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This list of Duke University people includes alumni, faculty, presidents, and major philanthropists of Duke University, which includes three undergraduate and ten graduate schools. The undergraduate schools include Trinity College of Arts and Sciences , Pratt School of Engineering , Sanford School of Public Policy , and Duke Kunshan University .
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. [10]
USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate launched on 15 August 1799. She was one of the original six frigates of the newly formed United States Navy and, along with her sister ships, was larger and more heavily armed than standard frigates of the period.
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Melinda Clarke - Margo Vincent (former CIA GS-14; intelligence, cryptography, linguistics) Margo Vincent was born in Bucharest, Romania; she emigrated to the United States at age six, and became a naturalized citizen. Margo developed a knack for learning languages and would eventually master six languages and become proficient in several others.
The Foundation commissioned American composer Norman Dello Joio to write a piece for the Duke University Band and its conductor Paul Bryan titled Variants on a Medieval Tune based on the melody In dulci jubilo. It was first performed on April 10, 1963. The Mary Duke Biddle Estate at Durham, North Carolina, was her home from 1935 until her death ...
Judge and dean, Duke University Law School: Edward H. Levi: 1928 President of the University of Chicago, United States Attorney General: John G. Levi: 1965 Chairperson of Legal Services Corporation: George Lewis: 1969 Trombonist, composer, author, Columbia University professor, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2002), AACM member Wendell Lim: 1983
Duke University's growth and academic focus have dramatically increased the university's reputation as an academic and research institution in recent years. In 1993, Duke's three-member team finished in first place in the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition , earning the title of the best collegiate undergraduate math ...