Duke University

Duke University is a private university in Durham, North Carolina.

The campus

Duke owns 212 buildings on 9,432 acres (38 km²) of land. That includes the Duke Forest and the Sarah P. Duke Gardens.

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Acre - Km²

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Main campuses

West Campus

West campus is the heart of Duke University. All of the sophomores, along with some number of juniors and seniors, live on West, and most of the academic and administrational centers also reside there. West campus includes Science Drive, which is composed of the science and engineering labs and classrooms. Most of the campus eateries are on West, as are the major sports facilities.

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Science - Engineering

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Main West campus has Duke Chapel at its center. To the left are the main residential quads, while the main academic quad, main library, and medical center are to the right. West campus residential life operates under the "quad model".

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East Campus

East Campus functions as the freshman campus since all the freshmen - and only freshmen (excepting upperclassmen serving as Resident Assistants) - are housed on East in order to build class unity and promote a substance free environment. The campus is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away from West Campus, with a bus system linking the two. Several academic departments are housed on East Campus, including the Art History, History and Women's Studies departments. The Mary Duke Biddle Music Building can also be found on East.

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Bus - Art History - History - Women's Studies - Music

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East Campus is a fully self-sufficient campus, with the freshman dining hall, a library, auditorium, theater, gym, tennis courts, and academic buildings. It is also only a 5 minute walk from downtown Durham.

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East Campus used to serve as the Women's College at Duke, but in 1972, the Woman's College merged with the all men's Trinity College, then on West Campus, to form the undergraduate Trinity College of Arts and Sciences which exists today..

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1972 - Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

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Central Campus

Central campus houses juniors and seniors as well as some professional students. Central campus residences are apartment style. Central campus also houses the Nasher Museum of Art and some other departments, such as the Residence Life and Housing Services.

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Professional - Apartment - Nasher Museum of Art

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Central campus is now undergoing a massive restructuring that will begin with the replacement of the outdated apartments. A key goal of the Central renovations is to reintegrate the area with the rest of the Duke campus, as it is now connected to the other campuses by a circuitous, inefficient bus route.

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Key places

Duke Forest

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Established in 1931, today Duke Forest conisists of 7,600 acres (31 km²) in six divisions.

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1931 - Duke Forest

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The forest is used extensively for research and includes the Aquatic Research Facility, Forest Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS-I) research facility, two permanent towers suitable for micrometerological studies, and other areas designated for animal behavior and ecosystem study, including the Duke University Primate Center.

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Micrometerological - Duke University Primate Center

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Primate Center

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The Duke University Primate Center was founded in 1966 and is the world's largest sanctuary for rare and endangered prosimian primates. The 85 acres (344,000 m²) of Duke Forest that the Primate Center inhabits contain about 250 animals of 15 different species of lemurs and some lorises as well.

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Duke University Primate Center - 1966 - Prosimian - Primates - Lemurs - Lorises

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Sarah P. Duke Gardens

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The Sarah P. Duke Gardens lie between West Campus and the apartments of Central Campus and were established in the early 1930s. The Gardens occupy 55 acres (223,000 m²) and consists of four major parts: the original Terraces and their immediate surroundings, the H.L. Blomquist Garden of Native Plants (a representation of the flora of the southeastern United States), and the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum (devoted to plants of eastern Asia). There are five miles (8 km) of allées, walks, and pathways throughout the Doris Duke Center and surrounding gardens.

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Sarah P. Duke Gardens - 1930s - Eastern Asia

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Marine Lab

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The Duke University Marine Lab is on Pivers Island within the Outer Banks of North Carolina, only 150 yards across the channel from the town of Beaufort, NC. Duke's interest in the area began in the early 1930s and the first buildings were erected in 1938. The resident faculty represent the disciplines of oceanography, marine biology, marine biomedicine, marine biotechnology, and coastal marine policy and management.

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Duke University Marine Lab - Pivers Island - North Carolina - Beaufort, NC - 1930s - 1938 - Oceanography - Marine biology - Biomedicine - Biotechnology

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The Marine Laboratory is a member of the National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML).

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Medical Center

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The Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) combines one of the top-rated hospitals and one of the top-ranked medical schools in the United States. Founded in 1930, the Medical Center now occupies 7.5 million square feet (700,000 m²) in 90 buildings on 210 acres (850,000 m²).

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Duke University Medical Center - Hospitals - Medical schools - 1930

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Architecture

Duke is sometimes called "the Gothic Wonderland," a nickname referring to the Gothic revival architecture of its main campus (West Campus). Much of the campus was designed by Julian Abele, one of the first African-American architects. The residential quadrangles are of an early and somewhat unadorned design, while the buildings in the academic quadrangles show influences of the more elaborate late French and Italian styles. Its freshman campus (East Campus) is composed of buildings in the Georgian architecture style.

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Gothic revival - Julian Abele - African-American - Architects - French - Italian - Georgian architecture

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The stone used for the West Campus has seven primary colors and seventeen different shades of color. One construction official wrote the architect that the stone has "an older, more attractive antique effect" and a "warmer and softer coloring than the Princeton stone" and that it was especially good since it could be "laid to give a shadowline underneath the pointing which added tremendously to an artistic look."http://www.lib.duke.edu/archives/holdings/campus/dukestone.htm/ James B. Duke initially suggested the use of stone from a quarry in Princeton, New Jesey but later amended the plans to use stone from a local quarry to save on costs.

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Primary colors - Construction - Architect - Princeton stone

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The Duke Chapel stands at the heart of West Campus, and is at the center of religion at Duke. Constructed in 1930 through 1935, the Chapel seats about 1,600 people. The tower is a very large and menacing looking structure. With its 210-foot (64 m) tower, it is one of the tallest buildings in Durham County, North Carolina.

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Duke Chapel - 1930 - 1935 - Durham County, North Carolina

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Recent and upcoming construction projectshttp://www.architect.duke.edu/

• Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (CIEMAS), $97 million, opened August 2004.http://www.pratt.duke.edu/about/fciemas.php
• New East Campus dorm, $20 million, opened August 2005.http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/03/4045d0571e893
• French Science Center, $115 million, in progress.http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2004/02/building_0204.html
• Westbrook addition to Divinity School, $22 million. opened Spring 2005.http://www.divinity.duke.edu/noteworthy/2004.12.06-BuildingsNamed.aspx
• Addition to Law School. $20 million. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2004/02/building_0204.html
• Major renovation and expansion of Perkins Library, $55 million. http://www.lib.duke.edu/perkproj/overview.html
• Rubenstein Hall at Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, $12 million.http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/newbuilding/index.html
• Nasher Museum of Art, $23 million, opened October 2005.http://www.duke.edu/web/duma/new_museum/index_alblums.htm
• West Campus plaza, estimated at about $10 million, opens by Fall 2006.http://www.studentaffairs.duke.edu/projects/plaza

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• The overall cost of all planned construction projects is about $375 million.