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2. Graduate School of Duke University - Wikipedia

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   The Graduate School is administered by a dean, who with the advice an executive committee of the Graduate Faculty, coordinates the graduate offerings of all departments in the Arts and Sciences, the non-professional degree programs of the professional schools of divinity, law, business, environment and earth sciences, the basic science departments of the School of Medicine, and certain ...

3. Pratt School of Engineering - Wikipedia

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   The school was created by Duke's Board of Trustees in 1939. It was named in 1999 following a $35 million gift by Edmund T. Pratt Jr., a 1947 graduate and former chief executive of Pfizer. [5] The Duke University Pratt School of Engineering celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2014–2015. [6]

4. Duke University - Wikipedia

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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]

5. Rick Durrett - Wikipedia

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   Richard Timothy Durrett is an American mathematician known for his research and books on mathematical probability theory, stochastic processes and their application to mathematical ecology and population genetics.

6. Poppler (software) - Wikipedia

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   Poppler is a free and open-source software library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Its development is supported by freedesktop.org . Commonly used on Linux systems, [ 4 ] it powers the PDF viewers of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments .

7. Doctorate - Wikipedia

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   The PhD was adopted in the UK following a joint decision in 1917 by British universities, although it took much longer for it to become established. Oxford became the first university to institute the new degree, although naming it the DPhil. [137] The PhD was often distinguished from the earlier higher doctorates by distinctive academic dress.

8. Mathemalchemy - Wikipedia

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   Mathemalchemy (French: MathémAlchimie) is a traveling art installation dedicated to a celebration of the intersection of art and mathematics.It is a collaborative work led by Duke University mathematician Ingrid Daubechies [6] and fiber artist Dominique Ehrmann. [7]

9. Gary Bennett (educator) - Wikipedia

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   Duke University (MA, Ph.D) Gary G. Bennett Jr. [ 1 ] is the Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Global Health and Medicine at Duke University . [ 2 ] In November 2022, he was appointed Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences , effective February 2023.