• Durham ranked #23 nationally for the Best Places for Business and Careers according to Forbes.
• Duke University's medical school remained tied for sixth place for research, its law school tied for 11th and its business school was ranked 14th and the Pratt School of Engineering rose two places to tie for 33rd in U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings.
  • Duke was also recognized among the top ten in geriatrics (tied for fourth), internal medicine (fifth), AIDS (fifth), women's health (sixth), family medicine (eighth) and pediatrics (tied for ninth). It tied for 42nd in primary care.
  • Duke's law school was tied for ninth in intellectual property law and 10th for international law. Its business school was ranked third in marketing, fourth for executive MBA program, tied for sixth in international, seventh in nonprofit and eighth in management. Within engineering, Duke ranked fourth for biomedical and bioengineering.
  • The environmental sciences program ranked fifth, the immunology/infectious disease program was tied for seventh, nuclear physics tied for eighth and statistics tied for tenth. Finally, Duke ranked 13th in the biological sciences, tied for 24th place in mathematics, 27th in computer science, tied for 30th in physics and 45th in chemistry.
• The Sirens, a women's ensemble of 39 singers at Riverside High School in Durham was recognized for its talents by winning the Triangle Youth Chorus Trophy which is awarded to an ensemble of 20 or more singers in a public school in Durham, Wake, Orange, or Chatham County.
• Duke stands tall in 11th place nationally in the latest Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings. The Directors' Cup rankings measure an athletic program's comprehensive sports success by totaling points based on a team's finish in national competition.
• The Durham County Human Resources Department was presented with an Outstanding County Program Award from the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) for their Dependent Eligibility Audit contest entry.

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