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Duke University Libraries is the library system of Duke University, serving the university's students and faculty. The Libraries collectively hold some 6 million volumes. [1] The collection contains 17.7 million manuscripts, 1.2 million public documents, and tens of thousands of films and videos. The Duke University Libraries consists of the ...
Duke Humfrey's Library is the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. It is named after Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, who donated 281 books after his death in 1447. Sections of the libraries were restored and expanded in the 16th and 17th centuries, including the addition of a second storey, an ...
Duke spends more than $1 billion per year on research. [14] 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. [15]
Free application—Delivrez is a participative & free project, also available for Android platform (in French and English) A subset of Public bookcases presented on a map as part of the OpenBookCase.org project (archived 11 October 2019) Public bookcases map—A map with public bookcases for book exchange. The map is based on OpenStreetMap data.
Duke Energy is asking the N.C. Utilities Commission to let it control some solar plus storage systems in return for an incentive payment. Duke Energy is starting to experiment with virtual power ...
The Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the United States and second-largest library in the world with over 167 million holdings, including 39 million books and other printed recordings, 14.8 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music, and 72 million manuscripts
Julian Francis Abele (April 30, 1881 – April 23, 1950) was a prominent black American architect, and chief designer in the offices of Horace Trumbauer.He contributed to the design of more than 400 buildings, including the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University (1912–15), Philadelphia's Central Library (1917–27), [3] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1914–28). [4]
Duke Kunshan University (DKU; 昆山杜克大学) is a university in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. It was established in 2018 by a joint venture between Duke University and Wuhan University . [ 1 ] The university is an independent legal entity.