Without the funds to pay for the many expenses of an undergraduate education, college life can range from a struggle to a Herculean task. Add to that a lack of familiarity with campus life and its inner workings, the idea of thriving in college feels daunting for many first-generation (1G) students.
It’s hard to pinpoint the kind of experience that leads a young engineer to find their life’s calling. Usually it’s not on the dance floor. Yet for some, dance and other liberal arts opportunities are the X factor driving STEM students to Duke over other prestigious schools.
Civic engagement is a chief component of Duke’s ethos. It’s woven into everything that Duke is, has been and aspires to be. Now, 12 years in with DukeEngage, we’re committed to keep learning by doing.
After only two semesters, The Ruby is a place where fortuitous collisions and intentional collaborations are seeding creativity in a way never before seen at Duke.
An $85,000 donation and a gift of 62.5 acres of land. That’s what it took to move Duke University from rural Randolph County, North Carolina to Durham in 1892. Then, Duke was Trinity College, a small liberal arts school born out of a one-room schoolhouse founded by Methodists and Quakers, and Durham was a New South town riding the crest of a tobacco boom.
Nick Carnes thinks working-class Americans need seats in government, and that all of us deserve more than polarized, angry politics.
Social economist and Duke professor Sandy Darity has created the urgency for a research-based federal jobs guarantee in Washington. As the director of Duke’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, Darity is pushing social policy out of the classroom and into the conversations of our democracy.
In the four decades since it opened itself to the world and emerged as the fastest-growing economy on the planet, China has sought to diversity its educational system at all levels. The opportunity to engage with Chinese students and scholars on important issues has been especially alluring to higher education, with more than 2,300 cooperative academic projects established in China.
Clinical psychologist Terrie Moffitt has been monitoring the same group of people in the same study since the 1980s. If you're counting, that's almost 40 years. Listen now to an audio story about 1,037 babies, five decades of research and one Duke professor.
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