What's up @Duke
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Reflections Public Tour: Latin American Culture
June 25, 2019 - 1:30pm Nasher Museum of Art
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Murielle Elizéon & Tommy Noonan/Culture Mill
June 26, 2019 - 8:00pm to 9:30pm Rubenstein Arts Center, von der Heyden Studio Theater
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Plants of Distinction: Hydrangea Walk
June 26, 2019 - 10:00am to 11:30am Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Recent Speakers More
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Lisa Borders
“Discouragement doesn’t have to be debilitating. If anything, discouragement should drive you to open your own doors and design your own future.”
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President Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera
“We should not take democracies for granted. It’s becoming more and more common to see how they can fail.”
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Robert Satloff
“Is America better off trying to invest its resources to address problems in the Middle East before they become crises, or to protect ourselves from the export of those crises to the United States?”
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Karen M. Davis
“It is important to have women in technology fields. If everyone is the same on your team you do not leave room for innovation.”
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Kathy Tran
“There is not a finite amount of freedom in this country. This is not a pie where there are only so many pieces to give away.”
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General Joseph F. Dunford Jr.
“We work for the American people and we’re conscious of that.”
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Issac Bailey
“As a black journalist I’m walking a tight line between not making things worse by downplaying problems within the black community, and not validating racial stereotypes.”
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Tara Westover
“What my education gave me was perspective—that the life I was leading was just one of many possible lives—and the will to choose.”
Duke in Action
Duke’s Mission Impossible Challenge
Duke engineering students took on a tough challenge during a design skills course with Professor Greg Twiss. They built remote controlled amphibious all-terrain vehicles. The course culminated with a mission at Duke Gardens where the vehicles had to traverse land, water and air.
#DUKESOCIAL
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According to a new paper from Duke & University of Colorado in Denver, direct personal experience of flooding doesn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Last week, a House Judiciary subcommittee held the first congressional hearing in more than a decade on the subject… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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RT @JointMath: Ingrid Daubechies, @DukeU, will give the @amermathsoc Colloquium Lectures at #JMM2020. Here is an article about her https:/…
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Duke engineers are working on an app to help state prison officials prevent drones from delivering contraband to in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Duke in the World
With a medical school in Singapore, a campus in China and programs from Russia to Peru, Duke has become a global university, one whose home campus is filled with the perspectives of people from around the world.
Duke in Durham
Durham’s distinctive neighborhoods and thriving businesses combine the friendliness of a small city with tasty dining, lively arts and an entrepreneurial spirit. Durham is diverse, dynamic and a great place to live.