Gifts In Action...
Undergraduate Scholarships
For Iris Afonso T'07 and her sister, Anna Afonso T'09, education has meant learning the value of people — people, Iris says, who have "nurtured me, encouraged me, and always faithfully loved me"; who, Anna says, "inspire you, challenge you, amaze you, and endear themselves to you."
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Graduate Fellowships
Jessica Wood's plan was to go to graduate school for piano performance. The realization that she enjoyed practicing more than performing took her on an alternate reout to Duke's Ph.D. program in musicology and a dissertation on harpsichords and history.
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Endowed Professorships
A professor of both computer science and biochemistry, Bruce R. Donald does research on nanoscience, structural biology, computer graphics, and drug design. In college, he majored in Russian.
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Scholarship that Serves Society
Growing up in Compton, CA, home of the Bloods and the Crips, "it probably was inevitable" that James B. Duke Professor of Sociology Linda Burton P'00 would develop an academic interest in urban poverty.
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