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The Divinity School was founded in 1926 as the first graduate school at Duke, [1] following a large endowment by James B. Duke, a tobacco magnate, in 1924. The Divinity School carries on from the original founding of Trinity College in 1859, which provided free training for Methodist preachers in exchange for support from the church.
The Duke University Marine Laboratory (commonly referred to as the Duke Marine Lab) is a research facility and campus of Duke University on Piver's Island, [1] near Beaufort and the Outer Banks, North Carolina specializing in studying marine biology. It is part of the Nicholas School of the Environment's Division of Marine Science and ...
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, [7] is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan , it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States .
The Duke lacrosse case was a widely reported 2006 criminal case in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape.
Publicity about the scandal spread quickly. National media highlighted the class and racial differences between Mangum and the players. At an African & African-American Studies forum on March 29 at Duke, organizers invited students "to voice their frustration with the current situation and, it became apparent, with the university as a whole".
Brodhead in 2012. He left New Haven in 2004 to become President of Duke University, succeeding Nan Keohane.He was the first university president to live on campus since the 1960s, residing in the J. Deryl Hart House, the official presidential residence. [13]
Duke University is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed. This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on November 26, 2006.
Miriam Weeks, (born 1995) [4] known by her stage name of Belle Knox, [1] [5] [6] is an American former pornographic film actress.She is known for performing in pornography while studying at Duke University.