Heavenly Buffaloes goes by many different nicknames on campus, but owners Mark Dundas and Dain Phelan prefer to call it the best spot in town.
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.
Duke Law School’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic has successfully pursued the exoneration of six men and may soon add a seventh.
Senior Jeffrey Wubbenhorst feels that the camera device has positively affected his time in college.
At a school where students are always moving, art lets you slow down and be yourself.
A sociologist who studies social interaction said waiting in line can be a way of distinguishing oneself as part of an elite or niche group.
The Duke Forest, making up over 80 percent of Duke's land, originated as cheap land from a slave-owning family. Now, it has been turned into a major forestry research establishment.
Recess has ended, and it’s snack time at lemur preschool. Meg Dye wants the lemurs to learn to take turns and focus on the teacher.
Submitted by readers and divided among three categories—pioneers, leaders and icons—our selections are all individuals or groups defining what it means to be a member of the Duke community in 2019. To read more about Chron15, click here.
The Duke University Marine Laboratory has chipped in to play a small part in helping the slow recovery process for Eastern North Carolina.
About 21 percent of students in the Class of 2018 pursued a double major, but some overlaps were much more common than others.
A block down from Duke’s East Campus, a nondescript white food truck sits behind a bar. Its owner is really, really excited about chicken tenders.
Alex Balfanz spent four months developing Jailbreak, a computer game that reached 2 billion total plays a month ago.
One in every 28 residents in Durham saw an eviction filing in 2016, and Durham has over 900 filings a month.
The students who would one day become the school’s first undergraduate class were in primary school when the idea was first formed.
The Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership has strengthened the connection between the city and the University since early in President Nannerl Keohane's tenure at Duke.
Check out the results of The Chronicle's Class of 2022 survey.
Duke’s changing infrastructure, disparity in housing amenities and large proportion of students in selective living make housing reform a difficult case.
Sometimes Duke’s gothic architecture tricks us into thinking it has existed since time immemorial. On Central Campus, it isn’t the grandeur of the architecture that triggers this feeling so much as its homely look.
When David Steinbrenner was growing up in Mesa, Arizona, houses with front porches were a luxury. So when he purchased his first house—a brand-new three-bedroom property in Durham’s newly-revitalized Southside neighborhood—its sweeping front porch excited him most. Hailing from a relatively modest background, he never imagined that he would own his dream home by age 40.
