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Undergraduate Scholarships

  • "My ultimate, ultimate goal is to run a hospital," says Naomi Jean-Baptiste T'05. The youngest of six children of Haitian immigrants, she also envisions working with children and studying pediatrics or pediatric surgery. <more>
  • Eileene Braxton T'05 likes chick lit and magical realism, maintain movies and foreign flicks. She's thinking about law school. Or maybe a graduate creative-writing program. Or maybe becoming fashion editor of Vogue. Or maybe.... <more>

Graduate Fellowships

  • James H. Esterline enrolled in graduate school at age 18, and holds his own with graduate students, post-docs, and faculty in the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory and the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory. <more>
  • An intellectual journey that began in Salamanca, Spain, looped back to an eighth-grade social studies classroom in Rockville, MD, and took Jonathan B. Bird to Lima, Peru, and the controversy about the Catholic Church's responsibility to the poor. <more>

FOCUS

Associate Professor of English and of women's studies Priscilla Wald partners with a computer scientist, a law professor, an information scientist, and a geneticist to teach a module of FOCUS, Duke's innovative program for first-year students. Gifts to Arts & Sciences enable faculty to develop a module's interrelated seminars. <more>

Faculty support

  • "Leadership is about sticking your neck out, but not about being reckless," says Alma Blount, a lecturer in public policy studies and director of the Hart Leadership Program, which helps the students who are going to be the next generation of leaders develop their public selves. <more>
  • Economics Department Chair Thomas J. Nechyba says his discipline helps students develop a useful way of looking at the world and understanding such issues as why some nations are rich and others poor. <more>

The Undergraduate Writing Program

Mellon Teaching Fellow Parag Budhecha won the 2005 Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing for teaching a Writing 20 seminar. Small groups of first-year students learn to read closely and critically and to write creatively about what they've read. <more>

Teaching and learning spaces

Music Department Chair Scott Lindroth is both a prospector, looking for new and unusual sounds, and a discoverer of music that sometimes feels pre-made. <more>