Wrap Up the Holidays with Duke Gifts for Everyone on Your List
Working@Duke's 2025 holiday gift guide features choices for kids, pets, golfers and more
Get Outdoors
While we have plenty of cold weather ahead, there’s nothing wrong with sharing gifts that can be enjoyed when things warm up and we can get outdoors. How about this 24-can cooler for your next adventure? There’s also a handy foldable table that would be perfect for a picnic or camping trip. Find more outdoors-themed gift options here.
Hit the Links
Bring your Duke pride to the course with some of the many golf-themed gifts available from Duke University Stores. Among them are a golf umbrella and this rope hat that has timeless style.
Honor the Champs
Duke Women’s Basketball won the ACC Championship for the first time under Coach Kara Lawson last season. The Blue Devils have high hopes again this season, so show your support with items such as this T-shirt, Camelbak water bottle or – while it lasts – an ACC Championship hat.
Stay Warm
Duke University Stores has a large collection of items designed specifically to keep you warm this winter. There’s a wide selection of sweatshirts and outerwear as well as scarfs, like this traditional Duke blue one, warm blankets such as this one featuring Duke and Durham scenes, and even a cozy squishy pillow version of the Duke Blue Devil himself.
For the Little Devils
If you want someone to be a life-long Duke fan, they’ve got to start early. You can do just that with these fun Duke gifts for little ones, including a Duke basketball onesie, a youth-sized warm hoodie and a T-shirt featuring a little devil. Find all of these and more at Duke University Stores.
Duke Pride, Holiday Cheer
Duke University Stores offers a range of holiday-themed gifts and ornaments. This year, you can spread your Duke pride and holiday cheer with a tree-shaped ornament featuring the standing Blue Devil logo or a round ornament with whimsical depictions of Duke scenes by artist Julia Gash. And with Duke Lemur Center ornaments featuring several kinds of lemurs, you can also showcase some of Duke’s cutest residents on your tree.
Furry Fans
Don’t forget your four-legged loved ones. You can show them the love this holiday season with a chew toy that proclaims their love of Duke, a reversable pet bandana and decals that prove that your feline friends bleed Duke blue.
Stocking Stuffers
Duke University Stores has put together a collection of small, affordable gifts that should fit perfectly into the stockings of the Duke fans on your lift. Check out the collection for fun items such as magnets, koozies, keychains and much more.
Be Part of Duke Gardens
The spring of 2026 will mark a rebirth of sorts for the Sarah P. Duke Gardens as it opens its new Garden Gateway that will feature a new welcome center and enhanced event spaces. Help the nature lovers in your life take full advantage of the refreshed campus oasis with a gift membership to the gardens. Memberships include special pricing for education programs and free admission to many programs and events. Members receive a subscriptions to Better Homes and Gardens and reciprocal admission privileges and discounts to more than 320 gardens across North America. Secure your membership online or by emailing GardensMembership@duke.edu
Squeeze a Lemur
The Duke Lemur Center has launched a new line of branded plush lemurs designed with the help of center staff and based on photos of some of the center’s resident lemurs. By stopping by the Duke Lemur Center gift shop or shopping online through Duke University Stores, you can give the gift of a soft, snuggly sifaka, ruffed lemur, aye-aye, dwarf lemur, or ring-tailed lemur. In addition to the plush lemurs, you can also lend your support to one of the real critically endangered residents of the Duke Lemur Center through the Adopt a Lemur package, which includes a plush lemur, a photo of your lemur, email updates about your lemur and more.
A Cool Collaboration
As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, the Nasher Museum of Art commissioned a limited-edition candle from local artisans at Bright Black that features Barkley L. Hendricks’ painting Magnolia #1. The candle has scent of honeyed red clover, pine and moss, evoking the uplifting, grounded feeling of a North Carolina spring. The candle is available at Parker & Otis at the Nasher Museum. With several works in the Nasher Museum’s collection and an annual lecture named in his honor, Hendricks’ connection to the Nasher Museum runs deep. You can learn more about his work with a reissued catalogue from his 2008 exhibition, the Birth of Cool featuring photos and rich illustrations of his work as well as new essays from Duke experts on his legacy.
12 Months of Duke
The 2026 This is Duke wall calendar will showcases scenes from a year in the life of the university in full color all year long. Produced by Duke Marketing & Communications, the images are captured by staff photographers and highlight beautiful campus scenes and vivid moments from student life.
Support Duke’s Innovators
Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship has released its 2025 Holiday Gift Guide featuring dozens of products, books, services and online courses created by members of the Duke community. Whether you’re looking for sustainable goods, wellness solutions or learning tools, the online hub features links to products that will delight your loved ones and help members of Duke’s network fuel their dreams.
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