The W.K. Kellogg Foundation awards $4.5 million to Duke and North Carolina Central University to improve the lives of at-risk, low-income Durham children.

Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, Duke's Athletics Department, and Duke Corporate Education Inc. sponsor the first annual Coach K/ Fuqua School of Business Conference on Leadership with keynote speaker Stephen Cooper, the interim CEO of Enron.

The Office of News and Communications launches eDuke, a free electronic mail service that supplies students, faculty, parents, alumni and others with links to online information about campus news and events. (In February ‘03 the office launches the university’s redesigned Web site.)

The Lafe P. and Rita D. Fox Student Center, a magnificent 48,000-square-foot, $28-million facility, opens in the Fuqua School of Business.

The Alumni Association’s first official reunion of the Woman's College, which merged with Trinity College in 1972, highlights the history of women at Duke.

Duke staff and students display great initiative and community spirit during the city’s worst ice storm in history, in which power outages drag on for days. With Duke’s help, Durham County opens a shelter on campus for local residents with special needs.

The campus sponsors numerous activities for its 14th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Week, including a speech by Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier at Duke Chapel.

17-year-old Jesica Santillan dies at Duke University Hospital following a blood type mismatch during a heart and lung transplant; the hospital subsequently implements additional safeguards for the organ transplantation process and begins a new campaign to improve patient safety at Duke and nationwide. Read an overview of the case and its relationship to the American organ donor system published by U.S. News & World Report.

President Keohane announces she will step down as Duke’s eighth president in June 2004. Chancellor for Health Affairs Ralph Snyderman follows with a similar announcement.

The Center for Human Genetics, which uses family histories, sophisticated molecular analyses and statistical genetics to reveal the genetic origin of diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis, celebrates the grand opening of its new building.

The Lyon Park Clinic, designed to provide affordable, accessible health care to residents of Southwest Central Durham, opens in the renovated Community Family Life and Recreation Center at Lyon Park, with the help of Lincoln Community Health Center and Duke’s Division of Community Health. Duke University’s Academic Council approves new parental leave and "tenure clock relief" policies that will give faculty more flexibility in balancing their work and family lives. This was the first result of the Women’s Initiative launched by President Keohane to examine women’s lives at Duke.

Committee selects "Savage Inequalities," a book by Jonathan Kozol documenting the shortcomings of the U.S. educational system, as the required reading for the incoming Class of 2007.