Duke University

United States of America, North Carolina, Durham

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B. Duke established The Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke. Organized into two undergraduate and ten graduate and professional schools, Duke's research expenditures topped $657 million in ... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]

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  • Stanford medical school nabs top researcher from Duke

    Source: The Business Journal

    Harrington has been a faculty member since 1993 at the Duke University School of Medicine, where he is the Richard S. Stack MD Distinguished Professor in the division of cardiology. As a clinical investigator he has worked primarily in the area ...

  • Duke University’s Eternal Bonfire of the Vanities

    Source: Lewrockwell.com

    When we last left Duke University and its home of Durham, North Carolina, the bogus story fueled by the leftwing politics that governs Duke and Durham that three lacrosse players from Duke had beaten and raped Crystal Mangum was being put to rest.

  • Robert Harrington Leaving Duke for Stanford University

    Source: Forbes

    Robert Harrington will be leaving his position as the director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, a position he has held since 2006, to become the new chair of the department of medicine at Stanford University. Harrington was also the ...

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