Duke University

Duke University in Durham North Carolina — which housed J.B. Rhine's Parapsychology Laboratory from 1935 to 1965, making it the most important institutional home of parapsychological research in the 20th century — until the lab became independent as the Rhine Research Center.

Provided the institutional legitimacy that allowed Rhine's parapsychology research to be taken seriously — the Duke affiliation meant the research was conducted in an academic environment with peer review and statistical standards that forced the mainstream to engage with the findings.