Our campus geography gives Duke a comparative advantage for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Duke’s West Campus is compact. The medical and nursing schools, Duke Engineering, Nicholas School of the Environment, Divinity School, natural sciences departments, many social sciences and humanities departments, and the library are all a short distance apart. East Campus is also just a short bus ride away.
Faculty and students inhabit a growing set of buildings populated to foster interactions across disciplinary lines. Here are just a few examples:
- French Family Science Center
- Gross Hall for Interdisciplinary Innovation, which houses the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, the Social Science Research Institute, Science & Society, and the Rhodes Information Initiative
- Medical Sciences Research Building I, II and III
- Wilkinson Engineering Building
- Kenan Institute for Ethics, West Duke Building
- Franklin Humanities Institute, Smith Warehouse
- Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Levine Science Research Center
- Center for Documentary Studies, Lyndhurst and Bridges Buildings
- Duke Global Health Institute, Trent Hall
- Duke Marine Lab
- The Foundry
- Makerspace, Rubenstein Arts Center
These buildings and many others provide collaborative spaces for meetings and other interactions, interdisciplinary courses, and specialized infrastructure, such as neuroimaging facilities, photography darkrooms, 3-D printers and student maker spaces.