Affiliated Programs

Baldwin Scholars

Inspiring and supporting undergraduate women to become engaged, confident and connected leaders in the Duke community and beyond

The four-year experience includes a retreat, two academic seminars, an opportunity to live together as a group on West Campus, an internship, and numerous informal activities such as lectures and dinners. Baldwin Scholars will develop leadership, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The program is open to students in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering.

Bassett Scholars

Encourges students to develop radical empathy, find unity in diversity, and identify shared values and interests.

Named after the ardent crusader for free speech and academic freedom in the early 20th Century, John Spencer Bassett Scholars are committed to exploring, engaging, and articulating specific views and epistemologies—enhancing cultural, religious, intellectual, and political diversity.

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

A long-term effort to help remedy the problem of underrepresentation in the faculty ranks of higher education

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program aims to create a legacy of engaged fellows who will provide opportunities for all students to experience and learn from the perspectives of diverse faculty members. Established in 1988, MMUF works to achieve its mission by identifying and supporting students of great promise and helping them to become scholars of the highest distinction. The name of the program honors Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, the noted African American educator, statesman, minister, and former president of Morehouse College.

Phi Beta Kappa

The nation's oldest academic honor society

The abridged history of our chapter, presented below, is taken from Carl L. Anderson's history of Phi Beta Kappa at Duke. This work was written in 1977 and revised in 1978, 1980, and 1988. "The Duke chapter, Beta of North Carolina, was formed in 1920 at Trinity College, Durham, on the application of eight faculty members who has been inducted into membership while they were students at other institutions. The statement prepared in support of Trinity's application was pleased to point out that the college had no fewer than eleven buildings, including a library of 54,000 volumes staffed by six librarians.

"To meet the requirement that alumni of the College included persons who had attained great distinction, the charter application named United States Senators and Congressmen, college presidents, and others, including John Spencer Bassett, Professor of History in Trinity College. Basset had been the center of a celebrated controversy at Trinity in 1903 that led to one of the earliest affirmations of academic freedom by the trustees of an American institution of learning..."

Rachel Carson Scholars Program

Provides Duke University undergraduate students with direct research experience in marine science and conservation

The Rachel Carson Scholars Program provides Duke University undergraduate students with direct research experience in marine science and conservation. Named in honor of Rachel Carson—a marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement—scholars will acquire the necessary skills to be the next generation of marine conservation leaders.

Scholars are trained through small seminar experiences, experiential learning, enhanced faculty-student mentorship, scientific research, and professional development. All scholars spend at least one semester at the Duke University Marine Laboratory (DUML) and have funding available for research, travel to professional conferences, and DUML travel courses. In addition to the training that they receive, a community of scholars will be developed both within each cohort of scholars and among alumni of the program.