When imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in early October, Chinese state media immediately blacked out the news.
The Academic Council established a new committee Thursday that will assess Duke’s global initiatives to increase faculty involvement in international planning.
After a recent poll revealed that University faculty overwhelmingly opposes recent cuts in research budgets, the Arts and Sciences Council voted Thursday to formally appeal for increased funding.
A team of researchers headed by a Duke professor has estimated that obesity costs American employers over $73.1 billion annually through lost productivity and health care costs.
Midway through the semester, biology professors in two new introductory courses have received lackluster feedback from the first students enrolled.
Students looking forward to Markets and Management Studies’ entrepreneurship program will have to wait.
Thirteen Duke students and recent graduates won the U.S. Fulbright scholarship this year, making the University one of the top producers of program recipients.
What many students consider to be the most frightening aspect of college courses—cumulative final exams—may be vanishing at many of the nation’s universities.
University officials provided a detailed presentation to faculty members Thursday regarding the underlying processes and structure of Duke’s budget.
With increased government efforts to monitor federal research projects, the University has been enforcing federal standards more strictly, Arts and Sciences Council members heard Thursday.
The Chronicle’s Yeshwanth Kandimalla sat down with Tyson to discuss the implications of the Wake County schools busing policy that promoted diversity in the school system and his activism efforts.
In an effort to cut costs, students in general chemistry and organic chemistry classes this semester are conducting half of their laboratory sessions outside of class on their computers.
In the age of new media, the University will welcome a new face to its faculty this Spring.
Students paying hundreds of dollars for academic papers online may be surprised by how little they get for their money.
Top administrators expressed confidence Thursday that the University will be able to eliminate its remaining $40 million budget deficit in the next two years.
The Arts and Sciences Council discussed the financial outlook for the year at its first meeting of the semester.
During the Spring semester, Cathy Davidson decided to implement grading practices fit for a new era: she left the evaluations of students to their peers.
Robert Calderbank, director of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University, will be Duke's new dean of natural sciences, officials announced June 1.
In a meeting May 13, the Academic Council approved the updated Acceptable Use Policy and heard a presentation on major financial challenges facing the University. The revised AUP sets new...
This summer, students can pursue a Duke education without being on campus. Two courses will be offered online for the first time by Duke’s Program in Education and the English department during the...
