 Duke University is a private university founded
in 1924 by an endowment from James Buchanan Duke at the site of the former
Trinity College. The campus is one of the most beautiful in the world. The
neo-Gothic West Campus forms the hub of the University, with its impressive
chapel, delightful gardens, and modern student union. More serene is East
Campus, with its elegant Georgian-style buildings surrounded by grand oak
trees. Graduate students enjoy all the benefits of Duke's resources, including
the William R. Perkins Library, with more than 4 million volumes; extensive
athletic facilities; the Duke Forest, a 7,700-acre natural habitat adjoining
the campus; the Primate Center, the world's only university-based facility
for the study of primate anatomy, behavior, and history; and the Duke University
Marine Laboratory, located on the North Carolina coast.
The science departments and Medical Center are located on the north side of West Campus and are within easy walking distance of each other. Duke University draws students from all 50 states and more than 70 foreign countries, and enrolls about 6,500 undergraduates and about 6,500 graduate and professional students. Duke awards both undergraduate and graduate degrees in arts and sciences and in engineering, as well as graduate and professional degrees in law, divinity, medicine, nursing, forestry and environmental studies, and business. As a graduate student in the biological sciences, you join a diverse group of scholars working in a variety of disciplines.
Duke University is generally regarded as the leading institution of higher
education in the southeastern United States. The University combines a superb
scientific and intellectual atmosphere with a relaxed, comfortable environment
outside the laboratory. This combination offers an outstanding opportunity
for graduate students to train in the biological sciences. |