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A.B. Duke Scholarship Program
A.B. Duke Scholars are self-motivated students with outstanding academic and world-changing potential. Scholars are driven by sense of discovery and a commitment to engage and meet the challenges faced by society at large. The summer before their sophomore year, A.B. Duke Scholars are offered the opportunity to study at Oxford University at no cost. The oldest merit scholarship program at Duke University, the scholarship was established in 1925 by Benjamin N. and Sarah P. Duke to honor their son, Angier Buchanan Duke. A.B. Duke Scholars have won prestigious Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships and have gone on to win such notable awards as the Pulitzer Prize. Today, the program continues to attract the intellectually talented, creative, and curious students to Duke.
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Spotlight on Emily Wang
Emily Wang is a senior majoring in Chemistry with a Statistics minor. Emily studies protein structure-function relationships in the Beratan Lab, modeling biological electron transfer to understand how nature designs efficient bioenergetic proteins. Committed to mentorship, she’s the Internal President of Duke STEM Connect, teaching science lessons at underserved Durham schools, and a Duke Writing Studio Consultant. An avid painter and flutist, her landscape paintings have been exhibited at Duke and in galleries across the Triangle. She performs primarily contemporary music by women and BIPOC composers and is excited to present a solo art show and senior recital in 2026.
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Dr. Mark Goodacre, Faculty Director
Mark Goodacre is Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University. He specializes in the New Testament and Christian Origins. He earned his MA, M.Phil and DPhil at the University of Oxford. He has been at Duke since 2005. His research interests include the Gospels and the Historical Jesus. Goodacre is the author of four books including The Case Against Q: Studies in Markan Priority and the Synoptic Problem (Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2002) and Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas's Familiarity with the Synoptics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). He is well known for creating web resources on New Testament and Christian origins, including his podcast, the NT Pod. Goodacre has acted as consultant for several TV and radio programs including The Passion (BBC / HBO, 2008) and Finding Jesus (CNN, 2015-17). Goodacre is currently working on a book on John's knowledge of the Synoptic Gospels.