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March 10, when President Vincent Price announced classes would transition online, was a historic day for Blue Devils. Many students casually exchanged goodbyes before taking off for spring break, thinking they would see each other in just a week—only to realize days later that their time on campus had come to an abrupt end. Some would never walk across the quad as a student again.
Not everyone is fully on board with the NCAA instituting a policy to allow athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness (NIL).
In the wake of DukeEngage’s Summer 2020 cancellation, program directors and students have adapted to do research and community work from a distance.
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Duke has secured space in hotels and apartment buildings to house students in the fall, and changes are coming to on-campus living that include a lack of selective living group housing.
For the first time in its 13-year history, the documentary studies course Small Town USA: Local Collaborations underwent a complete curriculum change to adjust for remote learning.
After showing great potential with her 2017 EP “RINA,” Rina Sawayama has returned with her debut full-length album "SAWAYAMA" — perhaps one of the best pop records of the year so far.
A good education, respectable job, beautiful home and a nuclear family — these metrics have long been the emblems of success in America.
What exactly is expressive writing? Evans described it as a simple opportunity to express your most significant feelings about what is currently affecting your life.
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Friday that two death row inmates can present evidence that race tainted their trials, a significant decision for many prisoners on death row in the state.
Meet with students and console crying babies. Lecture and put a movie on for the kids. Research and homeschool. For Duke faculty with young children, this is the daily reality.
On May 24, The New York Times printed on its front page the names of 1,000 victims, just 1% of the over 100,000 people who have lost their lives to COVID-19. Among them, a newlywed, a jazz pianist, an educator and a portraitist — all members of a greater community.
As much as I can claim to dislike TikTok or attempt to avoid the app entirely, I still find myself singing TikTok hits like “Roxanne” by Arizona Zervas or “Don’t Start Now” by Dua Lipa.
After a national search, John Blackshear will be Duke’s next dean of students and associate vice president of student affairs.
When Scotty Shaw, Trinity ‘09, helped create HackDuke: Code for Good, a social impact hackathon at Duke, he had no idea he’d later work on a hackathon organized by the European Commission to combat the effects of a global pandemic.
Black undergraduate students at Duke continue to grieve alongside many members of the Black community nationwide over the losses of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Sean Reed, George Floyd, and the countless other victims of racially charged violence against Black people in America.
I’m a first-generation kid, too. I’ve had to grapple with my two identities as an Indian and an American in plenty of ways. “Never Have I Ever” presents that in a powerfully relatable yet comical way.
The Power Company closed in 2000 when the owners transitioned the space into Teasers Men’s Club, but former frequenters regularly share music, photos and memories that ensure its legacy endures.
Ensuring that Williamson and the Pelicans have a chance to make the playoffs is a strategy that promotes emerging teams and players as the league moves into this next decade.
After a national search, the Duke University School of Medicine named Adrian Hernandez the new vice dean and executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute last month.
Young people can help change a system that perpetuates racial inequality by donating or protesting—and heading to the polls. That was just one of the messages given by a panel of four Duke faculty in a Tuesday media conference, as protests over police brutality and the death of George Floyd, who died May 25 after a police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes, continued across the country.
I am proud to have stood in solidarity with my comrades, many of whom I have never met. And yet, I now feel as if they are all my extended family. My family of peace. My family of Durham.
Duke has canceled all undergraduate study away programs for the Fall 2020 semester, citing health and safety concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
To everyone’s amazement, the swimmer made a comeback of the ages. 18 months after her return, she stood at lane four in the then McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium for the 100 Meter Freestyle final.
