Alum Omari Swinton elected president of National Economics Association
By Kari Larsen | April 17, 2019Omari Swinton—Duke economics alumnus and associate professor of economics at Howard University—wants to break down barriers.
Omari Swinton—Duke economics alumnus and associate professor of economics at Howard University—wants to break down barriers.
For the Class of 2023, Duke had the largest increase in applications–around 4,300–out of all Ivy League schools, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University.
Sophomore Ethan Cheung and junior Jason Lee picked up yoyoing as a hobby when they were kids. Now, the two combined their passion for one great performance.
Other than a protester being removed, Linda Sarsour's on-campus talk on Islam and Intersectionality took place without issue with a heavy security presence.
CHAPEL HILL—Donning a Carolina hat and starting a “Tar Heels” chant, Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke called for unity on climate change and a number of other issues in a town-hall style speech Monday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Chronicle's Lena Yannella recently sat down with Providence, R.I., city councilwoman Carmen Castillo when Castillo was on campus for a talk.
Make room, lemurs—there’s a new Coquerel’s sifaka in Durham, and her name is Marie.
The apartments will house 20 to 25 graduate and professional students.
“I hope that nobody has to do that, but that, if it comes down to it, people feel like they can," Dagher said. "Maybe I’ve made that a little more plausible.”
Kong Lee, the 61-year-old owner of the popular coffee shop, Kaffeinate, died in the explosion that destroyed his shop last Wednesday.
Want to tour the tunnels before graduation? Seniors who donated to the Annual Fund will have the opportunity to do just that this week.
Friday afternoon, the University named Mary Pat McMahon as the new vice provost/vice president for campus life.
Durham County's district attorney said Thursday that she will not pursue the death penalty for a man charged with killing three Muslim Chapel Hill students in 2015.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy received the inaugural Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law at a ceremony at the Washington Duke Thursday.
Ten Duke employees were injured in the explosion in downtown Durham Wednesday, a Duke official confirmed Thursday afternoon.
Junior Daisy Almonte was named a 2019 Truman Scholar Thursday.
You never really expect to open your inbox and see an email that changes the lives of you and all your peers, said Claire Ravenscroft, Ph.D. candidate in english. But Thursday morning, she did.
The toll from Durham’s explosion Wednesday continues to increase.
Duke is partnering with 42 other universities and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to prevent sexual harassment within higher education settings.
Sophomore Lourdes Reyes’ grandparents migrated to the United States from Mexico in the 1940s. They opened a Mexican restaurant in San Antonio, Texas, where Reyes grew up.