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Wearing professional anti-scratch gloves, over 50 of the new Duke Kunshan University 2015 Global Learning Semester undergraduate students began their park clean up on Saturday morning, March 7th. Even though the students have been to Kunshan for less than 2 weeks, they felt themselves obliged to give back to the neighboring community.
February 28, Kunshan – Duke Kunshan University welcomed the second class of the undergraduate Global Learning Semester (GLS) program at the program’s convocation on Saturday. A total of 66 undergraduate students from Chinese and international universities joined DKU leaders and faculty members at the ceremony to mark the official start of their semester-long study at DKU. As part of DKU’s academic tradition, all students signed the university’s Community Standard, pledging to uphold...
Sitting in his office on Duke’s West Campus, Professor William Johnson reminds a visitor that “a university is not about the big tall oak trees and the beautiful gothic wonderland; it’s about a group of people who are really involved in learning.”
February 11, Kunshan - Mr. Chen Deming, president of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) and a standing committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), made a visit to Duke Kunshan University Wednesday. Accompanied by Kunshan officials, he led an ARATS delegation to learn about this new joint-venture university’s latest developments and encouraged DKU to drive innovation in collaborating with regional educational and industrial...
DURHAM, N.C., and KUNSHAN, CHINA -- Mary Brown Bullock, the founding executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University (DKU), will retire from her post in summer 2015.
She has served as the joint venture university’s chief academic and administrative officer since 2012, overseeing two years of preparation, faculty and staff recruitment, and the opening of the campus and first year of academic operations at the university in Kunshan, China.
