‘Two days left of college’: Seniors reflect on community, experience as 'COVID class'
(05/07/24 4:42am)
In their final days as undergraduates, members of the Class of 2024 shared some of their fondest memories at Duke.
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In their final days as undergraduates, members of the Class of 2024 shared some of their fondest memories at Duke.
Hundreds of Durham and Triangle workers and community members participated in a May Day demonstration Wednesday evening to demand a $25 minimum wage, affordable housing, a cease-fire in Gaza and that Duke pay its fair share in taxes.
Duke Kunshan University exchange students reported challenges establishing a sense of community at Duke, citing frustration with housing and difficulty integrating into the campus social scene.
Duke’s last day of classes was a cause for celebration.
Salam Fayyad, former prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, spoke at a Monday event about the viability of the two-state solution and the need for a more inclusive approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Running on the platform “connect, empower and transform,” Duke Student Government presidential candidate Emily Yagoda hopes to amplify diverse student voices on campus, facilitate collaboration with student groups and promote open communication.
The Durham Public Schools Board of Education met Thursday with representatives from the Durham Association of Educators to discuss the adoption of a meet and confer process to foster consistent dialogue between the board and classified employees.
Starting in fall 2023, non-Greek selective living groups were required to transition into living learning communities or Duke Student Government-approved student groups in order to live in sections in campus housing or hold recruitment events as part of QuadEx.
Durham community members gathered outside Merrick-Moore Elementary School Wednesday morning for a “walk-in” in solidarity with classified workers of Durham Public Schools, who are facing pay cuts and ongoing staffing issues.
Matthew Waxman, a law professor at Columbia University and an adjunct senior fellow for Law and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, spoke at Tuesday’s Program in American Grand Strategy event on the long-term implications of the war between Israel and Hamas.
Most Duke Kunshan University students from the Class of 2024 and 2025 began their college experience in Durham, when the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made travel to China impossible. In the following years, several DKU students have applied to transfer to Duke, citing pandemic disruptions and academic differences as some of their reasons to return to Durham.
Christine Wormuth, United States Secretary of the Army, spoke at a Wednesday fireside chat hosted by the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy about the current state of civil-military relations and the challenges to the Army’s recruitment efforts.
As part of the requirement for Duke’s public policy major, students participate in an undergraduate internship to apply their policy knowledge and skills in real-world settings.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Duke men’s basketball coach Jon Scheyer spoke Wednesday in Page Auditorium about the “public health issue” of loneliness as part of the first stop on Murthy’s “We Are Made To Connect” national tour.
Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, spoke at a Wednesday event about social and political developments in Ukraine in the context of Russia’s invasion in 2022.
Duke’s Transformative Ideas program provides an intellectual community for sophomores to engage in interdisciplinary conversations and explore life’s big questions and universal truths.