On This Day highlights events that shaped the university. These moments mark groundbreaking research developments, breakthroughs in social change and basketball championships.
Our centennial coffee table book collects major moments and little-known stories of Duke’s history
On this Day, December 11, in 1924, James B. Duke signed the indenture that would allow Duke University to exist.
In speaking at Duke University in 1964, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged a capacity audience in Page Auditorium to take on the challenging fight against “economic deprivation and social isolation.”
The 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Dr. Robert Lefkowitz and his former postdoc Brian Kobilka of Stanford for their research on a family of receptors that help the body’s cells sense and respond to things like hormones, neurotransmitters and other signals.
On October 19, 2006, Duke engineering professor David Smith and his postdoc David Schurig unveiled the world’s first “invisibility cloak.”
Duke University released a plan to become climate neutral by 2024, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of James B. Duke signing the indenture of trust that established the institution.
More than 35,000 students, employees and alumni showed up for a Rolling Stones concert at Wallace Wade Stadium on Saturday, October 8, 2005. Concert-goers could purchase