Duke University

Duke University is a private, non-profit, research university located in Durham, North Carolina. ^[1]

Abigail Johnston

Abigail "Abby" Louise Johnston (born November 16, 1989, in Upper Arlington, Ohio) is a retired American diver.

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Above the Law (website)

Above the Law (often abbreviated ATL) is a news website about law, law schools, and the legal profession.

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Academic Ranking of World Universities

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as Shanghai Ranking, is one of the annual publications of world university rankings.

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ACT (test)

The ACT (originally an abbreviation of American College Testing) Name changed in 1996.

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Adam Silver

Adam Silver (born April 25, 1962) is an American lawyer and businessman, who is currently the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist.

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Alexander Rosenberg

Alexander Rosenberg (born 1946) is an American philosopher, and the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University.

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All-America

An All-America team is a hypothetical American sports team composed of outstanding amateur players.

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Alma Thomas

Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American Expressionist painter and art educator.

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Alumni association

An alumni association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students (alumni).

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An alumni magazine is a magazine published by a university, college, or other school or by an association of a school's alumni (and sometimes current students) in order to keep alumni abreast of fellow alumni and news of their university, often with an implicit goal of fundraising.

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American Football Coaches Association

The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) is an association of over 11,000 American football coaches and staff on all levels.

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Analytics in higher education

Academic analytics is basically defined as the process of evaluating and analysing organisational data received from university systems for reporting and decision making reasons (Campbell, & Oblinger, 2007).

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

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Annabeth Gish

Annabeth Gish (born March 13, 1971) is an American actress.

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Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic.

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Art Heyman

Arthur Bruce Heyman (June 24, 1941 – August 27, 2012) was an American professional basketball player.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities (AAU) is a binational organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education.

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Atlantic Coast Conference

The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference in the United States of America in which its fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division I, with its football teams competing in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest levels for athletic competition in US-based collegiate sports.

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Atlantic Coast Conference football champions

The Atlantic Coast Conference football champions includes 11 distinct teams that have won the college football championship awarded by the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) since its creation in 1953.

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Aubrey McClendon

Aubrey Kerr McClendon (July 14, 1959 – March 2, 2016) was an American businessman and the founder and chief executive officer of American Energy Partners, LP.

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Barkley L. Hendricks

Barkley L. Hendricks (April 16, 1945 – April 18, 2017) was a contemporary American painter who made pioneering contributions to black portraiture and conceptualism.

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Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship

The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by the United States Congress in 1986 in honor of former United States Senator and 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

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Beaufort, North Carolina

Beaufort is a town in and the county seat of Carteret County, North Carolina, United States.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), also known as the Gates Foundation, is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.

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Bob Thompson (painter)

Bob Thompson (June 26, 1937 – May 30, 1966) was an African-American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were appropriated from the Old Masters.

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Bobby Hurley

Robert Matthew Hurley (born June 28, 1971) is an American basketball coach and former college and professional player.

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Box (company)

Box (formerly Box.net), based in Redwood City, California, is a cloud content management and file sharing service for businesses.

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Brian Kobilka

Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family G protein-coupled receptors.

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Business Insider

Business Insider is an American financial and business news website that also operates international editions in the UK, Australia, China, Germany, France, South Africa, India, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nordics, Poland, Spanish and Singapore.

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Cameron Crazies

The Cameron Crazies are the student section supporting the Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team.

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Cameron Indoor Stadium

Cameron Indoor Stadium is an indoor arena located on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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Camp Kesem

Camp Kesem is an active community throughout the United States, driven by college students, supporting children through and after their parent's cancer.

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Carlos Boozer

Carlos Austin Boozer Jr. (born November 20, 1981) is an American retired professional basketball player.

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Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems (born April 20, 1953) is an American artist who works with text, fabric, audio, digital images, and installation video, but is best known for her work in the field of photography.

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CDIO Initiative

The CDIO Initiative is an educational framework that stresses engineering fundamentals set in the context of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating real-world systems and products.

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Center for Measuring University Performance

The Center for Measuring University Performance is a research center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Charles H. Townes

Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist and inventor of the maser and laser.

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Charlie Rose

Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television journalist and former talk show host.

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Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville and officially named the City of Charlottesville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Christian Laettner

Christian Donald Laettner (born August 17, 1969) is a retired American basketball player whose Hall of Fame career for the Duke Blue Devils is widely regarded as one of the best in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history.

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Christian Marclay

Christian Ernest Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer.

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Churchill Scholarship

The Churchill Scholarship is awarded by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States to graduates of the more than one hundred colleges and universities invited to participate in the Churchill Scholarship Program, for the pursuit of research and study in the physical and natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, for one year at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Clay Felker

Clay Schuette Felker (October 2, 1925 – July 1, 2008) was an American magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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College and university rankings

College and university rankings are rankings of institutions in higher education which have been ranked on the basis of various combinations of various factors.

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Collegiate Gothic

Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europe.

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Consortium on Financing Higher Education

The Consortium on Financing Higher Education, often known as COFHE, is an organization of thirty-five private colleges and universities.

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Corey Maggette

Corey Antoine Maggette (born November 12, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Dan Abrams

Dan Abrams (born c. 1965/1966) is an American web entrepreneur and television presenter who serves as the chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News and as the host of Live PD on the A&E cable network.

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Danny Ferry

Daniel John Willard "Danny" Ferry (born October 17, 1966) is an American retired professional basketball player and former general manager of the Atlanta Hawks.

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David Cutcliffe

David Nelson Cutcliffe (born September 16, 1954) is the head football coach of the Duke University Blue Devils.

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David Hammons

David Hammons (born 1943) is an American artist especially known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s.

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David Hudgins

David Hudgins (born 1965 in Durham, North Carolina) is an American television writer and showrunner.

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David R. Goode

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David S. Taylor

David Scott Taylor is an American business executive who is currently Procter & Gamble’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

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Demography of the United States

The United States is estimated to have a population of 327,996,618 as of June 25, 2018, making it the third most populous country in the world.

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Desegregation

Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.

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Douglas Knight

Douglas Maitland Knight (June 8, 1921 – January 23, 2005) was an American educator, businessman, and author.

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Duke blue

Duke blue is a dark blue tertiary color, associated with Duke University.

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Duke Blue Devils

The Duke Blue Devils are the athletic teams that represent Duke University.

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Duke Blue Devils men's basketball

The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represents Duke University in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

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Duke Blue Devils men's lacrosse

The Duke Blue Devils men's lacrosse team represents Duke University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's lacrosse.

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Duke Cancer Institute

The Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) is a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, research facility, and hospital.

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Duke Chapel

Duke University Chapel is a chapel located at the center of the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Duke Divinity School

The Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina is one of ten graduate or professional schools within Duke University.

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Duke Kunshan University

Duke Kunshan University is a Sino-American partnership of Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, United States) and Wuhan University (Wuhan, Hubei, China) to create a liberal arts and research university offering academic programs for students from China and throughout the world.

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Duke lacrosse case

The Duke lacrosse case was a widely reported 2006 criminal case in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape.

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Duke Lemur Center

The Duke Lemur Center houses nearly 240 rare and endangered prosimian primates and constitutes the world’s largest and most diverse population of lemurs outside their native Madagascar.

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Duke Union Community Television

Duke Union Community Television (Cable 13) is the Student television station at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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Duke University Health System

The Duke University Health System, combines the Duke University School of Medicine, the Duke University School of Nursing, the Duke Clinic, and the member hospitals into a system of research, clinical care, and education.

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Duke University Hospital

Duke University Medical Center (commonly referred to as Duke University Hospital) is a 938-acute care bed academic tertiary care facility located in Durham, North Carolina.

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Duke University School of Law

Duke University School of Law (also known as Duke Law School or Duke Law) is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Duke University School of Medicine

The Duke University School of Medicine along with the Duke University School of Nursing and Duke University Health System create Duke Health.

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Duke University School of Nursing

The Duke University School of Nursing is located in Durham, NC and is affiliated with Duke University and Duke University Health System.

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Duke–NUS Medical School

The Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) – formerly known as "Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School" – is a collaboration between Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and the National University of Singapore, in Singapore.

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Durham County, North Carolina

Durham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Dylan Smith (businessman)

Dylan C. Smith is the Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Box.

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Ed Newman

Edward Kenneth Newman (born June 4, 1951) is a former All-Pro offensive guard who, from 1973 to 1984, played 167 games over 12 seasons with the Miami Dolphins.

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Edmund M. Clarke

Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (born July 27, 1945) is an American retired computer scientist and academic noted for developing model checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs.

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Edmund T. Pratt Jr.

Edmund T. Pratt Jr. (1927 - September 5, 2002) was the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc..

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Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering

Duke's Pratt School of Engineering is one of two undergraduate schools at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Eduniversal

Eduniversal is a university ranking business by the French consulting company and rating agency SMBG specialized in Higher Education.

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Elizabeth A. Fenn

Elizabeth Anne Fenn (born September 22, 1959) is an American historian.

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Elizabeth Dole

Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole (born July 29, 1936)Mary Ella Cathey Hanford, "Asbury and Hanford Families: Newly Discovered Genealogical Information" The Historical Trail 33 (1996), pp.

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Elton Brand

Elton Tyron Brand (born March 11, 1979) is an American retired professional basketball player.

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Engineering

Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.

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Eric Shinseki

Eric Ken Shinseki (born November 28, 1942) is a retired United States Army general who served as the seventh United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009–2014).

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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FIBA Basketball World Cup

The FIBA Basketball World Cup, also known as the FIBA World Cup of Basketball or simply the FIBA World Cup, between 1950 and 2010 known as the FIBA World Championship, is an international basketball competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the sport's global governing body.

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Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a donation of money or property to a nonprofit organization for the ongoing support of that organization.

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FOCUS Program

The FOCUS Program is a voluntary, interdisciplinary academic curriculum for freshmen that was first established at Duke University.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years.

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Fraternities and sororities

Fraternities and sororities, or Greek letter organizations (GLOs) (collectively referred to as "Greek life") are social organizations at colleges and universities.

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Fred Brooks

Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

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Fred Wilson (artist)

Fred Wilson (born 1954) is an American artist.

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Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic and Marxist political theorist.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs whose goal is to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

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Fuqua School of Business

The Fuqua School of Business (pronounced) is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Galago

Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies, or nagapies (meaning "little night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small nocturnal primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagidae (also sometimes called Galagonidae).

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Gary L. Wilson

Gary L. Wilson is an American business executive.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Gerald Hassell

Gerald L. Hassell (born 1952) is an American bank executive and is the former Chairman and former CEO of The Bank of New York Mellon.

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Gold medal

A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field.

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Grading in education

Grading in education is the process of applying standardized measurements of varying levels of achievement in a course.

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Graduate School of Duke University

The Graduate School of Duke University is one of ten graduate and professional schools that make up the university.

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Grant Hill

Grant Graham Hill (born October 5, 1972) is an American former basketball player.

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Hank Willis Thomas

Hank Willis Thomas (born March 17, 1976 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture.

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Hans Georg Dehmelt

Hans Georg Dehmelt (9 September 1922 – 7 March 2017) was a German and American physicist, who was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey).

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Harry S. Truman Scholarship

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is a highly competitive federal scholarship granted to U.S. college juniors for demonstrated leadership potential and a commitment to public service.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hillsborough, North Carolina

The town of Hillsborough is the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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Horace Trumbauer

Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 – September 18, 1938) was a prominent American architect of the Gilded Age, known for designing residential manors for the wealthy.

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Howard Lerman

Howard Lerman (born February 27, 1980) is an entrepreneur.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint.

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Ian Barbour

Ian Graeme Barbour (October 5, 1923 – December 24, 2013), was an American scholar on the relationship between science and religion.

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Ingrid Daubechies

Ingrid Daubechies (born 17 August 1954) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician.

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Institute for Scientific Information

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960.

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International Association of Methodist-related Schools, Colleges, and Universities

International Association of Methodist-related Schools, Colleges, and Universities (IAMSCU) is a private, not-for-profit organization of colleges and universities associated with the United Methodist Church.

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International Mathematical Union

The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international non-governmental organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world.

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J. J. Redick

Jonathan Clay "J.

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James Buchanan Duke

James Buchanan Duke (December 23, 1856 – October 10, 1925) was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the introduction of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing, and his involvement with Duke University.

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Jared Harris

Jared Francis Harris (born 24 August 1961) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Lane Pryce in the television drama series Mad Men, David Robert Jones in the science fiction series Fringe, King George VI in the historical series The Crown, Anderson Dawes on the science fiction series The Expanse and captain Francis Crozier in the AMC series The Terror.

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Jay Bilas

Jay Scot Bilas (born December 24, 1963) is an American college basketball analyst for ESPN, a former NCAA Tournament Announcer with CBS Sports, and also a former college basketball player.

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Jay Williams (basketball)

Jason David Williams (born September 10, 1981) is an American former basketball player and current college basketball analyst.

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Jeffrey Vinik

Jeffrey N. Vinik (born March 22, 1959) is the current owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL) and a minority owner of the Boston Red Sox (MLB).

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Jeffrey Zients

Jeffrey D. "Jeff" Zients (born November 12, 1966) is an American chief executive officer, management consultant and entrepreneur.

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Jim Spanarkel

James Gerard Spanarkel (born June 28, 1957) is an American television analyst for the Brooklyn Nets on the YES Network and College Basketball on CBS and a former professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers and the Dallas Mavericks.

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John A. Allison IV

John A. Allison IV (born August 14, 1948) is an American businessman and the former CEO and president of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C..

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John Canning Jr.

John A. Canning Jr. is a private equity investor and sports executive.

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John Cocke

John Cocke (May 30, 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design.

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John Feinstein

John Feinstein (born July 28, 1956) is an American sportswriter, author and sports commentator.

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John Harwood (journalist)

John Harwood (born November 5, 1956) is an American journalist who is the chief Washington Correspondent for CNBC.

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John J. Mack

John J. Mack (born November 17, 1944) is a Senior Advisor and the former CEO & Chairman of the Board at Morgan Stanley, the New York-based investment bank and brokerage firm.

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John P. Angelos

John P. Angelos is the Executive Vice President of the Baltimore Orioles, a position he has held since April 1999, leading the club's front office and overseeing day-to-day business operations.

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John T. Chambers

John Thomas Chambers (born August 23, 1949) is the former executive chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems.

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John W. Campbell

John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor.

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Juanita M. Kreps

Clara Juanita Morris Kreps (January 11, 1921July 5, 2010) was an American government official and businesswoman.

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Judy Woodruff

Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist, who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976.

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Julian Abele

Julian Francis Abele (April 30, 1881April 23, 1950) was a prominent African-American architect, and chief designer in the offices of Horace Trumbauer.

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Julian Carr (industrialist)

Julian Shakespeare Carr (October 12, 1845 – April 29, 1924) was a North Carolina industrialist, philanthropist, and white supremacist.

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Kara Walker

Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.

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Karl von der Heyden

Karl von der Heyden is a German-American businessman best known for his former roles as the Co-Chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco, and CFO of PepsiCo.

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Ken Jeong

Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong (born July 13, 1969) is a Korean-American actor, stand-up comedian, and former physician.

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Kenan Institute for Ethics

The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University is an interdisciplinary "think and do" tank committed to understanding and addressing real-world ethical challenges facing individuals, organizations and societies worldwide.

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Kerry James Marshall

Kerry James Marshall (born October 17, 1955) is an American artist born in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Kevin Martin (FCC)

Kevin Jeffrey Martin (born December 14, 1966) is a former member and Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent agency of the United States government.

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Kiplinger

Kiplinger is a Washington, D.C.-based publisher of business forecasts and personal finance advice, available in print and online.

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Krzyzewskiville

Krzyzewskiville, or K-ville for short, is a phenomenon that occurs before major men's basketball games at Duke University.

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Kunshan

Kunshan is a county-level city in southeastern Jiangsu Province, bordering Shanghai to the east.

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Kyrie Irving

Kyrie Andrew Irving (born March 23, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Lakatos Award

The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Law School Admission Test

The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a half-day standardized test administered 4 times each year (6 starting in 2018-2019) at designated testing centers throughout the world.

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Lemur

Lemurs are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar.

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Lennie Friedman

Leonard Lebrecht Friedman (born October 13, 1976, in Livingston, New Jersey) is a former American football offensive lineman.

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List of colleges and universities in North Carolina

The following is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation

This list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows comprehensively the university affiliations of individual winners of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1901 (as of 2017, 892 individual laureates in total).

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List of Turing Award laureates by university affiliation

The following list comprehensively shows Turing Award laureates by university affiliations since 1966 (as of 2018, 67 winners in total), grouped by their current and past affiliation to academic institutions.

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Loris

Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine primates of the subfamily Lorinae (sometimes spelled Lorisinae) in the family Lorisidae.

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Luol Deng

Luol Ajou Deng (born 16 April 1985) is a Sudanese-born British professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977, London, UK) is a painter and writer of Ghanaian descent born in London, England, where she currently lives and works.

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Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas (born 1953) is a South African artist and painter.

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Marshall Scholarship

The Marshall Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship for "intellectually distinguished young Americans their country's future leaders" to study at any university in the United Kingdom.

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Martin Dempsey

Martin Edward Dempsey (born March 14, 1952), sometimes known as Marty Dempsey, is a retired United States Army general who served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2011 until September 25, 2015.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Medical College Admission Test

The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective medical students in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Caribbean Islands.

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Medical News Today

Medical News Today is a web-based outlet for medical news, targeted to both physicians and the general public.

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Melinda Gates

Melinda Ann Gates (née French; born August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Methodist Episcopal Church

The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939.

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Miami Hurricanes football

The Miami Hurricanes football team represents the University of Miami in the sport of American football.

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Michael Hardt

Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American literary theorist and political philosopher.

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Middle East Technical University

Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi ODTÜ) is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey.

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Mike Gminski

Michael Thomas Gminski (born August 3, 1959) is a retired American college and professional basketball player and a college basketball TV analyst for CBS Sports.

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Mike Krzyzewski

Michael William Krzyzewski (nicknamed "Coach K"; born February 13, 1947) is an American college basketball coach and former player.

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Mike Posner

Michael Robert Henrion Posner (born February 12, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and record producer.

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NACDA Directors' Cup

The NACDA Learfield Directors' Cup is an award given annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to the colleges and universities in the United States with the most success in collegiate athletics.

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Nasher Museum of Art

The Nasher Museum of Art is the art museum of Duke University, and is located on Duke's campus in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) is a professional organization for college and university athletic directors in the United States.

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National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities

Founded in 1976, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) is an organization of private US colleges and universities.

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National championship

A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Football Foundation

The National Football Foundation (NFF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1947 with early leadership from General Douglas MacArthur, longtime Army Black Knights football coach Earl Blaik and journalist Grantland Rice.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s.

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National LambdaRail

National LambdaRail (NLR) was a, high-speed national computer network owned and operated by the U.S. research and education community.

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National Merit Scholarship Program

The National Merit Scholarship Program is a United States academic scholarship competition for recognition and university scholarships administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), a privately funded, not-for-profit organization based in Evanston, Illinois.

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National Pan-Hellenic Council

The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American, international Greek lettered fraternities and sororities.

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National Panhellenic Conference

The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) is an umbrella organization for 26 (inter)national women's sororities.

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National University of Singapore

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is an autonomous research university in Singapore.

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NBA draft

The NBA draft is an annual event dating back to 1947 in which the (now thirty) teams from the National Basketball Association (NBA) can draft players who are eligible and wish to join the league.

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, also informally known and branded as NCAA March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship.

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NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

The NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, sometimes known as the College Cup, is an American intercollegiate soccer tournament conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and determines the Division I men's national champion.

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NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships

The NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship, played in the month of May, is the annual competition in women's collegiate golf for individuals and teams from universities in Division I. Golf was one of twelve women's sports added to the NCAA championship program for the 1981-82 school year.

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NCAA Women's Tennis Championship

The NCAA Women's Tennis Championship refers to one of three annual collegiate tennis competitions for women organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for athletes from institutions that make up its three divisions: Division I, II, and III.

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Need-blind admission

Need-blind admission is a term used in the United States denoting a college admission policy in which the admitting institution does not consider an applicant's financial situation when deciding admission.

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New York Post

The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States and a leading digital media publisher that reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Nicholas School of the Environment

The Nicholas School of the Environment is one of ten graduate and professional schools at Duke University and is headquartered on Duke’s main campus in Durham, N.C. A secondary coastal facility is maintained in Beaufort, North Carolina.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic whites or whites not of Hispanic or Latino origin (commonly referred to as Anglo-Americans)Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster See original definition (definition #1) of Anglo in English: It is defined as a synonym for Anglo-American--Page 86 are European Americans who are not of Hispanic or Latino origin/ethnicity, as defined by the United States Census Bureau.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Nonsectarian

Nonsectarian institutions are secular institutions or other organizations not affiliated with or restricted to a particular religious group.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a physical phenomenon in which nuclei in a magnetic field absorb and re-emit electromagnetic radiation.

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Oak Ridge Associated Universities

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a consortium of American universities headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with an office in Washington, D.C., and staff at several other locations across the country.

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Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson (Ólafur Elíasson; born 1967) is an Icelandic-Danish artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience.

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Oregon State Beavers football

The Oregon State Beavers football team represents Oregon State University in NCAA Division I FBS college football.

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Our Sunday Visitor

Our Sunday Visitor is a Roman Catholic publishing company in Huntington, Indiana, which prints the American national weekly newspaper of that name, as well as numerous Catholic periodicals, religious books, pamphlets, catechetical materials, inserts for parish bulletins and offertory envelopes, and offers an "Online Giving" system and "Faith in Action" websites for parishes.

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Outer Banks

The Outer Banks (OBX) is a string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.

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Paul Farmer

Paul Edward Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician who is best known for his humanitarian work providing suitable health care to rural and under-resourced areas in developing countries, beginning in Haiti.

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PayScale

PayScale is an American website which provides information about salary, benefits and compensation information.

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Peter Nicholas (businessman)

Peter M. Nicholas co-founded medical device firm Boston Scientific with partner John Abele.

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Philosophical Gourmet Report

The Philosophical Gourmet Report (also known as the Leiter Report or PGR), founded by philosophy and law professor Brian Leiter and now edited by philosophy professors Berit Brogaard and Christopher Pynes, is a ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world.

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Phytotron

A phytotron is an enclosed research greenhouse used for studying interactions between plants and the environment.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, that was established in its current form on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township.

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Private university

Private universities are typically not operated by governments, although many receive tax breaks, public student loans, and grants.

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Pro Football Hall of Fame

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football, located in Canton, Ohio.

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QS World University Rankings

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Rafael Viñoly

Rafael Viñoly Beceiro (born 1944) is an Uruguayan architect.

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Randall Wallace

Randall Wallace is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter who came to prominence by writing the screenplay for the historical drama film Braveheart (1995).

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Randolph County, North Carolina

Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Raymond Nasher

Raymond Nasher (October 26, 1921 – March 16, 2007) was a Boston Latin School (1939) and Duke University alumnus (1943) who was an avid art collector.

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Reactions to the Duke lacrosse case

The 2006 Duke University lacrosse case resulted in a great deal of coverage in the local and national media as well as a widespread community response at Duke and in the Durham, North Carolina area.

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Research university

A research university is a university that expects all its tenured and tenure-track faculty to continuously engage in research, as opposed to merely requiring it as a condition of an initial appointment or tenure.

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Retta

Marietta Sangai Sirleaf (born April 12, 1970), better known as Retta, is an American stand-up comedian and actress.

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Rex Adams

Rex Dee Adams (born 9 March 1940) is an American business executive, and Emeritus Professor and Dean at Duke University, and former Chairman and Non-Executive Director (USA) on the Invesco Board of Directors.

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Rey Chow

Rey Chow is a cultural critic, specializing in 20th-century Chinese fiction and film and postcolonial theory.

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Reynolds Price

Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.

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Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship, named after the Anglo-South African mining magnate and politician Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford.

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Ricardo Lagos

Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social democrat politician who served as President of Chile from 2000 to 2006.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Rick Wagoner

George Richard "Rick" Wagoner Jr. (born February 9, 1953) is an American businessman and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors.

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Robert Coleman Richardson

Robert Coleman Richardson (June 26, 1937 – February 19, 2013) was an American experimental physicist whose area of research included sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3.

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Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army.

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Robert K. Steel

Robert King "Bob" Steel (born August 3, 1951) is an American businessman, financier and government official who has served as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development in the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance of the United States Treasury, chief executive officer of Wachovia Corporation and vice chairman of Goldman Sachs.

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Robert Lefkowitz

Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician (internist and cardiologist) and biochemist.

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Robert Yeoman

Robert David Yeoman, ASC (born March 10, 1951) is an American cinematographer.

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Robertson Scholars Program

The Robertson Scholars Leadership Program is a joint merit scholarship and leadership development program at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Ron Paul

Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, physician and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013.

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Ronald McDonald House Charities

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is an American independent nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to create, find, and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children.

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Rose Bowl Game

The Rose Bowl Game, officially the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual for sponsorship purposes, and more frequently known as simply the Rose Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Year's Day) at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California.

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Sanford School of Public Policy

The Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University is named after former Duke president and Governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford, who established the university's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs in 1971 as an interdisciplinary program geared toward training future leaders.

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Sarah P. Duke Gardens

The Sarah P. Duke Gardens consist of approximately of landscaped and wooded areas at Duke University.

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SAT

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

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Sean McManus (television executive)

Sean J. McManus (born February 16, 1955) is the Chairman of CBS Sports and was the President of both CBS Sports and CBS News from 2005 to 2011.

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Shane Battier

Shane Courtney Battier (born September 9, 1978) is an American retired professional basketball player who played for various teams of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Silver medal

A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc.

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Sophie's Choice (novel)

Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas (born July 24, 1940) is an American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual.

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Stephen Pagliuca

Stephen Pagliuca (born January 16, 1955) is an American private equity investor, co-chairman of Bain Capital, and co-owner of the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Steve Spurrier

Stephen Orr Spurrier (born April 20, 1945) is a former American football player and coach.

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Steven Black (businessman)

Steven "Steve" D. Black is the former Vice-Chairman of JP Morgan Chase & Co..

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Strepsirrhini

Strepsirrhini or Strepsirhini is a suborder of primates that includes the lemuriform primates, which consist of the lemurs of Madagascar, galagos, ("bushbabies") and pottos from Africa, and the lorises from India and southeast Asia.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Talent Identification Program

https://tip.duke.edu/sites/default/themes/tip/logo.png Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) is a gifted education program based at Duke University.

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Terry Sanford

James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 – April 18, 1998) was an American university administrator and politician from North Carolina.

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The Chronicle (Duke University)

The Chronicle is a daily student newspaper at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and Student Affairs professionals (staff members and administrators).

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is a magazine that covers the nonprofit world.

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The Confessions of Nat Turner

The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by U.S. writer William Styron.

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The Duke Endowment

The Duke Endowment is a private foundation established in 1924 by industrialist and philanthropist James B. Duke.

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The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina)

The Herald-Sun is a daily newspaper in Durham, North Carolina, published by the McClatchy Company.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review is a college admission services company offering test preparation services, tutoring and admissions resources, online courses, and books published by Random House.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Theodore Ziolkowski

Theodore Ziolkowski (born 1932, Birmingham, Alabama), is a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature.

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Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian multinational mass media and information firm.

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Tim Cook

Timothy Donald Cook (born November 1, 1960) is an American business executive and industrial engineer.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Times Higher Education

Times Higher Education (THE), formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), is a weekly magazine based in London, reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education.

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Times Higher Education World University Rankings

Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by ''Times Higher Education (THE)'' magazine.

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Travel + Leisure

Travel + Leisure is a travel magazine based in New York City, New York.

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Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate liberal arts college at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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Trinity Historic District

Trinity Historic District, also called Trinity Park is a national historic district and residential neighborhood located near the East Campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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Trinity, North Carolina

Trinity is a city in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Turing Award

The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to an individual selected for contributions "of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field".

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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Unite the Right rally

The Unite the Right rally, also known as the Charlottesville rally or Charlottesville riots, was a white nationalist rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, from August 11 to 12, 2017.

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United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a mainline Protestant denomination and a major part of Methodism.

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United States men's national basketball team

The USA Basketball Men's National Team, commonly known as the United States Men's National Basketball Team, is the leading and most successful team in international competition, winning medals in seventeen Olympic tournaments, coming away with fifteen golds.

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United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known as West Point, Army, Army West Point, The Academy or simply The Point, is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in West Point, New York, in Orange County.

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Universities Research Association

The Universities Research Association, Inc. (URA) is a consortium of over 90 leading research-oriented universities primarily in the United States, with members also in Canada, Japan, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also known as UNC, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina, or simply Carolina, is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States.

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University of Texas at Dallas

The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in the University of Texas System.

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University Ranking by Academic Performance

The University Ranking by Academic Performance, abbreviated as URAP, was developed in the Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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USC Trojans football

The USC Trojans football program, established in 1888, represents the University of Southern California in college football.

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V-12 Navy College Training Program

The V-12 Navy College Training Program was designed to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the United States Navy during World War II.

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Vincent Price (educator)

Vincent Price is the 10th and current President of Duke University.

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W. K. Kellogg Foundation

The W. K. Kellogg Foundation was founded in June 1930 as the W. K. Kellogg Child Welfare Foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg.

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Wallace Wade

William Wallace Wade (June 15, 1892 – October 7, 1986) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball.

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Wallace Wade Stadium

Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium is a 40,004-seat stadium on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Washington Duke

George Washington Duke (December 18, 1820 – May 8, 1905) was an American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist who fought in the American Civil War.

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Wavelet

A wavelet is a wave-like oscillation with an amplitude that begins at zero, increases, and then decreases back to zero.

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Web of Science

Web of Science (previously known as Web of Knowledge) is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now maintained by Clarivate Analytics (previously the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters), that provides a comprehensive citation search.

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William A. Hawkins

William "Bill" A. Hawkins (born 1954) was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic from 2008 until 2011.

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William D. Murray

William D. Murray (September 9, 1908 – March 29, 1986) was an American football player and coach.

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William Preston Few

William Preston Few (December 29, 1867 – October 16, 1940) was the first president of Duke University and the fifth president of its predecessor, Trinity College.

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William Styron

William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work.

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Wuhan University

Wuhan University (WHU;; colloquially 武大, Pinyin: Wǔdà) is in Wuhan, Hubei, China.

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WXDU

WXDU (88.7 FM) is a non-commercial campus radio station broadcasting a college radio format.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yext

Yext is a New York City technology company that helps businesses manage the public facts about their brands that they want consumers to see online.

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1991 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The 1991 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball.

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1992 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The 1992 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball.

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2001 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2001 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball for the 2000–01 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

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2008 United States men's Olympic basketball team

The 2008 Olympics U.S. Men's Basketball Team represented the United States of America at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

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2010 FIBA World Championship

The 2010 FIBA World Championship, hosted by Turkey, was the international basketball competition contested by the men's national teams.

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2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2009–10 basketball season.

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2010 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

The 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 40th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse.

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2012 Belk Bowl

The 2012 Belk Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 27, 2012, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, formally the Games of the XXX Olympiad and commonly known as London 2012, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, United Kingdom.

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2012 United States men's Olympic basketball team

The men's national basketball team of the United States won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

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2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

The 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 43rd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse.

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2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup

The 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the tournament previously known as the FIBA World Championship.

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2014 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship

The 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship was the 44th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national championship for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college lacrosse.

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2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 68 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball.

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2016 Summer Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics (Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.

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568 Group

The 568 Group is a consortium of American universities and colleges practicing need-blind admissions.

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