University Scholars Program
Cathy Davidson, Duke Professor speaks to the University Scholars at a USP Seminar on "Now You See It: How the Science of Attention Can Help Us Succeed in a World of Distractions" on Wednesday, April 3, 7:00 pm, room 240 Franklin Center.
USP Annual Spring Symposium, Saturday, March 2, 10:00 am, Smith Warehouse
University Scholar alumnus Jimmy Soni (Trinity '07) appeared at the Rare Book Room in Perkins Library with co-author and fellow Duke alum, Rob Goodman, to discuss their book, "Rome's Last Citizen."
Professional School University Scholar Kevin Momber (Nursing 2014) in the operating room.
Melinda French Gates, whose generous gift in 1998 helped launch the University Scholars Program, has been named the 2013 Commencement Speaker. Above: Melinda Gates and participants at a Sure Start Project initiative to promote maternal and newborn health in Kathghara Village, Fatehpur District, U.P., India on March 23, 2010. The women are playing a stacking game to promote family wellness.
Undergraduate University Scholar Yavuz Açikalin, Neuroscience and Economics double major, Trinity '14, combines his academic interests in true interdisciplinary fashion through his research on marketing to monkeys with Dr. Michael Platt's lab at Duke.
USP Seminar "Big Data and the Humanities," with Grad Unis James Johndrow and Allen Riddell, October 9, 2012
Law Student and University Scholar, Lesley Hamming, was spotlighted by Duke Law School for the work she has done via her nonprofit to bring together area youth and business professionals in the sciences.
Cultural Anthropology Graduate Uni Alum, Louisa Lombard, writes for the International Herald Tribune on her research and experience in South Sudan.
Check out our interview with our distinguished alumna, Anna Brown, Pratt 2011, who just returned to Duke to start medical school after earning her Master's degree at the University of Cambridge .