Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Duke Alumni in Technology of 2021. Known for being one of the finest institutions in the South, this university has seen countless students pass through its doors and head off to greatness. Consistently excelling in athletics and academics, Duke students know the value of ‘Work hard, play hard…
Alumni Spotlight is pleased to announce The Top 100 Duke Alumni in Technology of 2021. Known for being one of the finest institutions in the South, this university has seen countless students pass through its doors and head off to greatness. Consistently excelling in athletics and academics, Duke students know the value of ‘Work hard, play hard…
Justice Clarence Thomas is the second African American appointed to the Supreme Court. In 1991, he was nominated by President George H. W. Bush, and he’s now the senior associate justice and longest-serving member of the Court…
Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was arguably the greatest American playwright of the 20th century. His highly regarded work often combined contemporary social issues with a probing curiosity as to his characters’ inner lives…
In February 2018, Cynthia Marshall became the first Black female CEO in the history of the National Basketball Association. As someone with a reputation for breaking boundaries, Marshall made a career out of exceeding the expectations of people around her…
American writer Robert Frost (1874 –1963) is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. Known for his great command of American colloquial speech, Frost often used realistic verses and everyday situations to analyze complicated social and philosophical themes…
Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani may soon find himself in the rarefied air of the $100 billion club. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as of September 2021, Ambani’s net worth has increased to $92.6 billion…
The winner of a MacArthur “genius grant,” David Lobell is an agricultural ecologist and academic. His research focuses on identifying opportunities to raise crop yields in major agricultural regions, with a particular emphasis on adaptation to climate change. His current projects span Africa, South Asia, Mexico, and the United States…
Baruj Benacerraf (1920-2011) was a Venezuelan-American immunologist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Benacerraf’s most significant contribution to his field is the identification of gene groups called ‘major histocompatibility complexes’ that determine a person’s susceptibility to certain diseases…
T. S. Eliot is one of the greatest-known poets and playwrights in our country’s history. Born into a prominent Boston Brahmin family, Eliot was infatuated with literature from his early childhood, writing his first serious poems at the age of 14…
