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The J. Deryl Hart House is the official residence for the President of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.Built between 1933 and 1934 for Julian Deryl Hart, the three-story brick and timber Tudor Revival mansion is located on the university's West Campus, near Wallace Wade Stadium, at the crossroads of Duke University Road and Academy Road.
James B. Duke endowed the foundation on December 11, 1924, with $40 million. In the Indenture of Trust, Duke specified that he wanted the endowment to support Duke University, Davidson College, Furman University, Johnson C. Smith University; non-profit hospitals and children's homes in the two Carolinas; and rural United Methodist churches in North Carolina, retired pastors, and their ...
The Duke Endowment, which is a philanthropic foundation separate from the university, has awarded the university $100 million to fund a variety of student support and community engagement initiatives.
Mary Duke Biddle (A.B. 1907), daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke and Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, founder of the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation; Lisa Borders (A.B. 1979), chair of The Coca-Cola Foundation; vice president of Global Community Affairs at The Coca-Cola Company [101] Charlotte Bunch (A.B. 1966), author and human rights activist
Vincent Edward Price [1] is an American communication studies scholar, currently serving as the 10th president of Duke University in North Carolina since July 2017. He previously served as provost of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 2009 to 2017.
Besides North Carolina and South Carolina, Duke received the most applications from students in California, New York, Texas and Florida. Of the admitted students, 625 plan to enroll in Duke’s ...
[2] [3] The house takes its name from Douglas Knight, who served as president during the construction of the home, and was the first university president to live there. [3] [4] [5] University presidents Terry Sanford and Nannerl O. Keohane also lived at Knight House. [4] Knight House is 10,655 square feet, and cost $379,971 to build. [3]
Leland H. Hartwell, biologist, former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Virginia G. Piper Chair of Personalized Medicine and co-director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Sustainable Health at Arizona State University, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 [279]