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WXDU. / 36.035694°N 79.07972°W / 36.035694; -79.07972. WXDU (88.7 FM) is a non-commercial campus radio station broadcasting a college radio format. Licensed to Durham, North Carolina, United States, the station serves the Research Triangle area. The station is owned by Duke University.
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Duke University.Founded in 1838, it is the original school of the university. Currently, Trinity is one of five undergraduate degree programs at Duke, the others being the Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering, Nicholas School of the Environment, School of Nursing, and Duke Kunshan University.
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States.The term Ivy League is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that belong to the league, which are globally-renowned as elite colleges associated with academic excellence, highly selective admissions, and social elitism.
Duke Building. Opened in 1927, the Duke Building is home to the Mathematics and Statistics Department, the Office of Academic Advising, in addition to classrooms and student gathering spaces. It is one of the oldest buildings on campus and is located along Scott Plaza and in proximity to Fonville Fountain. Koury Business Center
October 5, 1978 [3] Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit ( / djuːˈkeɪn / dew-KAYN; also known as Duquesne University or Duquesne) is a private Catholic research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in ...
Duke University Hospital is a 1048 -bed acute care facility and an academic tertiary care facility located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Established in 1930, it is the flagship teaching hospital for the Duke University Health System, a network of physicians and hospitals serving Durham County and Wake County, North Carolina, and surrounding areas, as well as one of three Level I ...
Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku (August 24, 1890 – January 22, 1968) was a Hawaiian competition swimmer who popularized the sport of surfing. A Native Hawaiian , he was born to a minor noble family less than three years before the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom .
Immediately following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the Silent Vigil (also shortened to the Vigil) was a social protest at Duke University that not only demanded collective bargaining rights for AFSCME Local 77, the labor union for nonacademic employees, but also advocated against racial discrimination on campus and in the surrounding community of Durham, North Carolina.