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Duke spends more than $1 billion per year on research. [15] As of 2024, 16 Nobel laureates and 3 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university. Duke alumni also include 50 Rhodes Scholars. Duke is the alma mater of one president of the United States (Richard Nixon) and fourteen living billionaires, as of early 2020. [16]
In 1990, Duke geneticists invented a three-minute test to screen newborns for over 30 metabolic diseases at one time. This practice has since become standard worldwide. In 1992, Duke's cancer center became the first hospital to develop an outpatient bone marrow transplant program. That same year, the hospital performed its first lung and heart ...
In 2005, Historic LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. merged with Province Healthcare Company to form the new public company, LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. [5] In May 2011, DLP Healthcare, LLC, a joint venture of Duke University Health System and LifePoint Hospitals completed the acquisition of MedCath Partners, LLC. [6]
Once certified, the new union will be one of the largest in North Carolina and one of the only representing graduate students in the South.
The following is a list of Duke Blue Devils men's basketball head coaches. The Blue Devils have had 21 coaches in their 110-season history. [1] The team is currently coached by Jon Scheyer. Former head coach Mike Krzyzewski Wilbur Wade Card – Duke's first head coach
The walkout at Duke's graduation was the latest manifestation of protests that have roiled U.S. campuses as students call for universities to divest from arms suppliers and other companies ...
A vision statement is a high-level, [1] inspirational [1] statement of an idealistic emotional future of a company or group. Vision describes the basic human emotion that a founder intends to be experienced by the people the organization interacts with. Vision statements may fill the following functions for a company: [2]
The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949 (1993) Durden, Robert F. "Donnybrook at Duke: The Gross-Edens Affair of 1960: Part I." North Carolina Historical Review 71.3 (1994): 331-357. Gifford, James F. Jr. Undergraduate Medical Education and the Elective System: Experience with the Duke Curriculum, 1966 – 1975 (Duke University Press, 1978).