both
nationally and internationally. Interdisciplinary work was
emphasized, as was recruiting minority faculty and students.
Duke University
Hospital was finished in 1980 and the student union was fully
constructed two years later. In 1986, the men's
soccer team captured Duke's first
NCAA championship,
and the men's
basketball team
followed with championships in
1991,
1992, and
2001.
Recent history
Duke University's growth and academic focus have contributed to the
university's reputation as an academic and research institution.
The school has regularly sent three-member teams to the
William Lowell
Putnam Mathematical Competition, earning the title of the best
collegiate undergraduate math team in the United States and Canada
in 1993, 1996 and 2000. In recent years Duke's team has regularly
finished in the top three.
Construction continued on campus, with the
Levine
Science Research Center
(LSRC) opening in 1994 to house interdisciplinary research, and construction
has continued. These projects have updated
both the freshmen-housed
Georgian-style East Campus and the
main Gothic-style West Campus, as well as the adjacent
Medical Center in the past
five years. Other projects are underway on all three campuses,
including a 50- to 75-year overhaul of Central Campus.
In 1998, Duke President
Nan
Keohane initiated a five-year $1.5 billion Campaign for Duke
fundraising effort.
Edmund T.
Pratt, Jr. ('47) endowed the
Pratt School of
Engineering with a $35 million gift in 1999. The Campaign for
Duke ended in 2003 with $2.36 billion raised, making it the fifth
largest campaign in the history of American higher education.
In the 2007 fiscal year, research expenditures surpassed $781
million, mostly in health care and life sciences. Duke's research
also encompasses engineering, environmental science, social
sciences and path-breaking interdisciplinary collaborations.. The
first working demonstration of an
invisibility cloak was unveiled by Duke
researchers in October 2006. In 2002 and 2006, three students were
named
Rhodes Scholars, a number
surpassed by only one other university both years. Overall, Duke
has produced 42 Rhodes Scholars, including 21 in the past 15
years.
In August
2005, Duke established a partnership with the National
University of Singapore
to develop a joint medical program, which had its
first entering class in 2007. In 2006, three
lacrosse team members were accused of
rape
. Charges against the players were later
dropped and the initial prosecutor was disbarred for ethical
improprieties. The incident garnered
significant
media attention.
Campus
Duke University owns 220 buildings on 8,610 acres
(35 km
2) of land, which includes the
7,200 acre (29 km²) Duke Forest. The campus is divided
into four main areas: West, East, and Central campuses, and the
Medical Center. All the campuses are connected via a free bus
service or the
Duke
University Medical Center Patient Rapid Transit people mover.
On the
Atlantic
coast in Beaufort
, Duke owns as part of its Marine Lab.
One of
the major public attractions on the Duke Campus is the Sarah
P.
Duke Gardens
, established in the 1930s.
Duke students often refer to the campus as "the Gothic Wonderland,"
a nickname referring to the
Gothic
revival architecture of West Campus. Much of the campus was
designed by
Julian Abele, one of the
first prominent
African American
architects. The residential quadrangles
are of an early and somewhat unadorned design, while the buildings
in the academic quadrangles show influences of the more elaborate
late French and Italian styles. Its freshman campus (East Campus)
is composed of buildings in the
Georgian architecture style.
The stone used for the West Campus has seven
primary colors and seventeen shades of color.
The
university supervisor of planning and construction wrote that the
stone has "an older, more attractive antique effect" and a "warmer
and softer coloring than the Princeton stone
" that gave the university an "artistic
look". James B.
Duke initially suggested the use of stone
from a quarry in Princeton
, New
Jersey
, but later amended the plans to use stone from a
local quarry which was purchased Dukestone in Hillsborough
to reduce costs. Duke Chapel
stands at the heart of West Campus.
Constructed from 1930 to 1935, the chapel
seats 1,600 people; and, at 210 feet (64 m), is one of
the tallest buildings in Durham County
.
As of November 1, 2005, Duke had spent $835 million dollars on 34
major construction projects initiated since February 2001. At that
time, Duke initiated a five-year strategic plan, "Building on
Excellence." Completed projects since 2002 include major additions
to the business, law, nursing, and divinity schools, a new library,
an art museum, a football training facility, two residential
buildings, an engineering complex, a public policy building, an eye
institute, two genetic research buildings, a student plaza, the
French Family Science Center,
and two new medical-research buildings.
Libraries and museums
With more than 5.5 million
volumes, the
Duke University Library
System is one of the ten largest private university library
systems in the U.S. and is the 29th largest of all libraries in the
United States. It contains 17.7 million
manuscripts, 1.2 million public documents, and
tens of thousands of
films and
videos. Besides the main
William R. Perkins Library, the university
also contains the separately administered Ford (business),
Divinity School,
Duke Law, and
Medical Center Libraries.
The William R. Perkins Library system has 9 branches on campus. In
addition to Perkins Library, the system contains the
Biological &
Environmental Science Library, Bostock
Library, the Library Service Center, Lilly Library (which houses
materials on
fine arts,
philosophy, film & video, and
performing arts), the
Music Library, Pearse Memorial Library (located at the
Marine Lab). The University
Archives and Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections are also considered part of the Perkins Library system.
Bostock Library, named for Board of
Trustee member
Roy J. Bostock, opened in the fall of 2005 as part
of the University's strategic plan to supplement Duke's libraries.
It contains 87 study carrels, 517 seats, and 96 computer stations,
as well as of shelving for overflow books from Perkins Library as
well as for new collections.
Nasher
Museum of Art
, was designed by Rafael
Viñoly and is named for Duke alumnus and art collector Raymond Nasher. The museum opened in
2005 at a cost of over $23 million, and contains over 13,000 works
of art including works by
Andy Warhol,
Barkley L. Hendricks,
Christian Marclay,
Dario Robleto and
Kara
Walker.
West, East, and Central Campuses
West Campus, the heart of Duke University, houses all the
sophomores, along with some juniors and seniors. In addition, most
of the academic and administrative centers reside there.
"Main"
West Campus, with Duke
Chapel
at its center, contains the majority of residential
quads to the south, while the main academic quad, library, and
Medical Center are to
the north. The campus, spanning , includes Science Drive,
which consists of science and engineering buildings.
Most of the campus
eateries and sports facilities including the historic basketball
stadium, Cameron
Indoor Stadium
, are on West.
 The main West Campus is dominated by
Gothic architecture.
Shown here are typical residence halls.
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East Campus, the original location of Duke University, functions as
a freshman campus as well as the home of several academic
departments. Since the 1995-96 academic year, all freshmen—and only
freshmen except for upperclassmen serving as Resident
Assistants—have lived on East Campus, to build class unity. The
campus encompasses and is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away from
West Campus. The
Art History,
History,
Literature,
Music,
Philosophy, and
Women's Studies Departments are housed on
East. Programs such as
dance,
drama,
education,
film, and the University
Writing
Program also reside on East. East Campus, a fully self-sufficient
campus, contains the freshman dormitories, a dining hall, Lilly
Library, Baldwin Auditorium, a theater, Brodie Gym, tennis courts,
and several academic buildings. Separated from downtown by a short
walk, the area was the site of the Women's College from 1930 to
1972.
Central Campus, consisting of between East and West campuses,
houses around 850 juniors and seniors and 200
professional students in
apartments.
It is home to the Nasher
Museum of Art
, the Freeman Center for Jewish
Life, the Duke Police Department, the Duke Office of Disability Management, a Ronald McDonald House, and
administrative departments such as Duke Residence Life and Housing
Services. Central has several recreation and social
facilities such as basketball courts, tennis courts, a sand
volleyball court,
barbecue and picnic shelter as well as barbecue
grills, a general gathering building called Devil's Den, and a
convenience store.
At present, there is a 20- to 50-year plan to restructure Central
Campus. The idea is to develop an "academic village" as a key
center for the Duke community. The first phase, costing $240
million, involves replacing the outdated apartments. Other
additions in the first phase include dining, academic,
recreational, and service facilities. A key goal of the Central
renovations is to reintegrate the area with the rest of the Duke
campus, as it is connected to the other campuses by a circuitous,
inefficient bus route.
Key places

The Sarah P.
Duke Gardens attract more than 300,000 visitors each
year.
Duke Forest, established in 1931, today consists of
7,200 acres (29 km²) in six divisions, just west of Duke
University's West Campus. It is one of the largest continually
managed forests in the U.S. and demonstrates a variety of forest
stand types and
silvicultural
treatments. Duke Forest is used extensively for research and
includes the Aquatic Research Facility, Forest Carbon Transfer and
Storage (FACTS-I) research facility, two permanent towers suitable
for micrometerological studies, and other areas designated for
animal behavior and ecosystem study. More than 30 miles
(48 km) of trails are open to the public for hiking, cycling,
and horseback riding.
The
Duke Lemur Center, located
inside the Duke Forest, is the world's largest sanctuary for rare
and endangered
prosimian primates. Founded in 1966, the Duke Lemur Center
spans 85 acres (3.44 km²) and contains nearly 300 animals
of 25 different species of
lemurs,
galagos and
lorises.
The
Sarah
P.
Duke Gardens
, established in the early 1930s, is situated
between West Campus and the apartments of Central Campus.
The gardens occupy 55 acres (2.2 km²), divided into four major
sections: the original Terraces and their surroundings; the H.L.
Blomquist Garden of Native Plants, devoted to flora of the
Southeastern United States; the W.L. Culberson Asiatic Arboretum,
housing plants of Eastern Asia, as well as disjunct species found
in both Eastern Asia and Eastern North America; and the Doris Duke
Center Gardens. There are five miles (8 km) of allées and
paths throughout Gardens.[
Duke University Medical
Center, located directly north of West Campus, combines one of
the top-rated hospitals and one of the top-ranked
medical schools in the
U.S. Founded in 1930, the Medical Center occupies 7.5 million
square feet (700,000 m²) in 91 buildings on 210 acres
(8.5 km²).
Duke
University Marine Lab, although located in the town of Beaufort,
North Carolina
, is also part of Duke's campus. The marine lab is
situated on Pivers Island on the Outer Banks
of North Carolina, only across the channel from
Beaufort. Duke's interest in the area began in the early
1930s and the first buildings were erected in 1938. The resident
faculty represent the disciplines of
oceanography,
marine
biology, marine
biomedicine, marine
biotechnology, and coastal marine
policy and management. The Marine Laboratory is a member of the
National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML).
Academics
Profile
Duke's student body consists of 6,340 undergraduates and
7,117 graduate and professional students (as of Fall 2008).
The undergraduate student body, containing 40% ethnic
minorities, come from all 50
U.S. states and 106 countries (as of
2007-08). For the undergraduate class of 2013, Duke received
23,877 applications, and accepted 18% of them. For the class
of 2012, 96% of admitted students ranked in the top 10% of their
high school class. The middle 50% range of
SAT
scores for first-year students is 1340-1540 (old scale) or
2020-2320 (new scale), while the
ACT range is 29-34. In 2007 the
School of Medicine
received 5,076 applicants for 100 spots (2.0% of
applicants), while the average
GPA and
MCAT scores for accepted students were 3.88 and 36,
respectively. The
School
of Law accepted approximately 18% of its applicants for the
Class of 2012, while enrolling students had a median GPA of 3.76
and median
LSAT of 169.
Duke University has two schools for undergraduates:
Trinity College of Arts and
Sciences and
Pratt
School of Engineering. The University's graduate and
professional schools include the
Graduate School, the
Pratt School of
Engineering, the
Nicholas School of the
Environment, the
School of Medicine, the
School of Nursing,
the
Fuqua School of
Business, the
School
of Law, the
Divinity
School, and the
Sanford School of Public
Policy.
In the past decade, Duke has had the sixth highest number of
Fulbright,
Rhodes,
Truman, and
Goldwater scholarships
in the nation among private universities. The University practices
need-blind admissions and meets
100% of admitted students' demonstrated need. More than 40% of
students in 2007–08 received financial aid, with the average
grant being $26,700. Roughly
60 merit-based scholarships are also offered, many of which
are geared toward students in North Carolina, African-American
students, and high achieving students requiring financial
aid.
Duke
University's endowment had a
market value of $4.4 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30,
2009.] The University's special academic facilities include an
art
museum
, several language labs, the Duke Forest, the Duke
Herbarium, a lemur center, a
phytotron, a free electron laser, a nuclear magnetic resonance
machine, a nuclear lab, and a
marine lab. Duke also is a leading participant in the
National Lambda Rail Network and
runs a program for gifted children known as the
Talent Identification Program,
or TIP.
Undergraduate
Duke offers 36 arts and sciences
majors, four engineering majors, and 46
additional majors that have been approved under Program II, which
allows students to design their own interdisciplinary major.
Sixteen certificate programs also are available. Students may
pursue a combination of a total of up to three
majors/minors/certificates. Eighty percent of undergraduates enroll
in the
Trinity
College of Arts and Sciences, while the rest are in the
Pratt School of
Engineering.
Trinity's
curriculum operates under the
revised version of "Curriculum 2000." It ensures that students are
exposed to a variety of "areas of knowledge" and "modes of
inquiry." The curriculum aims to help students develop critical
faculties and judgment by learning how to access, synthesize, and
communicate knowledge effectively, acquiring perspective on current
and historical events, conducting research and solving problems,
and developing tenacity and a capacity for hard and sustained work.
In addition, freshmen can elect to participate in the
FOCUS Program, which allows students to engage
in an interdisciplinary exploration of a specific topic in a small
group setting.
Pratt's curriculum, on the other hand, is narrower in scope, but
still accommodates double majors in a variety of disciplines. The
school emphasizes undergraduate research—opportunities for hands-on
experiences arise through
internships,
fellowship programs, and the structured
curriculum. Furthermore, for the class of 2007, more than 27% of
Pratt undergraduates
studied abroad,
small compared to the percentage for Trinity undergraduates (46%),
but much larger than the national average for engineering students
(1.5%).
Research
In the 2007 fiscal year, research expenditures surpassed $781
million, mostly in health care and life sciences.
In the 2005 fiscal
year, Duke University Medical Center received the fifth-largest
amount of funding from the National Institute of Health
, netting $349.8 million. Duke's funding
increased 14.8% from 2004, representing the largest growth of any
top-20 recipient.
In the 2008 fiscal year, Duke University School of
Nursing jumped to 18th nationally in the rankings of the
National
Institute of Health
funding for nursing schools, netting more than
$2.34 million, up 54 percent from 2007, when it ranked 30th
nationally.
Throughout history, Duke researchers have made breakthroughs,
including the
biomedical
engineering department's development of the world's first
real-time, three-dimensional
ultrasound
diagnostic system and the first engineered
blood vessels. In the
mechanical engineering department,
Adrian Bejan developed the
constructal theory, which explains the
shapes that arise in nature. Duke has also pioneered studies
involving
nonlinear dynamics,
chaos, and complex systems in
physics. In May 2006, Duke researchers mapped the
final human
chromosome, which made world
news as the
Human Genome
Project was finally complete. Reports of Duke researchers'
involvement in new
AIDS vaccine research surfaced in June 2006. The biology
department combines two historically strong programs in
botany and
zoology, while one
of the divinity school's leading theologians is
Stanley Hauerwas, whom
Time named "America's Best Theologian" in
2001. The graduate program in literature boasts several
internationally renowned figures, including
Fredric Jameson,
Michael Hardt, and
Alice Kaplan, while philosophers Robert Brandon
and
Lakatos Award-winner
Alexander Rosenberg make Duke a leading
center for research in
philosophy
of biology.

Built in 1932, Old Chemistry has
scientific symbols carved above the main doorway
Rankings
In the 2010
U.S. News & World Report
ranking of undergraduate programs at doctoral granting
institutions, Duke ranked 10th. In the past decade,
U.S. News & World Report
has placed Duke as high as 3rd and as low as 10th. Duke was ranked
the 13th-best university in the world in 2007 by the
THES - QS World University
Rankings.
Duke was ranked 32nd best globally and 25th
nationally by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
in 2008, focusing on quality of scientific research
and number of Nobel Prizes.The Wall Street Journal ranked
Duke 6th (5th among universities) in its "feeder" rankings in 2006,
analyzing the percentage of undergraduates that enroll in what it
considers the top 5 medical, law, and business schools. A
survey by the
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education in
2002 ranked Duke as the best university in the country in regard to
the integration of African American students and faculty.
In
U.S.
News & World
Report 's "America's Best Graduate Schools 2009," Duke's
medical school
ranked 6th for research and tied for 41st for
primary care, while the
law school ranked 10th. In the
U.S.
News & World
Report 's most recent rankings of nursing schools, in
2007, Duke's
nursing
school tied for 15th. Among business schools in the United
States, the
Fuqua School of
Business was ranked 12th by
U.S. News & World Report in
2009 and 8th by
BusinessWeek
in 2008. The graduate program for the
Pratt School of Engineering was
ranked 30th by
U.S. News & World Report
and 2nd by
The Princeton
Review in 2006 among national engineering schools. In the
rankings of doctoral programs by
U.S. News & World Report in
its 2008 edition, Duke ranked 1st in
literary criticism and
theory, 5th in
ecology and
evolutionary biology, 5th in
biomedical engineering, tied for 6th
in
statistics, tied for 12th for doctoral
programs in the
sciences, tied for 20th in
computer science, tied for 21st in
mathematics, tied for 29th in
physics, tied for 34th in
earth sciences, and ranked 38th in
chemistry.
Political science,
sociology,
history,
economics, and
cultural anthropology departments also
frequently rank in the top 20 of their respective disciplines among
U.S. universities.
The
Philosophical Gourmet Report placed Duke's philosophy program
as the 27th best in the nation in 2006, while ranking Duke as the
best program in the U.S. in
philosophy of biology.
Athletics
Duke's 26 varsity sports teams, known as the
Blue Devils, are members of the
NCAA's Division I Atlantic Coast Conference. The
Blue Devil Mascot's origins are rooted in a elite French alpine
fighting unit that garnered accolades and much global attention
during World War I and its aftermath. The French fighters' uniforms
consisted of a flowing blue cape and blue beret. Athletic teams at
the school had no moniker until approximately 1924 when the
school's newspaper, The Trinity Chronicle, decided upon "Blue
Devils" as the name after a much maligned democratic effort to
select a name in the previous year. Students initially feared that
the Methodist school's administration might frown upon the choice
given the religious environment but were surprised when there was
virtually zero opposition to the reference. Although hardly anyone
today knows of the elite French fighting force, "les Diables
Bleus," Duke's mascot origin is considered to be military and
patriotic rather than anti-religious.
Duke's teams have won ten NCAA team national championships—the
women's
golf team has won five (1999, 2002,
2005, 2006 and 2007), the men's
basketball team has won three (1991,
1992, and 2001), and the men's
soccer (1986) and women's
tennis (2009) teams have won one each.
Historically, Duke's
major rival has been the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
, especially in basketball. The rivalry has led people to identify
the two differing shades of blue in relation to their respective
university—calling the lighter powder blue "
Carolina blue" and the darker blue "
Duke blue."
In the past ten years, Duke has finished in the top 30 every year
in the
NACDA
Directors' Cup, an overall
measure of an institution's athletic success. In the past three
years, Duke has finished 11th (2007), eighth (2006), and fifth
(2005). Duke teams that have been ranked in the top ten nationally
in the 2000s include men's and women's basketball, men's and
women's
tennis, men's and women's soccer,
men's and women's fencing, men's and women's
cross country running, men's and
women's lacrosse, women's
field hockey,
and men's and women's golf. Eight of these teams were ranked either
first or second in the country during 2004–05. Women's golf has
been particularly dominating, compiling a record of 796-45-3 (.945)
in the 2000–2005 seasons. Duke has won 112 ACC Championships, 42 of
which have come since 1999-2000 (through 2008-09). The men's
lacrosse program has been one of the most successful in the nation
recently—it has ranked in the top 15 in the country in five of the
last six last participating seasons and reached the national
championship game in 2005 and 2007, losing to
The Johns Hopkins University by a
single goal and accumulating season records of 17-3 both
times.
According to a 2006 evaluation conducted by the NCAA, Duke's
student-athletes have the highest graduation rate of any
institution in the nation. In 2005, 2006, and 2007, Duke ranked
first among Division I schools in the National Collegiate Scouting
Association Power Rankings—a combination of the institution's
Director's Cup standing, its athletic graduation rate, and its
academic rank in
U.S. News & World
Report.
Men's basketball
Duke's men's basketball team, is one of the nation's most
successful basketball programs. The team has captured three
National
Championships, while attending 14
Final
Fours and nine Championship games. Duke is tied for the most
Atlantic Coast Conference championships with 17 and have had the
most National Players of the Year in the nation with 11.
Seventy-two players have been selected in the
NBA Draft, while 32 players have been honored as
All-Americans. Duke's program is one of
only two to have been to at least one Final Four and one National
Championship game in each of the past five decades.
The program's home
facility is historic Cameron Indoor Stadium
, considered one of the top venues in the
nation.
The team's success has been particularly outstanding over the past
25 years under coach
Mike Krzyzewski
(often simply called "Coach K") who also has coached the
USA men's national basketball
team since 2006 and led to team to Olympic gold in 2008. Their
successes include becoming one of only two teams to win three
national championships since the
NCAA
Tournament field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985, ten
Final Fours in the past 21 years, and eight of
nine ACC tournament championships from 1999 to 2006. Fourteen of
its alumni play in the NBA as of the 2009 season, making Duke tied
for the highest number among college teams.
Football
The Blue
Devils have won seven ACC
Football Championships, have had ten players honored as ACC
Player of the Year (the most in the ACC), and have had three
Pro Football
Hall of Famers
come through the program (second in the ACC to only
Miami's four). In
addition, the Blue Devils have produced 11 College Football Hall of
Famers which is tied for the 2nd most in the ACC. Duke has also won
17 total conference championships (7 ACC, 9 Southern Conference,
and 1 Big Five Conference). That total is the highest in the
ACC.
The most famous Duke
football
season came in 1938, when
Wallace Wade
coached the "Iron Dukes" that shut out all regular season
opponents; only three teams in history can claim such a feat.
Duke
reached their first Rose Bowl
appearance, where they lost 7-3 when USC
scored a touchdown in the final minute of
the game. Wade's Blue Devils lost another Rose Bowl to
Oregon State in 1942, this one
held at Duke's home stadium
due to the attack on Pearl Harbor
, which resulted in the fear that a large gathering
on the West Coast might be in range of Japanese aircraft
carriers. The football program also proved successful in the
1950s and 1960s, winning six of the first ten
ACC
football championships from 1953 to 1962 under coach
Bill Murray; the Blue Devils would not win
the ACC championship again until 1989 under now revered coach
Steve Spurrier.
Despite its long history of success at football, Duke has not had a
winning season since 1994.
David
Cutcliffe was brought in two years ago as head coach, however,
and he and his staff have been widely hailed as contributing to a
turnaround that is currently in progress. The 2009 team won 5 of 12
games and was eliminated from bowl contention in the next-to-last
game of the season. Typical of the external recognition given the
team is the fact that Mike MacIntyre, the defensive coordinator,
was named 2009 Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Football
Coaches Association
While the football team has struggled at times on the field, the
graduation rate of its players is consistently among the highest
among Division I-A schools. Duke's high graduation rates have
earned it more
American Football Coaches
Association's Academic Achievement Awards than any other
institution.
Student life
Residential life

Built as a dorm and still standing on
East Campus today, Epworth is only about one-third its original
size after a fire.
Duke requires its students to live on campus for the first three
years of
undergraduate life, except
for a small percentage of second semester juniors who are exempted
by a
lottery system. This requirement is
justified by the administration as an effort to help students
connect more closely with one another and sustain a sense of
belonging within the Duke community. Thus, 85% of undergraduates
live on campus. All freshmen are housed in one of 14 residences on
East Campus. These buildings range in occupancy size from 50
(Epworth—the oldest dorm, built in 1892 as "the Inn") to 190
residents (Gilbert-Addoms). Most of these are in the
Georgian style typical of the East Campus
architecture. Although the newer residence halls differ in style,
they still relate to East’s Georgian heritage. Two learning
communities, the Performing Arts Community and East Campus
Wellness, connect the residential component of East Campus with
students of similar academic and social interests. Similarly,
students in the
Focus program, a
first-year program that features courses clustered around a
specific theme, live together in the same residence halls.
The vast majority of sophomores reside on West Campus, but they may
also elect to live on Central Campus. Juniors and seniors can
choose to live on West or Central. West Campus contains six
quadrangles—the four along "Main" West were built in 1930’s, while
two newer ones have since been added. West Campus is home to three
learning communities including West Campus Wellness, a
substance-free section, and the Baldwin Scholars program. These
groups are allocated "sections" of the quadrangles, thereby living
close to one another, but still within the context of a larger
community. Also, 25 "selective living groups" are housed within
sections on West, including 15
fraternities. Nine of the 11 non-fraternity
selective living groups are coeducational. Central Campus provides
housing for approximately 1,050 students (of which about 850 are
undergraduate juniors or seniors) in 45 apartment buildings. About
half of Duke seniors, however, choose to live off campus.
Greek and social life
Cameron Crazies gathering in K-ville
About 30% of undergraduate men and about 40% of undergraduate women
belong to
fraternities and
sororities. While some of the 15 Interfraternity Council (IFC)
recognized fraternity chapters live in sections within West Campus
quads, the nine
Panhellenic Association
Sorority Chapters choose not to feature residential communities.
Seven
National
Pan-Hellenic Council (historically
African American) fraternities and
sororities hold chapters at Duke. Duke also has 11 Selective Living
Groups, or SLGs, on campus for students wanting self-selecting
living arrangements. Selective Living Groups at Duke are
residential groups similar to fraternities or sororities but are
generally co-ed, housed on West Campus, and unaffiliated with any
national organizations. Fraternity chapters frequently host social
events in their residential sections, which are often open to
non-members.
In the late-1990s, a new keg policy was put into effect that
requires all student groups to purchase kegs through Duke Dining
Services. According to administrators, the rule change was intended
as a way to ensure compliance with alcohol consumption laws as well
as to increase on-campus safety. Some students saw the
administration's increasingly strict policies as an attempt to
alter social life at Duke. As a result, off-campus parties at
rented houses became more frequent in subsequent years as a way to
avoid Duke policies. Many of these houses were situated in the
midst of family neighborhoods, prompting residents to complain
about excessive noise and other violations. Police have responded
by breaking up parties at several houses, handing out citations,
and occasionally arresting party-goers. The administration has been
very active in the past few years with efforts to help students
re-establish a robust, on-campus social life and has worked with
numerous student groups, especially the Duke University Union, to
feature a wide array of events and activities. In March, 2006, the
university also purchased 15 houses in the Trinity Park area that
Duke students had typically rented. These houses are now owned by
individual families who live in them, including the Dean of Duke
Chapel.

East Campus' Union building, home to
the freshman dining hall
Duke athletics, particularly basketball, is a significant component
of Duke's student life. Duke's students have been recognized as
some of the most creative and original fans in all of collegiate
athletics.
Students, often referred to as Cameron Crazies, show their support of the
men's basketball team by "tenting" for home games against key
ACC rivals, especially
UNC
. Because tickets to all varsity sports are
free to students, they line up for hours before each game, often
spending the night on the sidewalk. For a mid-February game against
UNC, some of the most eager students might even begin tenting
before spring classes begin. The total number of participating
tents is capped at 100 (each tent can have up to 12 occupants),
though interest is such that it could exceed that number if space
permitted.
Tenting involves setting up and inhabiting a
tent on the grass near Cameron Indoor Stadium
, an area known as Krzyzewskiville
, or K-ville for short. There are different
categories of tenting based on the length of time and number of
people who must be in the tent. At night, K-ville often turns into
the scene of a party or occasional concert. The men's basketball
coach,
Mike Krzyzewski, is known to
buy pizza on occasion for the inhabitants of the tent
village.
Activities
Student organizations
Approximately 370 student clubs and organizations operate on Duke's
campus. These include numerous
student government,
special interest, and
service organizations. Chartered by
the Board of Trustees, the most prominent amongst these are the
Duke Student Government and the Duke University Union. Duke Student
Government (DSG) subsequently charters and provides most of the
funding for other student groups, and represents students'
interests when dealing with the administration. The Duke University
Union (DUU) is the school's primary programming organization,
serving a center of social, cultural, intellectual and recreational
life. Cultural groups are also provided funding directly from the
university via the Multicultural Center as well as other
institutional funding sources. One of the most popular activities
on campus is competing in sports. Duke has 35 sports clubs and 29
intramural teams that are officially recognized. Performance groups
such as Hoof 'n' Horn, the South's oldest student-run musical
theater organization, student bands such as
Alan Davis Band, and
Duke University Improv are also
prominent on campus.
Cultural
groups on campus include: the Asian
Students Association, Blue Devils United (the student lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender group), Black Student Alliance, Diya (South Asian
Association), Jewish Life at Duke, Mi Gente
(Latino Student Association), International
Association/International Council, Muslim
Student Association, Native American
Student Coalition, Newman Catholic Student Center, and Students
of the Caribbean
.
Civic engagement
According to
The Princeton
Review, Duke is one of 81 institutions in the country with
outstanding community service programs. In 2008, Duke received the
Community Engagement Classification from
Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In February 2007,
Duke launched DukeEngage, a $30 million civic engagement program
that allows undergraduates to participate in an in-depth service
opportunity over the course of a summer or semester. The program's
scope has been called "unprecedented in U.S. higher education." In
addition, Duke students have created more than 30 service
organizations in Durham and the surrounding area. Examples include
a weeklong camp for children of cancer patients (
Camp Kesem) and a group that promotes awareness
about sexual health, rape prevention, alcohol and drug use, and
eating disorders (Healthy Devils). The Duke-Durham Neighborhood
Partnership, started by the Office of Community Affairs in 1996,
attempts to address major concerns of local residents and schools
by leveraging university resources. Another community project,
"Scholarship with a Civic Mission," is a joint program between the
Hart Leadership Program and the
Kenan Institute for Ethics. Other
programs include: Project CHILD, a tutoring program involving 80
first-year volunteers; an after-school program for at-risk students
in Durham that was started with $2.25 million grant from the
Kellogg Foundation in 2002; and
Project BUILD, a freshman volunteering group that dedicates 3300
hours of service to a variety of projects such as schools, Habitat
for Humanity, food banks, substance rehabilitation centers, and
homeless shelters. Some courses at Duke incorporate service as part
of the curriculum to augment material learned in class such as in
psychology or education courses (known as service learning
courses).
Student media
The
Chronicle, Duke's independent undergraduate daily
newspaper, has been continually published since
1905 and has a readership of about 30,000. Its editors are
responsible for selecting the term "
Blue Devil." The newspaper won Best in Show
in the tabloid division at the 2005 Associated Collegiate Press
National College Media Convention.
Cable
13, established in 1976, is Duke's student-run television
station. It stands as a popular activity for students interested in
film production and media.
WXDU-FM
, licensed in 1983, is the University's nationally
recognized, noncommercial FM radio station, operated by student and
community volunteers.
Alumni
Duke alumni are active through organizations and events such as the
annual Reunion Weekend and
Homecoming.
There are 75 Duke clubs in the U.S. and 38 international clubs. For
the 2005–06 fiscal year, Duke tied for third in alumni giving rate
among U.S. colleges and universities. A number of Duke alumni have
made significant contributions in the fields of government, law,
science, academia, business, arts, journalism, and athletics, among
others.
Richard Nixon, 37th
President of the United
States graduated with a law degree in 1937.
Elizabeth Dole, former United States Senator from North
Carolina and former President of the American Red Cross, Ricardo Lagos, 33rd President of Chile
from 2000 to
2006, Ron Paul, Texas
congressman
and two-time presidential candidate, and Jeffrey Zients, the first United States Chief
Performance Officer are among the most notable alumni with
involvement in politics. In the research realm, Duke
graduates who have won the
Nobel
Prize in Physics include
Hans
Dehmelt for his development of the
ion
trap technique,
Robert
Richardson for his discovery of
superfluidity in
helium-3, and
Charles
Townes for his work on
quantum
electronics.
Several alumni hold top positions at large companies. Current or
recent
Chairman,
President,
Vice
president, or
CEO of each of the following
Fortune 500 companies is a Duke alumnus:
BB&T (
John A. Allison IV),
Bear
Stearns (
Alan Schwartz),
Boston Scientific Corporation
(
Peter Nicholas),
Chesapeake Energy (
Aubrey McClendon),
Cisco Systems (
John Chambers),
ExxonMobil (
Rex Adams),
General Motors
Corporation (
Rick Wagoner),
Medtronic (Bill Hawkins),
Morgan Stanley (
John
J. Mack),
Norfolk Southern (
David R. Goode),
Northwest Airlines (
Gary L. Wilson),
PepsiCo,
Inc. (
Karl von der Heyden),
Pfizer (
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr.), and
Wachovia (
Robert K.
Steel).
Kevin Martin is Chairman of the
FCC, and
Rex Adams serves as the Chairman of
PBS. Another alumna,
Melinda Gates, is the co-founder of the $31.9
billion
Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, the nation's wealthiest charitable
foundation.
Prominent journalists include
Sean McManus, who is
president of both
CBS Sports and
CBS News.
Dan Abrams is
chief legal
correspondent for
NBC News, while
Charlie
Rose hosts his
own talk
show.
Judy Woodruff
is a senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on
PBS and was formerly NBC's White House
correspondent and an anchor for CNN. Jay Bilas is a
basketball analyst for
ESPN who co-hosts
College
GameDay, and also joins
CBS as a game
analyst for the
NCAA Men's
Basketball Championship.
Mike
Gminski,
Jim Spanarkel, and
Jay Williams are also
among the former basketball players who have become color
commentators for the sport.
John
Feinstein writes columns for
The Washington Post and has written
multiple sports-oriented books. Rik Kirkland serves as a Managing
Editor for the magazine
Fortune, while
Clay Felker is a founding editor of
New York.
John Harwood is the Chief Washington
Correspondent for CNBC
, a Senior
Contributing Writer for The
Wall Street Journal, and frequent panelist on Washington Week.
William C. Styron won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in
1968 for his novel
The Confessions of Nat
Turner and is also well-known for his 1979 novel
Sophie's Choice and
his 1992 memoir
Darkness Visible.
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was also awarded to
Anne Tyler for her 1988 novel
Breathing Lessons.
In the arts realm,
Annabeth Gish
(actress in the
X-Files and
The West Wing),
Randall Wallace (screenwriter,
producer, and director,
Braveheart,
Pearl Harbor,
We Were Soldiers) and
David Hudgins (television writer and producer,
Everwood,
Friday Night Lights)
headline the list. Management of professional athletic franchises
include
John Angelos (Executive Vice
President of the
Baltimore
Orioles),
Aubrey McClendon
(partial owner of the
Oklahoma
City Thunder),
John Canning,
Jr. (co-owner of
Milwaukee
Brewers), and
Stephen Pagliuca
(co-owner of
Boston Celtics).
Finally, several athletes have become stars at the professional
level, especially in basketball's
NBA.
Shane Battier,
Corey
Maggette,
Elton Brand,
Carlos Boozer,
Chris
Duhon, and
Grant Hill
are among the most famous.
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