A Forever Duke Year2024 Impact Report Commencing publicly in February 2025, the MADE FOR THIS campaign for Duke University will seek to engage our global community of alumni and friends to help Duke meet its highest ambitions. Our campaign
address the world’s most significant challenges. We’re ever closer to a cure for HIV, Alzheimer’s and the most incurable diseases of our day. At Duke, our research drives our passions for healthier, more equitable communities. And our team-…
Every gift makes a world of difference the extras that go the extra mile for students. Every year, the Annual Fund provides the Duke student community with enriching, one- of-a-kind opportunities including financial aid awards, unique stude…
Blending her background in design with social justice, Whitney Robinson ’08 is changing maternal healthcare through a design lab that gives women of color a voice. Whitney Robinson ’08 never expected to start The Renee. She was working as a…
all of the resources needed for a student to have the full Duke experience. At Duke, financial aid ensures every student has access to a top-tier education bolstered by faculty-mentored research, small classes, entrepreneurship training, an…
Over $36 million in initial gifts will launch the Duke Climate Commitment, a new university-wide initiative focused on addressing climate change. The Duke Climate Commitment will unite the university’s education, research, operations, and p…
Despite decades of effort, humans still struggle to efficiently convert one source of energy into another. Steam motors, gasoline combustion and solar panels all convert less than half their fuel’s potential energy into energy we can use. B…
Duke’s Vahid Tarokh is using machine learning to predict catastrophic events before they occur. Is it possible to predict big, impactful events that hardly ever happen? Stock market crashes and volatility, major earthquakes and hurricanes,
It’s an old story: Pathogen sickens humans. Humans create medicine. Pathogen evolves a way around the medicine. Humans are back to square one. The resistance story has played out among many bacterial pathogens, from tuberculosis to those th…
When French professor Sandra Valnes Quammen A.M.’06 partnered to teach with the Spanish department, she realized the class would become unlike any other. It’s a typical Friday afternoon in Duke’s Language Building on West Quad, where studen…
Hari Garhwal M.B.A.’12 hopes his philanthropy, combined with the gifts of other alumni, will ensure Fuqua’s base of support continues to grow for years to come. Co-founder at Garhwal, Chan & Williams, a successful San Francisco-based wealth…
Everyone from the Jersey Shore remembers the storm. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy barreled through the Mid-Atlantic region with conditions ripe for destruction. The storm brought wind and rain with sound and fury. It made landfall in Brigantine,…