A $10 million gift from Laurene and Scott Sperling, through their Sperling Family Charitable Foundation, will name Duke University’s Sperling Center for Jewish Studies, President Vincent E. Price announced Aug. 4. The gift will endow two professorships in Jewish studies, a faculty support fund in the Sperling Center, a fund for graduate education and postdoctoral […]

A $5 million gift from Caryn Seidman-Becker will establish the Becker Government Leadership Initiative at the Sanford School of Public Policy to encourage and support Duke student interest in public service, especially at the federal level. The gift will create a six-year pilot program designed to identify, recruit, inspire, and support exceptional undergraduate students from their first […]

BY EMILY FORD A trailblazing hospital executive who transformed large health systems and championed innovation, Nancy Schlichting ’76, has spent her career elevating the role of nurses in delivering better care. Now, together with her wife, Pam Theisen, Schlichting is extending that commitment through a $250,000 gift to establish the Nursing Innovation Fund at Duke Health […]

BY EMILY FORD A career dedicated to improving health in partnership with communities has culminated in a transformational gift by Duke University School of Medicine Professor Emeritus J. Lloyd Michener, M.D., to carry forward work that he and his wife championed for years. Michener and his late wife, Gwendolyn C. Murphy, Ph.D., devoted their careers […]

Duke University has received a $12 million award from The Duke Endowment to fully endow three professorships at Duke Law School. The grant honors individuals who have made a significant impact on the Duke Law community and directly strengthens the core of the Duke Law experience—the faculty. In addition to providing tools needed to recruit […]

Nicholas School of the Environment will collaborate with conservationists in Africa to assess and expand upon efforts to restore degraded ecosystems through native species reintroduction. Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and African Parks, a leading conservation nonprofit organization based in Johannesburg, South Africa, have launched a research partnership that will work to better […]

By Emily Ford When Mara Serbanescu, MD, arrived at Duke as a junior faculty member, she found an environment deeply focused on physician-scientist development. That experience shaped the dual roles that are now defining her career — caring for critically ill patients while researching why some experience more complications than others in the intensive care unit. Physicians who also conduct research are uniquely positioned to advance human health. […]

With advanced computing, semiconductors and AI hardware essential to national competitiveness, a transformative investment positions Duke to lead in computer engineering. A landmark gift from David Lamond ’97, J.D.’06 and Kelsey Lamond ’06, Pierre and Christine Lamond, and the Lamond Family Foundation has named the Pierre R. Lamond Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at […]

Duke University has received $11 million from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation, a private family foundation based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on educating engineers for the most pressing challenges of today. The award brings the foundation’s total support for the program to more than $30 million.  Specifically, the award will benefit the A. […]

Duke University has received $10.45 million in the form of a new award and donor pledges to launch a one-of-a-kind, climate-focused program for postdoctoral fellows. The program is made possible by the collective effort of The Duke Endowment, which contributed $5 million, and Duke donors Julie ‘81 and Ritson ‘81 Ferguson and Mark ‘80 and […]