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UNIVERSITY
PRIORITIES
- The Sarah P. Duke
Gardens
The mission of Duke Gardens is twofold: to reveal the gardens as a
work of art and to educate visitors who wish to learn some of the lessons
that only a garden can teach. Created and cared for by talented horticulturists,
garden designs by outstanding landscape architects are brought to reality
through an abundance of beautiful plantings throughout the Gardens.
From an educational perspective, the displays of plant life native
to the southeastern United States and its botanical counterpart in
distant Asia invite exploration. Every visit to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens,
however often, is always a new experience!
For more information
contact Kay Bunting, director of development for the Sarah
P. Duke Gardens, at (919) 402-0156; e-mail kay.bunting@duke.edu;
or visit the Gardens website: http://www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens/
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- Freeman Center for
Jewish Life
The Freeman Center for Jewish Life (FCJL) opened its doors in spring
of 1999. The new 17,000-square-foot facility is located at 1415 Faber
Street on central campus. The FCJL fosters and enriches Jewish life
through social, educational, religious, cultural, and outreach activities.
The FCJL maintains a pluralistic approach to Judaism and everyone is
welcome. Furthermore, its events are open to all members of the Duke
community, Jews and non-Jews, faculty, staff, and students. The Center
maintains an affiliation with Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus
Life.
For more information
contact Gretchen S. Cooley, administrative assistant for
the FCJL, at (919) 681-0409; e-mail gretchen.cooley@duke.edu;
or visit the FCJL website: http://kepler.egr.duke.edu/~freemanF99/
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- Duke Chapel
The Chapel and its services represent the unique identify of Duke University
and its traditions. From early morning until late at night, seven
days a week, every day of the year, the Chapel provides a place
of meeting, a place of quiet, a visible reminder of the relationship
between the religious life and the academic search for truth.
For more information
contact Lucy Worth, director of development and administration
for the Duke Chapel, at (919) 684-6220; e-mail lcworth@duke.edu;
or visit the Chapel website: http://www.chapel.duke.edu
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- Duke University Museum
of Art
The museum seeks to increase visitors’ intellectual stimulation,
aesthetic appreciation, and historical and cultural understanding of
art. The museum seeks to serve as a center of cultural life at Duke
and in the greater Durham community.
Internationally renowned
architect Rafael Viñoly has been selected to design
the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke. Construction of the $15
million museum, expected to begin next year, has been made
possible by a $7.5 million gift from Raymond D. Nasher,
a Dallas art collector, philanthropist, and real estate
developer who graduated from Duke in 1943 with a B.A. in
economics. Nasher also is a Duke trustee emeritus and his
daughter, Nancy, is a 1979 Duke School of Law graduate
and current member of the Duke Board of Trustees.
Viñoly's appointment
follows a selection process that lasted more than a year
and involved interviews with several other leading architects.
Viñoly, who was selected from a worldwide open competition,
may be best known for his recent completion of the Tokyo
International Forum, a $1.6 billion cultural center. Among
the other major projects for which Viñoly is noted
are the Regional Performing Arts Center in Philadelphia,
the Princeton University Stadium in New Jersey, and the
Samsung Cultural and Education Center in Seoul, Korea.
For more information
about the new art museum building now being planned, please
contact Ellen Medearis, director of major and leadership
gifts, at (919) 681-0434; or e-mail ellen.medearis@duke.edu.
Visit the museum website at http://www.duke.edu/web/duma for
information about museum exhibitions and events.
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Joaquin
Sorollo y Bastida
Portrait of Mary Lillian Duke
1911
Duke Museum
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