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69 student-athletes. 42 athletics staff members. 233.5 collective hours of service.

A few things these volunteers did during the Duke Athletics Week of Service:
🍽️ Delivered 42 routes for Meals on Wheels Durham, providing meals to seniors in Durham
🌱 Added compost to 13 beds at Duke Campus Farm
💌 Wrote more than 130 cards and visited with patients at Duke Cancer Center
🛠️ Built picnic tables at Root Causes

There’s a lot more behind these moments. Read how they spent the week giving back across Durham: https://today.duke.edu/2026/04/duke-athletics-enjoys-week-giving-back-community

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“I like living more than anything else.”

That mindset led Alfonzo Grafton to join a clinical trial at Duke after treatment for his stage IV lung cancer stopped working. The experimental therapy helped shrink his tumor and gave him something he feared he had lost: his life back.

His story is part of Faces of Research, highlighting North Carolinians living life fully thanks to health care backed by innovative research, supported by federal funding. https://researchsaveslives.duke.edu/stories/alfonzo-grafton/

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Duke Softball fans brought the energy in Durham all weekend long during Regionals. Next stop: the Super Regional in Fayetteville. 🥎

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