A look at major news stories at Duke University throughout the 2001-2002 academic year.

•  Keck Foundation gift launches center for neuro-oncology genomics •  Duke ranks sixth in U.S.News & World Report’s 2001 America's Best Hospitals Honor Roll

	•  A record 448 Duke students participate in fall semester Study Abroad programs in 28 countries
		•  Robertson Scholars bus links Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Duke community responds to terror of Sept. 11—and the news that six alumni died in the attacks

	Doris Duke Center completed at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens

Trinity Heights Homesites for Duke faculty and staff holds open house

Ground-breaking for Nasher Art Museum

	Myrlie Evers Williams, former NAACP chairwoman and widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, and Samuel DuBois Cook, trustee emeritus, speak at Martin Luther King Jr. Day events Sam Cook with President Keohane

•  Five former U.S. Secretaries of Education attend Education Leadership Summit at Duke •   Peter and Ginny Nicholas pledge $25 million to support faculty through the The Nicholas Faculty Leadership Initiative.

•  Women’s basketball team makes NCAA Final Four for second time in four years •  John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History marks its 10th anniversary •  University Photography’s Face Value portraits celebrate Duke staff, faculty and students who help define a diverse community

	•  Ground-breaking for Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (CIEMAS)
	•  Good Morning America co-anchor Diane Sawyer spends a night in the RoundTable residence hall with Duke students

	•  Journalist and novelist Tom Wolfe speaks at Commencement •  Duke women’s golf team wins second national championship in four years