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14 unusual facts about Duke University


CASPA

It is currently used by nearly 150 schools, including the top 5 PA Schools: Duke University, Emory University, George Washington University, University of Utah, and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Culture of North Carolina

There are also a number of private colleges, for example Duke University in Durham and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem

Dominic Crotty

Since retiring from rugby he has completed a PhD in biomedical engineering at Duke University in the United States, and he now works for GE Healthcare.

Ivanhoe Broadcast News

Thomas, Ivanhoe's current publisher/president, is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Florida College of Law and began her career as an attorney.

J. Curtis Counts

While in law school, his girlfriend and future wife, Virginia Shugart, was the roommate of Pat Ryan, the girlfriend and future wife of Richard Nixon, and they first met each other at a party following the 1939 Rose Bowl in which Counts' USC team beat Duke University, where Nixon was attending law school.

Junius H. Rose High School

Hurt, a native of West Virginia, had once played on the basketball team of Duke University.

King Deco

Jordanian-born Dana Salah began DJing, producing and songwriting shortly after moving to the United States to enroll in Duke University.

North Carolina's 4th congressional district

The presence of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University, as well as a large African-American population in Durham County help contribute to the liberal nature of the 4th district.

R2C2

Carroll and his company had been previously sued by Blue Macellari at Duke University for copyright infringement, false designation of origin, consumer fraud and deception.

Randolph County, North Carolina

Randolph County was the original location of what became Duke University.

Braxton Craven - Educator and second president of Trinity College, which later moved to Durham and became Duke University

Richard H. Bassett

Richard H. Bassett was born February 21, 1900 on the campus of Trinity College (now Duke University) in Durham, North Carolina.

Robert Maguire

Robert Maguire began his education at Duke University, but like so many others of his generation, left for service in World War II.

Thad Stem, Jr.

He went to school at Duke University, but left during his fourth year several credits away from earning his degree.


A News

The program, written at Duke University by Steve Daniel and Tom Truscott, was released on a tape given out at the June 1980 USENIX conference held at the University of Delaware.

Andrew D. Luster

Luster received a B.S, from Duke University in 1981, a PhD from Rockefeller University in 1987, and a MD from Cornell University Medical College in 1988, He had a clinical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School.

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) is elated to learn that his stepson, Trent Pierce (Brandon T. Jackson), has been accepted to attend Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Bob Mischak

In an October 1953 game against Duke at the Polo Grounds in New York City, Mischak made an improbable play to seal a 14-13 Army victory that was chronicled in David Maraniss' biography of Vince Lombardi, When Pride Still Mattered.

Bonnie Marranca

She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship in the UK, and Fulbright Senior Scholar who has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Duke University, the University of California-San Diego, Free University of Berlin, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona Institute for Theatre .

Cary Lady Clarets

The team was coached by Jay Howell, Director of Coaching at the Capital Area Soccer League in Raleigh, North Carolina, and features many players with local amateur or collegiate affiliations from Triangle area high schools and universities such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State University.

Charles Bowser

Bowser played his college career at Duke University, setting the school's single season and career sacks record at 17.5 and 22, respectively.

Charles Donagh Maginnis

Moreover, the design of Gasson Tower at Boston College is considered a predecessor of the dominant towers of collegiate Gothic campuses such as Harkness Tower at Yale University and the chapel tower at Duke University by Horace Trumbauer of 1930-35.

Cho-yun Hsu

He is an Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh where he taught from 1970 until his retirement in 1998, and has served in honorary positions in several universities including Duke University, Nanjing University, and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Christopher Rollston

He has lectured and delivered invited papers in a number of venues, including Vanderbilt University, George Washington University, the University of Michigan, Brown University, Duke University, Tel Aviv University, Baylor University and the University of Wisconsin.

Cornell Club of New York

Membership in the Cornell Club is restricted to alumni, faculty, and students of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, as well as alumni of a short list of affiliated schools, such as Brown, Colgate, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, Tulane, and Wake Forest.

David Theo Goldberg

Together with Cathy Davidson of Duke University, Goldberg founded the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) to advance partnerships between the human sciences, arts, social sciences and technology and supercomputing interests for advancing research, teaching and public outreach.

Elizabeth Mertz

She has a PhD in Anthropology from Duke University (where she studied with Virginia R. Domínguez and William O'Barr) and a JD from Northwestern University (where she was the John Paul Stevens scholar and a Wigmore Scholar).

Ellerbe Creek

The creek flows through many of Durham's most historic and culturally significant areas, including Ninth Street, Downtown Durham, beneath Durham Athletic Park, The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, the Museum of Life and Science, the old Durham Landfill, Duke University East Campus, Northgate Mall, and towards the end crosses Fishdam Road.

Ernest Mario

Dr. Mario has served as a trustee of Duke University from 1989 to 2007, and chaired the Duke University Health System board of trustees from its inception until 2007.

FORA.tv

FORA.tv's content partners include: The Asia Society, Aspen Institute, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Council on Foreign Relations, Duke University, Georgetown University, Heritage Foundation, The Hoover Institution, Transatlantic Institute and the World Affairs Council.

Frederick A. de Armas

De Armas holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1969), and has taught at Louisiana State University (1969–1988), Pennsylvania State University (where he was Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature) (1988–2000) and has been a visiting professor at Duke University (1994).

Giles sisters

They were from rural North Carolina and were the first female graduates of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences (later Duke University) in 1878, well before the school formally admitted women.

Gordon Brody

He graduated from Duke University and he completed a hand fellowship at Ralph K. Davies Medical Center in San Francisco, California.

Jay Golden

Jay S. Golden is the Director of the Duke Center for Sustainability & Commerce at Duke University and an Associate Professor of the Practice for Sustainable Systems Analysis at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.

Jeff McInerney

McInerney subsequently served as an assistant coach at Troy University, Georgia Southern University, the University of Tulsa, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Oregon State University, Duke University, the University of Southern California and the University of Rhode Island.

John E. Mack

He was illustrated by cartoonist Roz Chast in a four-page color strip, Aliens, Ahoy!, published in Duke University's DoubleTake magazine, Winter 1999 issue.

Keystone National High School

Keystone graduates have been accepted at many major universities and colleges, including Calvin College, Dartmouth, New York University, Duke, Notre Dame, Rice, Stanford, Yale, and West Point Academy.

Lawrence Atkinson

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University held an exhibition entitled The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-18 from September 30, 2010 through January 2, 2011 that includes his work.

Martin Fridson

He has been a guest lecturer at the graduate business schools of Babson College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Fordham University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Rutgers University and the Wharton School of Business, as well as the Amsterdam Institute of Finance.

Pamela St. John

Her work Maithuna Sextet, commissioned by the North Carolina Music Teachers' Association, was performed by the Ciompi Quartet at Duke University; Forest Spirit Suite, also performed by Ciompi, includes the folk instruments didgeridoo and rainstick.

R. Sanders Williams

He then earned an M.D. from Duke University's Medical School in 1974, later completing a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a cardiology fellowship at Duke.

Renaissance Computing Institute

Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) was launched in 2004 as collaborative institute involving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State University.

Robert Tally

Tally received his M.A. in literature and Ph.D. in critical and cultural studies from the University of Pittsburgh, a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law, and an A.B. (philosophy) from Duke University.

Sarah MacKenzie

Mac received her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Minnesota and her Juris Doctor degree from Duke University, and was subsequently stationed in Bosnia during the war there.

Sheldon Pinnell

Sheldon Pinnell is an American dermatological scientist and J. Lamar Callaway Professor of Dermatology, Emeritus at Duke University.

Stanley Aronowitz

With Fredric Jameson and John Brenkman, he is a founding editor of Duke University's Social Text, a journal that is subtitled "Theory, Culture, Ideology."

Tami Gaines

Both Duke University and Stanford University did studies and agreed with this report, that though post-traumatic stress syndrome is usually associated with catastrophic events such as war, parents of prematurely born babies who suffer or who die can suffer PTSS as well.

Ted Yamamori

After graduating from Nanzan University in 1956, he emigrated to the United States to study at Texas Christian University and Duke University.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

Thalmann algorithm

It was developed by Capt. Edward D. Thalmann, M.D., USN, who did research into decompression theory at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Navy Experimental Diving Unit, the State University of New York at Buffalo and Duke University.

University of Economics, Prague

In 2010/2011, VŠE cooperated with 159 partner universities (including Sciences Po Paris, Universität zu Köln, Tilburg University, Stockholm School of Economics, University of St. Gallen, London School of Economics and Political Science, Tel Aviv University, University of Queensland, McGill University, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

University of Health Sciences, Lahore

Prominent among them are Duke University, University of Texas Houston, University of Pittsburgh, Center of Disease Control (CDC) Atlanta, University of Liverpool, University of Glasgow, University of Nottingham, University of Reim France and University of Muenster Germany.

Van Orden v. Perry

The appeal of the 5th Circuit's decision was argued by Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and the Alston & Bird Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law, who represented Van Orden on a pro bono basis.

Weitao Yang

Weitao Yang (born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, March 31, 1961) is a Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry in Duke University.