Site Highlights Duke in North Carolina

Click
on Duke University's new
interactive website about its presence in North Carolina and you can see that
195 undergraduates call Wake County home. Another 119 hail from Durham County
and more than 100 from the Charlotte area, with others coming from Dare County in
the east to Cherokee County in the west.

The
site also shows most Duke employees living in or near Durham, as would be
expected, but also 206 in Carteret County, where Duke's Marine Lab is located,
and 300 or more in both Mecklenburg and Guilford Counties. Similarly, Duke's
alumni live across the state, even in less-populated areas such as North
Carolina's mountainous fifth congressional district, which 1,884 Duke alums call
home. Duke's research activities also extend far beyond Durham, such as to the
North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis.

"Many
people are surprised to learn how much Duke touches people across North
Carolina," said Michael Schoenfeld, the university's vice president for
public affairs and government relations. "We've created this new site to
give people an opportunity to play with the data and see for themselves how
deep Duke's roots remain in North Carolina even as it has become a university
with a national, and increasingly international, reputation."

In
addition to providing data on Duke undergraduates, alumni, employees and
research in North Carolina, the site offers information on financial aid, including
breakdowns of how Duke's extensive aid programs intersect with state and
federal assistance. Users can also view or print PDF files summarizing the
impact of university and Duke health system activities in each of the state's congressional
districts.

Tam
Ferguson of the Office of News and Communications created the new
data-visualization tool along with Duke's federal relations office, which
has incorporated it into its website.