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Graduating University Scholars Meet with Melinda Gates
Gates Meets with Students, Reporters Prior to Commencement Speech May 12, 2013 | by David Jarmul from Duke News Melinda Gates at Commencement 2013 On Saturday, May 11, 2013, Melinda Gates met with the University Scholars and with DukeEngage students Durham, NC – Melinda Gates called on Duke graduates Sunday to “change the way you [...]
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Uni alum Jimmy Soni (Trinity ’07) co-authors book, “Rome’s Last Citizen”
Among other things, University Scholar alumnus Jimmy Soni (Trinity ’07) has been busy promoting his book, Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of (St. Martin’s Press, October 2012) with co-author and fellow Duke alum Rob Goodman. The pair most recently appeared on a NY Times TimesCast Live Video on December 11, 2012 (See “Good [...]
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Kevin Momber Finds His Path in Nursing
Professional School University Scholar Kevin Momber (Nursing 2014) took a circuitous route before ending up in a Master’s degree program in Nurse Anesthesia at Duke’s School of Nursing. Duke Magazine‘s November 2012 issue featured a profile on Kevin. Click here for the full story, “On the Plaza: Finding His Path in Nursing.”
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Melinda Gates to speak at Commencement 2013
Melinda Gates, Trinity ’86 and Fuqua ’87, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will be Duke University’s 2013 Commencement Speaker. The Gates’ helped launch the University Scholars Program in 1998 with a generous gift of $20 million, the first of many extraordinary gifts that the Gates’ have provided to Duke to help support [...]
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Yavuz Açikalin, Trinity ’14, Researches Marketing to Monkeys
University Scholar and third year undergraduate, Yavuz Açikalin, was featured on the Duke Research Blog for his research in the Platt Lab on whether branding can influence monkey reward preferences. Yavuz’s independent research project draws on his knowledge developed through his double major in Economics and Neuroscience, which is providing a strong interdisciplinary foundation for [...]
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Phyllis Mbewe: Engineering for Environmental Health
Uni alumna Phyllis Mbewe graduated Duke with a Bachelors of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in May 2012. She is now at the University of South Carolina pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Duke Magazine featured a story on Phyllis when she matriculated to Duke in Fall 2008 and again just [...]
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Lesley Hamming Founds Nonprofit to Spark Interest in Nanotechnology
University Scholar and third year law student, Lesley Hamming, was featured on Duke Law’s website for her outstanding work with area youth. In 2008, Lesley founded a nonprofit camp, NanoBusiness Talent, in an effort to bring interested high school students together with scientists from area businesses and organizations with an emphasis on nanotechnology. The camp [...]
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Anthropologist and Uni, Louisa Lombard, Blogs from South Sudan
Uni alumna, Louisa Lombard, who just completed her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Duke in summer 2012 wrote a blog that was featured in the International Herald Tribune earlier this week. You can view her dispatch from Wau, South Sudan here: http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/south-sudan-like-khartoum-oppresses-ethnic-minority/. Louisa keeps a regular blog on her research, thoughts, and experiences in Central [...]
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