Peter Lange is an American academic and the former Provost of

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

, serving three terms from 1999 to 2014. As Provost, Lange oversaw the creation of

Duke Kunshan University Duke Kunshan University (DKU; ) is a university in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. It was established in 2013 by a joint venture between Duke University and Wuhan University. The university is an independent legal entity. Upon graduation, undergraduate ...

in China, and two five-year strategic plans. His tenure included building interdisciplinary institutes and new library and arts facilities. Lange was the university's longest-serving provost, and also served as a professor of political science. Lange resigned in 2014, and was succeeded by

Sally Kornbluth Sally Ann Kornbluth (born 1960) is an American cell biologist and academic administrator. She began serving as the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 2023. Early life and education Kornbluth was born in Pat ...

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