Duke University boasts a variety of scholarship programs based solely on merit, two of them being the University Scholars Program and the Robertson Scholars Program. The former was created in 1998 and serves to promote interdisciplinary study and the latter was created by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate named Julian Robertson in 2000. The Chronicle's Annie Wang asked a scholar from each program—Joyce Lau and Jeannie Yim, respectively—enough to figure out the key differences between the two.
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