DKU has a relatively new team, as the DKU Football Club was founded in 2021. The DKU women's soccer team is currently in the process of joining the women's SCFL.
Liu has “a strong belief in international education” and “witnessed firsthand how an international education can change people's perspectives and broaden their horizons,” due to his academic background in China, Europe and the United States.
At Duke Kunshan University, running has become a way for students to connect with the local Kunshan community, explore China and compete locally and nationally — all without needing to speak a word of Mandarin.
Throughout last spring and summer, DKU administrators said that classes would return in-person, but some classes are still only being offered online this fall.
Duke Kunshan University, originally established in September 2013 as a partnership between Duke and Wuhan University, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.
The Class of 2027 is DKU’s “first wholly in-person class since 2019,” according to Dean of Student Affairs Jill Creighton.
With Duke Kunshan University’s inaugural commencement ceremony approaching, seniors from DKU’s first-ever graduating class looked back on their four years attending Duke’s joint venture program.
Under Duke Kunshan University’s new COVID-19 testing policy, two to three missed surveillance tests can lead to academic suspension, demotion from leadership positions and a permanent note on students’ records.
Rising sophomores and the incoming class of first-years will instead be provided with in-person academic opportunities via customized DKU Global Sites for fall 2022.
Duman, a global health and biology major, plans to pursue graduate study in medical anthropology.
The starkly different outcomes for DKU’s international students have been exacerbated by border closures, visa logistics and the challenge of paying for college amidst the pandemic.
“I didn’t really have another option,” first-year Liam Powell wrote.
Two Duke Kunshan University and two Duke students formed one of two winning teams in this year’s U.S.-China Student Challenge, a policy competition sponsored by the Georgetown University Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues.
Against the odds of the COVID-19 pandemic, labor shortages and extreme weather, the 22 buildings of the second phase of Duke Kunshan’s campus have steadily risen out of an empty field.
Whether we acknowledge it or not, we all implicitly understand the clout involved with a big-name higher-education institution's degree.
In the news media we read about the economy, politics, and nowadays, a lot about COVID-19. On social media, we talk about protesting, voting and supporting one another. What we are not discussing enough is environmental issues.
On the morning of Nov. 4 in China, laptop screens on the Duke Kunshan campus glowed with the red-and-blue Electoral College map for the U.S. election. WeChat Moments—China’s equivalent of a Facebook feed—showed screenshots, words of encouragement and amateur commentary on the state of the race.
At DKU, and in China at large, COVID-19 is not regarded an ever-present existential threat as such. Signs on campus encouraging social distancing remain but have all but lost their authority.
I didn’t think I’d be spending the first month of my first year of college quarantined in Chinese hotels, but here I am.
“We are pleased to announce that Duke leadership has determined that they are able to welcome to the Duke campus for the fall 2020 semester those DKU students in the classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024.”
