Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. It was founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838 and moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924 the tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke set up the Duke Endowment, and the institution took its present name to honor his late father, Washington Duke. The campus is spread over three contiguous sub-campuses in Durham plus a marine laboratory in Beaufort, and the university also administers two schools in Asia, Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and Duke Kunshan University in China. Together with North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill it forms one corner of the Research Triangle region.
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Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.
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Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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