The BB&T Charitable Foundation donated $1.75-million to Duke's Values and Ethics in the Marketplace program, President Richard Brodhead announced Tuesday.
Although DukeEngage will not officially launch until next summer, some participants in last year's pilot program have already had life-altering experiences.
Learning from the ideas of others is an important part of diversity.
The University demonstrated this in the creation of a new Web site that seeks to outline some of the diversity efforts underway at Duke.
For the past 10 years, Latino/a Studies has been gradually gaining a presence on campus, but it has lacked a distinguished figure on its faculty to anchor it.
Two years after establishing a new Graduate Medical School in Singapore, Duke University Health System has now engaged in a strategic agreement with the Peking University Health Science Center.
Duke University Union and the Graduate and Professional Student Council butted heads Tuesday night over a student activity fee increase for graduate and professional students.