Gates and Rubenstein pledge majority of wealth to charity
Two Duke alumni who have donated substantially to the University have pledged at least half their fortunes to philanthropy.
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Two Duke alumni who have donated substantially to the University have pledged at least half their fortunes to philanthropy.
Matthew Ball, Trinity '10, may be revolutionizing the way students, faculty and staff take the bus at Duke.
In a year when Duke places among the top 10 for best American universities and as the basketball team is headed toward a fourth national championship, the University is coming out on top of another pool: America's most stressful colleges.
March Madness has everyone in the mood for a wager, including Durham Mayor Bill Bell.
President Richard Brodhead will ring the NASDAQ closing bell at 4 p.m. Friday, according to a Wednesday news release.
It takes two college students to fix a Danish fuse, plus three others to help.
Purple kicks off social activism week with a purpose from Duke Chronicle on Vimeo.
Forbes magazine ranked Duke 104 of America's top 600 colleges in its second year of rankings, released Wednesday.
The second of Duke's two sessions of the Talent Identification Program has been canceled, officials announced Wednesday. The early termination results from more than 25 of the 260 students exhibiting flu symptoms.
The University announced today that former president Bill Clinton will be a guest speaker at “A Celebration of the Lives of John Hope and Aurelia Whittington Franklin,” next Thursday, June 11 at the Duke Chapel. The event will begin at 11 a.m. and honors the late historian John Hope Franklin and his late wife Aurelia, who passed away in 1999.
New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof will speak at Duke next Fall, Colleen Scott, associate director of the Baldwin Scholars program confirmed Thursday.
Forbes magazine has ranked Durham third in its Top College Town for Jobs list Tuesday.
We entered college four years ago as a class eager to experience self-exploration and growth together, excited to take full advantage of the University’s myriad programs. By the time I exit just a few weeks from now, that transformation will have been realized, but to a different degree and just from a single experience that spanned a career.
One year after President Richard Brodhead’s “Message to the Duke Community” announced a smaller Duke, a new memo from the president paints a picture of the University’s finances that is relatively less grim.
Some students will have to wait an extra day for confirmation on their Gothic campus rooms.
Krzyzewskiville was shut down after midnight Thursday following the first personal check, likely due to the prevalence of intoxicated students.
During its weekend meeting, the Board of Trustees approved the construction of a new dorm, discussed the University’s financial state and raised the total cost of a Duke undergraduate education past the $50,000 mark for next year.
Several campus locations lost power late Thursday night. The cause of the outage was still unclear as The Chronicle went to press around 4 a.m. Friday.
The Board of Trustees met this weekend to hear updates on the University’s finances and plans in China.
Two men robbed a University Drive business at gunpoint Tuesday evening. No one was injured in the incident.