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After Fuqua student Willem Fadrhon wrote a prize-winning essay on the future of energy, three energy executives gathered at the University Thursday evening to discuss the future of their industry.
At its meeting Tuesday night, the Graduate and Professional Student Council representatives elected members to serve on two committees.
Each year, Duke undergraduates spend a little more than $50,000 each for tuition, room, board and a higher education.
Students racing to the bus stop to catch the C-1 will soon have bus locations at their fingertips.
Duke Alumni from the classes of 2005, 2000, 1990, 1980, 1970 and 1960 were invited to campus this weekend to reunite and celebrate the years they graduated with their classmates. Alumni from other classes could also be found around campus spending time with friends and family. The Chronicle asked alumni what it was like to be back on campus and how it has changed since they graduated.
A lack of communications left some candidates out of the Graduate and Professional Student Council’s Board of Trustees committee elections Tuesday evening.
The Graduate and Professional Student Council elected new officers to its executive board in a three-hour meeting Tuesday night.
At the Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting Tuesday night, General Assembly members voted to reallocate $6,200 from a retreat that never took place last Fall to Web site development.
The Graduate and Professional Student Council will no longer affiliate with groups associated with the Office of Student Activities and Facilities.
Students should feel a bit more comfortable opting for plastic over cash this week.
Betty’s mother thought her five-year-old daughter would sooner be dead in her arms than in a hospital in Holon, Israel, undergoing a delicate open-heart operation performed by two pediatric cardiologists—one Muslim and one Jewish.
Adrienne Clough was elected graduate Young Trustee at Tuesday night’s Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting.
It’s not every day that your environmental homework comes to life. Two weeks ago, Duke Dining Services first distributed 250 reusable clamshell containers to students, faculty and staff at The Great Hall. Proposed by students in a Duke environmental sciences class, clamshell containers are made of the reusable plastic polypropylene and are designed to replace the disposable containers currently used at the Great Hall. But as of this week, Dining Services officials were unable to provide specific information regarding the effectiveness of the program, such as the amount of trash reduced as a result of this initiative. The data may be reported later this month, however, at which point administrators can expand the program as they deem effective. “The goal was to facilitate a transition to a more environmentally friendly container alternative,” said senior Katherine Rock, a student involved in the project. “That’s what makes it more exciting—that they took our recommendation seriously.” The program was funded by a $4,800 grant from Green Grant Fund, which will cover the cost of 700 containers, said Tammy Hope, Duke Dining Services manager of quality assurance. The first 200 containers were given away for free, and all subsequent clamshells cost $5 on FLEX, food points, credit or cash, according to the Dining Services Web site. Program participants receive a key chain that can be traded in for a clamshell container when purchasing food from The Great Hall. Students must rinse their containers before returning them to large depositories near the cash registers, at which point they are put into the facility’s dishwasher for further sanitizing. “What we’re hoping is that students will have the environmental effect to recognize the harmfulness of [using disposable to-go containers] and will feel inclined to use these clamshells even though it requires them to rinse the clamshells and bring them back,” said junior Kirsten Moy, director of publicity for Environmental Alliance. EA helped publicize the program. Although only currently available at the Great Hall, the clamshells may be making an appearance at other on-campus eateries in the future. But Hope said a current program constraint is consumer participation and the availability of sufficient dishwashing facilities. “Our goal is to expand [the program] on campus,” Hope said. “Right now we’re looking at The Refectory and The Loop.” The idea of clamshells was born last year in the “Food and Energy” course, taught by Charlotte Clark, visiting professor and associate director of education and training at the Nicholas School of the Environment. Students researched different ways to make on-campus dining more eco-friendly, presenting their ideas to various experts on campus at the end of the semester. Five students examined the use of disposable boxes in the Great Hall, discovering that these containers create an enormous amount of waste. According to their report, many students use the disposable option even when dining in the facility, as they prefer the containers for tossing salads. The research team considered a variety of different alternatives—ranging from bagasse, a mixture of bamboo and sugarcane, to styrofoam—and chose one solution to present to Dining Services. “We were all a little skeptical at first about a reusable program at Duke,” Rock said. However, some students said they ultimately favored the clamshell approach over recyclable materials, because it would be more difficult to enforce the recyclable materials program. Recyclables must be cleaned of contents before going in the recycling bin to prevent contamination, said senior Sehhyun Lee, a group member. The research group was inspired after seeing success in a similar program in dining halls at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Graduate and Professional Student Council’s Tuesday night meeting was fraught with tension as students negotiated the development of a new strategic plan.
As students start second semester, 24,682 regular decision applicants are waiting to hear whether they will be able to join them at Duke in the Fall.
Texters young and old will have to restrain their fingers while they drive or face a fine.
The many faces of Israel in the 21st century were discussed at the Freeman Center Sunday as part of the Annual Southeast Region Student Conference.
Republican men may have lost more than their bragging rights in the 2008 election.
Gender designation of rooms on Central Campus is now a practice of the past, Campus Council decided at its meeting Thursday night.
The Student Organization Finance Committee came under scrutiny by Duke Student Government members at the DSG meeting Wednesday night.
