As a graduate student and later as a faculty member, Gary G. Bennett, Dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, cherished the opportunity to teach and learn in the Reuben-Cooke Building, which features classrooms and offices for sociology, psychology and neuroscience.
Bennett is also excited by the facility’s future as proposed improvements will preserve the historical significance of the 92-year-old building on West Campus.
As part of the university’s strategic vision to transform teaching and learning, the Reuben-Cooke Building is among nine academic and research buildings planned for renewal in Duke’s long-range capital improvement plan. Design for the Reuben-Cooke Building renewal will begin this fall with construction beginning in the summer of 2025.
The work will include replacing the roof and…