President Richard H. Brodhead became Duke's ninth president on July 1, 2004, after four decades at Yale, where he earned two degrees, taught literature, and served as dean. At Duke, he is a professor of English.

An expert in nineteenth-century American literature, Brodhead has written or edited more than a dozen books on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles W. Chestnutt, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Richard Wright, and Eudora Welty, among others. For his scholarly work, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Brodhead has lectured widely at U.S. universities and in Europe and Asia. He is a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and he has held a presidential appointment to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which is engaged with issues of international education and cross-cultural exchange.

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Stephen Nowicki is dean and vice provost for undergraduate education at Duke. He is a Bass Fellow and a professor in the departments of biology and psychology & neuroscience in Trinity College, and in the neurobiology department in the Duke School of Medicine.

Nowicki, who earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tufts University and his Ph.D. from Cornell University, joined the Duke faculty in 1989. He was dean of natural sciences for three years before being appointed dean and vice provost for undergraduate education in 2007.

He is the author of numerous technical articles on neurobiology and behavior, co-author of The Evolution of Animal Communication (2005, Princeton University Press); author of The Science of Life , a video lecture series (2004, The Teaching Company); and author of Biology , a high-school textbook (2008, Holt-McDougal).

In 1999, Nowicki was named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He received Duke's Robert B. Cox Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992 and was awarded the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professorship in 1999 in recognition of his distinction in both teaching and research.

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