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Duke Cycling Takes Second Straight National Title

May 17, 2013Make it two consecutive national team time trial titles for Duke Cycling. The team defended its national championship this month in Utah. Meanwhile, Duke Rugby, celebrating its 50th anniversary year, also made it to the national collegiate finals before losing to St. John's. [More]

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Commuting with a Bike-Electric Vehicle

Duke highlights bike commuting during 'Bike to Work Week'

Saying "humanity in the abstract will never inspire you in the same way as human beings you meet," Melinda Gates urged Duke University's graduates Sunday to use new technology to connect with others, including people in the developing world whose lives Americans can now touch in a more personal way."Over the course of your lives, I promise you, you will have many opportunities to use technology to make your world bigger, to meet more different kinds of people and to keep in touch with more of the people you meet," she said in the annual commencement ceremony in Wallace Wade Stadium. "I want you to connect because I believe it will inspire you to do something, to make a difference in the world."Gates, who received undergraduate and business degrees from Duke and later served as a university trustee, said, "it is so fantastic to be back here at my alma mater." She recalled attending Duke basketball games and spending long nights writing computer code as a student, long before she became co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest transparently operated private foundation."The way you communicate is the single biggest difference between you now and me a generation ago," she told the graduates. Smartphones and other technologies have proliferated, even in a Kenyan slum she visited recently, making it possible for Americans to get to know people in other countries more personally."Your world really can become a neighborhood," Gates said, arguing that "deep human connection ... is not a tool. It's not a means to an end. It is the end -- the purpose and the result of a meaningful life -- and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity and humanity."Delivered under a sunny sky, her address highlighted the ceremony at which Duke awarded more than 5,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees, including to those who graduated in September and December.Read more here: https://today.duke.edu/2013/05/commence2013. By: Duke, Duke University Categories: Campus Life, Student Life Tags: duke, barnhill, graduation, gates Original link:http://www.youtube.
Duke Graduation 2013: Celebration, Reflection and Staying Connected

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From Zimbabwe to Duke: Joshua Foromera Talks About His Duke Experience

The Karsh scholars are selected from around the world.  Graduating senior Joshua Foromera of Zimbabwe tells what he has learned from Duke.

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Watch Commencement 2013

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Technology & Computing

Artificial Intelligence: In and Out of Jeopardy

IBM's David Ferrucci took on the Jeopardy Challenge --- to create an intelligent computer system that could rival human Jeopardy champions

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Duke Oncologist Named as One of TIME's 100 Most Influential People

Duke's Dr. Kimberly Blackwell, one of the country's leading breast cancer researchers, is included in this year's roster of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people