Duke University's Campus

Duke University has 34.8 square kilometers of land, including 29 square kilometers of Duke Forest***, and 220 buildings built on it, with the tallest building at the center of campus being Duke Cathedral. On the Atlantic coast in Beaufort, Duke has a 15-acre marine laboratory. There is a free bus line on campus that runs continuously every day, connecting all campuses. Located in Durham, North Carolina, in the southeastern United States, Durham, along with Chapel Hill and Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina,*** constitute the human and geographically famous North Carolina Research Triangle (Research Triangle), which is the third-largest concentration of biomedical technology and related industries in the United States.

North Carolina's four seasons are not distinct, with 220 sun-filled days a year, fall starting in September and running through November, and winters that are not very cold, with snow falling only once a year on average.

Nasher Museum of Art

Dedicated on October 2, 2005, the $23 million, 6,120-square-foot museum is a stylistic legacy of the Gothic and Georgian architecture of the Duke campus. The Museum of Art is intended to be a distinctive landmark on the Duke campus, a magnet for students, faculty, alumni and visitors, and a center of cultural life for Duke and the Raleigh/Durham community. It houses 13,000 works of art, including works by Andy Warhol, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Pablo Ruiz Picasso. On top of that, it has rooms that can be used as classrooms and exhibition halls.

The Nasher Museum of Art consists of five Platonic monolithic buildings with different functions, one for the permanent collection, two for temporary displays, one for an auditorium, and one for classrooms, a café, an administrative office, and other ancillary facilities. The five separate pavilions are built around a gently sloping high point on the site in a soothing radial pattern, with an irregular pentagonal courtyard enclosed in the center, which is covered by a lightweight canopy of glass and steel framing, forming the entire museum lobby and designed as a pavilion for sculptural works of art. The open space between the courtyards provides a good view of the hall. In order to blur the boundaries between the interior and exterior spaces, the floor plan of the lobby extends to the periphery of the lobby, outlining the entrance porch and a separate terrace café. 5 venues are assembled into a single building in the form of limited-size window and door curtain walls. The building's primary building material, Duke Stone, gives the building a fine texture and warm earthy tones, a warm local stone used extensively in other older buildings on the Duke campus, creating a sense of harmony that is echoed by Duke University.

West Campus

Students often refer to the West Campus as a "Gothic paradise". This nickname comes from the Gothic Revival (18th-century England) architecture on the west side of campus. Most of these buildings were designed by Julian Abele, one of the first black architects in the United States. The main square court is of a very plain and early architectural style, in contrast to the College square court, which shows the influence of later French and Italian architectural styles.

The stone used in the construction of the West Campus took on seven basic colors and seventeen different colors. The school's superintendent of planning and architecture once described the stones as "old and attractive in their antiquity" and as "warmer and softer in color than those used at Princeton," and they seem to have a special beauty because they are stacked in such a way that the spaces between their crevices can be made to appear to be the same as those at Princeton. in such a way as to allow shadow lines between their seams. Mr. James Duke, the founder of Duke University, originally proposed to quarry the stones thousands of miles from Princeton, New Jersey, but later, to save money, quarried the required stones in Hillsburgh, North Carolina. The centerpiece of the West Campus is Duke Cathedral, which also serves as the religious center of Trinity College at Duke, and which was built over a five-year period from 1930 to 1935. The cathedral can seat 1,600 people, and at 64 meters, it is one of the tallest buildings in Durham.

The West Campus can be called the center of Duke University. In addition to all second-year students residing on West Campus, a number of third- and fourth-year students are also housed there. Most of the university's academic and administrative organizations are located here. The main portion of West Campus is centered on Duke Chapel, with the residential quadrangle to the south and the academic quadrangle, Perkins Library, and the Medicine Center to the north. The generalized West Campus also includes Science Drive, where the Science and Engineering Building is located, the Fuqua School of Business, the School of Law, and the School of Public **** Relations. Finally, most of the dining halls and athletic facilities are in the Cameron Indoor Stadium, which are also located on West Campus.

East Campus

East Campus was actually Duke's main campus in its early years, and used to house the Women's College between 1930 and 1972. It became an area for first-year students, and in addition to that, a number of departments were located here, including Art History, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy and Women's Studies. There are also a number of other continuing education programs located here, including dance, drama, education, film, and the school's program to help with writing. Additionally, some of the East Campus residents are first-year freshmen, and in addition to the upperclassmen who serve as administrators, only first-year freshmen are allowed to live here. In this way, a cohesive peer group is formed year after year. East Campus is a self-contained campus with first-year residence halls, a dining center, Lilly Library, Baldwin Auditorium, a theater, Brody Athletic and Tennis Courts, and several academic buildings. The Pavilion East Campus is 2.4 miles from the West Campus, and the two campuses are located on opposite sides of a highway in Durham City, but getting to and from the two campuses is not difficult, and campus buses are easy and quick to use.

Central Campus

The Central Campus is a 200-acre site between the East and West campuses. Some third and fourth years as well as graduate students (such as those in the law and medical schools) live on Central Campus. The aforementioned Nasher Museum is also on Central Campus, as well as the Jewish Life Center, the Police Department, the Children's Center, the McDonald's Children's Center, and a number of administrative agencies such as Resident Life Services. The Central Campus has many recreational and social areas, such as basketball courts, tennis courts, beach volleyball courts, swimming pools, outdoor barbecue and picnic areas, and more.

Starting in 2008, Duke University plans to redevelop Central Campus over the next 20 to 50 years. The goal of this plan is to make Central Campus an ideal academic village to serve all members of the Duke community. Phase I of the plan, which includes the construction of dining, academic, recreational, and service facilities, is a projected investment of $240 million. The key to the revamped plan is to better integrate the Central Campus into the overall campus, instead of relying on circuitous and inefficient bus routes to connect it to the other two campuses.

Duke Forest

Established in 1931, Duke Forest is a 29-square-mile, six-acre site located just west of Duke's West Campus. It is one of the largest continuously maintained forests in the nation, and all of its management records have been well preserved. To this day, Duke Forest interprets many different forest forms and silvicultural significance. The forest is also used for a wide variety of research, and now houses a pelagic research facility, a forest carbon transfer storage facility, two towers for micrometeorological research, and other areas for the study of animal behavior and ecology. Miles of walking trails

stretch through the forest, perfect for relaxation and recreation, and the nationally ranked Duke men's and women's cross-country running teams often train here.

The Lemur Center at Duke Forest is the world's largest habitat for rare primates of the suborder Procyonotus, and was established in 1966. The 344,000-square-foot facility is home to nearly 300 animals of 25 species of lemurs, colobus monkeys and sloths. Duke Forest is also a major producer of Christmas trees in the United States.

Duke Gardens

Built in the early 1930s, the 223,000-square-meter Sarah P Duke Garden is one of the main attractions on the Duke campus. It is divided into three main sections: the main terraces and their surroundings, the H.L. Blomquist Native Plant Garden, and the Culberson Asian Botanical Garden. There are eight kilometers of wooded trails through the Doris Duke Center and surrounding gardens.

Duke University has several dormitory buildings that can accommodate 5,265 students. It is worth mentioning that the dormitories are heavily guarded, with 24-hour security devices, magnetic door locks, and magnetic cards required to enter and exit the dormitories. Due to the well-equipped and tight security of the university dormitories, 90 percent of students choose to live on campus.

The university's students are very good at sports and have impressive records, including the men's basketball, football and soccer teams, which have all won a number of championships in the national tournament, and the women's sports achievements are no less impressive than the men's, in particular, the women's tennis, volleyball and golf teams, which are ranked among the top ten teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association.