Higher education has an intellectual elitism problem
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“Raise your hand if you know an intelligent person that will be voting for President Donald J. Trump.”
How do cells acquire their identities? In hopes of answering this question, a Duke team recently completed a study explaining the expression of stem cells after a decade of research.
The Office of University Scholars and Fellows moved up the notification date for merit scholarship finalists from early May to April 29, according to a Thursday email to current merit scholars.
CHAPEL HILL—No. 25 Duke, boasting an explosive but inconsistent offense, faced a near-impossible task at its rival Thursday afternoon: Win without Katie DeSimone.
Critics of affirmative action argue that universities reduce people down to their race. By eliminating the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship program, Duke has proved them right.
By most metrics, next season’s Blue Devil team looks to be dominant.
Riding high off the wave of capturing their 250th program win against Clemson, the third-ranked Blue Devils traveled a short way down the road to face off against UNC Greensboro Wednesday evening. They charged into the Spartans’ home turf and didn’t look back, winning by a convincing margin of 16-3 in just five innings.
One of my favorite things to handwrite is a question mark. I love the controlled squiggle of my pen coupled with the satisfaction of completing the curved symbol with a precise point, ink seeping deeply into the page. For me, the question mark is certainly the most gratifying form of punctuation.
Duke Student Government senators met Wednesday to confirm its elected officials for the 2024-25 academic year’s session, review the year’s achievements and vote on awards.
Junior Mahika Jammula promises to emphasize building community both within Duke University Union and with other groups on campus during her tenure as DUU president for the upcoming school year.
A recently released report revealed that Durham Public Schools is losing teachers at a higher rate than other districts across the state.
The University of North Carolina System Board of Governors’ University Governance committee voted Wednesday evening to eliminate a key diversity, equity and inclusion policy, setting up the likely elimination of many DEI-related administrative positions and offices at all of the state’s public universities.
Professor of Neurosurgery David Hasan spoke at a Tuesday event about his experience traveling twice to Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, to provide medical supplies and perform surgeries amidst the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
It was a whirlwind.
The Office of Climate and Sustainability hosted the final installment of its Investing for Mission-Driven Institutions seminar series Tuesday evening, which invited participating students and faculty to reflect on the previous eight sessions and share their takeaways.
Junior Yadira Paz-Martinez was named a Truman Scholar on Friday.
As the NBA playoffs begin, several former Blue Devils will seek to lead their squads to a championship. The Blue Zone takes a look at the regular-season performances of some past Duke basketball stars:
A study from this February by the University of Michigan estimated that 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real. The researchers analyzed over 7.4 million tweets from roughly 1.3 million people, who geocoded the posts and classified the posts as “for” or “against” climate change using an AI large language model. Climate change denialism was most highly clustered in the central and Southern U.S. and was further correlated with political affiliation.
We have a new curriculum!
Senior Drew Greene and Rickard Stureborg, a final-year doctoral candidate studying computer science, were chosen by the Young Trustee Nominating Committee and President Vincent Price as Duke’s next Undergraduate and Graduate/Professional Young Trustees, respectively, wrote Margaret Epps, secretary to the Board of Trustees and Price's chief of staff, in a Tuesday email to The Chronicle.