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Add to My SchoolsDuke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. Duke seek to attract, retain, and nurture a diverse community of faculty of true distinction, where distinction is understood to include both powerful intellectual creativity and the eagerness to stimulate the creativity of students and fellow scholars.Duke’s success in interdisciplinarity, globalization, and knowledge in the service of society has set the stage for sustained engagement with the many challenges facing local, national, and global communities.