Junior Yadira Paz-Martinez named 2024 Truman Scholar
(04/17/24 2:31am)
Junior Yadira Paz-Martinez was named a Truman Scholar on Friday.
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Junior Yadira Paz-Martinez was named a Truman Scholar on Friday.
Duke professors discussed trust in higher education, free speech on campus and institutional neutrality at a Saturday panel hosted by Friends for Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity at Duke.
Yuko Kishida, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, visited the Sarah P. Duke Gardens Friday morning to meet with Japanese students and participate in a tea gathering. In the afternoon, both Kishidas met with six Japanese students, including some from Duke, in the offices of the Nagoya University Global Campus at North Carolina State University.
Chief Justice John Roberts spoke Thursday at a private Duke Law ceremony honoring the late Sandra Day O’Connor, former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Duke admitted 1,984 high school seniors to the Class of 2028 through its Regular Decision admissions cycle, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag.
Duke’s Office for Institutional Equity recently updated its Policy on Prohibited Discrimination, Harassment and Related Misconduct to include a definition of Islamophobia, among other changes.
Duke Health released a statement Tuesday responding to recent allegations that the School of Medicine had lowered its admissions standards as part of its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Actor and stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld will be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2024, Duke announced in a video Saturday evening at the Duke-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men’s basketball game.
The results for North Carolina’s 2024 primary election are in. Voters took the polls Tuesday to cast their final ballots for which party candidates they wanted to see proceed to the general elections in November.
Durham City Council voted Monday night to not extend the city’s contract with ShotSpotter, the company behind the controversial gunfire detection software that has operated in the parts of the city since November 2022.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations and former governor of South Carolina, visited Raleigh Saturday to speak to a crowd of supporters in Union Station.
The two dealers behind the supply of fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student on Duke’s campus in March 2023 were sentenced to prison.
The Board of Trustees approved a 4.35% increase to Duke’s undergraduate cost of attendance at a recent quarterly meeting.
Duke is no longer giving essays and standardized testing scores numerical ratings in the undergraduate admissions process.
Academic Council heard from Duke administration about the University’s decision to settle a financial aid antitrust lawsuit and to not confirm or fact-check the results of an investigation into allegations of data fraud against Professor of Business Administration Dan Ariely at its Thursday meeting.
Sophomore Abby Spiller was elected Friday as the editor-in-chief of The Chronicle’s 120th volume.
Hans Joris Van Miegroet, professor of art and art history, died in a car crash Friday night on Academy Road near Duke University Drive, a source familiar with the situation confirmed with The Chronicle Saturday.
Durham Public Schools announced Thursday that all Friday classes were canceled due to “an overwhelming number of staff absences” following weeks of demonstrations by DPS teachers, staff, parents and concerned community members.
Maintenance employees at Duke Raleigh Hospital voted in favor of unionization in a National Labor Relations Board-certified secret ballot Thursday, becoming the first workers in North Carolina to do so in 2024.
Just in time for the biggest college basketball games of the year, sports betting will soon be legal throughout the state.