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The Master of Arts Program in Humanities is an interdepartmental program tailored to
the needs of individual students. The candidate defines a theme and selects appropriate
course work with the aid and approval of an academic advisor. Thirty units of course work
are required for completion of the program. The degree may be earned with or without a
thesis. The candidate who chooses not to submit a thesis will submit instead at least two
substantial papers arising from course work for review by committee members, and will
meet with them to discuss his or her program in a final master’s colloquium.
The program is open to holders of undergraduate degrees in any discipline who can
demonstrate sufficient background in humanities to permit study at the graduate level.
Admission is by regular application to the Graduate School. Students may enroll full time
or part time. The program also participates in the general set of joint JD/MA programs
offered at Duke. This allows law students to develop and broaden a complementary field of
interest—women’s studies, for example, or contemporary literature and hermeneutic theory
—to maintain an intellectual focus already developed in their undergraduate careers.
Hydrologic Science, Center for
Professors Katul and Medina Co-Directors, Professors Baker (earth and ocean sciences),
Haff (earth and ocean sciences), Katul (environment), Oren (environment), Schlesinger
(biology and environment), and Trangenstein (mathematics); Associate Professors Boadu
(civil engineering), Kabala (civil engineering), Peirce (civil engineering), Richter
(environment); Assistant Professor Vasudevan (environment).
The Center for Hydrologic Science is an active group of faculty engaged in a broad suite
of hydrology research. Faculty and their associated students and postdoctoral researchers are
from three schools at Duke: Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and the Environment. The
interdisciplinary nature of the center reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the field of
hydrology and most faculty hold joint professorships in at least two of the three schools. The
center is designed to provide a cohesive program for research and graduate level education
in hydrology. Research specialties of the faculty include contaminant hydrology, crustal
fluids, environmental geophysics, hydrogeology, mathematical models of multiphase
transport, waste treatment, and watershed hydrology. The broad range of faculty expertise
in hydrology allows graduate students to obtain well-balanced training in the classroom. The
Center for Hydrologic Science represents Duke University as a Member of the Consortium
of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI).
The center offers fellowships for graduate study in hydrology and organizes a lecture
series that attracts speakers of international stature. Monthly brown bag colloquia are
organized for student and faculty presentations from Duke, as well as from nearby
University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. For students engaged in
PhD research, the center offers a certificate in hydrology that is granted in addition to the
PhD in their host department. Further information on the Center for Hydrologic Science and
its certificate program may be obtained via mail (Center for Hydrologic Science, Box 90287,
Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0287), e-mail (Miguel.Medina@duke.edu).
Immunology (IMMUNOL)
Professor Tedder, Chair (353 Jones); Professor Krangel, Director of Graduate Studies (318
Jones); Professors Abraham, Buckley, Burks, Chao, Coffman, Cousins, Frank, Hall,
Haynes, Hoffman, Kelsoe, Kepler, Krangel, Lefkowitz, Lyerly, Pisetsky, St.Clair, Tedder,
Weinberg, Weinhold; Associate Professors Clay, Gunn, He, Levesque, Markert, Staats,
Szabolcs, Tomaras, Zhang, Zhuang; Assistant Professors Cowell, Kondo, Lin, Rathmell,
Taylor, Yang, Zhong; Associate Research Professor Sarzotti-Kelsoe; Assistant Research
Professors Haas, Poe, Ueda, Williams, Zhu; Adjunct Assistant Professor Demarest
Immunology is the study of the cells, proteins, and genes that protect against infection
and malignancy. Immunology encompasses innate and natural, nonspecific defense
mechanisms, as well as specific immune responses that generate immunologic memory. The
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