Spotlight on Duke Reunion Weekend 2026

Three women holding up a Duke signs in a Photo Booth

This is a summary of a story on the Made for This website. 

With sunny weather throughout the weekend, more than 5,000 undergraduate alumni and friends arrived on campus April 10-12 for Duke Reunion Weekend. 

There were plenty of activities on hand: Attendees joined class parties, went on behind-the-scenes tours of campus, learned about the university’s cutting-edge research through back-to-class sessions. They also celebrated a collective commitment of more than $20 million through a special class campaign to mark milestone reunions. The contributions will benefit 15 annual funds that provide flexible support to schools and units and expand the Duke student experience.

The class of 2001, celebrating their twenty-fifth reunion, won The Benchmark Challenge, a friendly competition between reunion classes to drive both the highest number of classmates who make a monetary contribution and the highest number of class attendees. As the winner, 2001 classmates won a private catered party and a custom painted class bench.

Brent Powers, who graduated in 2006, flew in from London. “What’s amazing being back on campus is that you can turn a corner and serendipitously bump into someone you used to know,” he said.

Experience the weekend in photos and video on the Made for This website.