Duke University's new partnership increasees access for high-achieving, low-income students

Duke University is partnering with QuestBridge, a California-based nonprofit that helps connect high-achieving, low-income students with selective universities by providing a single, digital meeting point where prospective students can find member universities, scholarship providers, enrichment programs, and employers. Students who apply and are accepted to Duke through the QuestBridge application process will receive full scholarships.

2015 was a success for American Underground and our economy

2015 was a successful year for The American Underground Companies. Triangle locations created more than 400 jobs, generated 40 percent more investment capital than a year earlier, and helped drive diversity with 30 percent of its tenants run by women and 22 percent led by minorities. Both figures are far above national averages.

Duke-Durham Community Members Named 2012 "Sammie" Winners

Six members of the Duke-Durham community have been selected as 2012 "Sammie" award winners, named for Samuel DuBois Cook, a political scientist, educator and human rights activist and the first African-American faculty member at Duke. All honorees were chosen in appreciation of their work in furthering Cook's legacy.

The honorees are: Dr. Evelyn Schmidt, the director of Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham; William J. Griffith, Duke's vice president for student affairs emeritus; Allison Curseen, a doctoral candidate at Duke who researches 19th century American literature; Alexandra Swain, a Duke junior and Durham native, is majoring in political science and music; Chandra Guinn, director of Duke's Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture since 2005; and Rev. William C. Turner Jr., a professor of the practice of homiletics and the pastor of Mt. Level Baptist Church in Durham.