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At my internship in Florida last summer, I marked my time by how comfortable I grew behind the wheel. I noticed when I could drive to the newsroom without pulling up Google Maps, when I would get that pang of recognition on the left turn from the gas station to the road next to the cemetery, when I could time the drive from the beach to my house in two MUNA songs.
First the programming went. Then the people.
Senior Sydney Hunt and Warren Lattimore, a doctoral candidate in theology at the Divinity School, were chosen by the Young Trustee Nominating Committee and President Vincent Price as Duke’s next Undergraduate and Graduate Young Trustees, respectively, wrote Margaret Epps, secretary to the Board of Trustees and Price’s chief of staff, in a Monday email to The Chronicle.
Students elected new Duke Student Government senators and vice presidents in an online election Wednesday and Thursday.
Starting this year, student speakers at Commencement will only give “brief welcome remarks,” not full-length speeches, per a Wednesday email sent to the Duke community.
Alec D. Gallimore, the current Robert J. Vlasic dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, will be Duke’s next provost and chief academic officer, according to a Friday announcement from President Vincent Price.
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett spoke at Duke Wednesday evening in Page Auditorium, where nearly a hundred students and Duke community members walked out in protest.
Duke will no longer require masks on buses and vans, per a Sunday email to students, faculty and staff. Masks will continue to be required in patient-care and clinical settings and for anyone who is symptomatic.
Duke is looking to challenge a 2016 National Labor Relations Board decision that affirms the legal right for graduate students to unionize as employees. Since the Duke Graduate Students Union filed for legal certification last week, the University has maintained that graduate students are not employees and that it does not support their unionization efforts.
Just days after the Duke Graduate Students Union filed for legal certification, Duke administrators came out against the union in a Monday email. Now multiple groups, including the Duke Graduate and Professional Students Government, are responding with calls for Duke to remain “neutral” during the union authorization campaign.
Three undergraduate seniors have been selected as this year's Young Trustee finalists.
Candidates for Duke Student Government’s upcoming elections announced their campaigns on Thursday. Juniors Chase Barclay, Isaiah Hamilton and Robert Sprung are running for DSG president, while juniors Ashley Bae and Brandon Qin are running for the executive vice president position.
The Chronicle will be publishing endorsement letters for the 2023 Duke Student Government presidential election from Friday, Feb. 17 to Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 11:59 p.m. No endorsements will be published the days of the election. The final deadline for endorsements is Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 6 p.m.
Junior Jess Chen will be next year’s Duke University Union president and junior Arianna Dwomoh will be DUU executive vice president.
The Duke School of Medicine will no longer participate in the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Medical Schools ranking.
Some West Campus resident assistants are frustrated at a Housing and Residence Life decision to move back their end of semester leave dates by a week to May 18, saying it was made without sufficient communication and transparency.
As COVID-19 cases decline in Durham, Duke will not require masking in classrooms at this time, per a Monday email from administrators.
Durham is seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases and has been moved into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “high risk” classification. If Durham remains high risk for two consecutive weeks, Duke will return to mandatory masking in classrooms until the risk level drops, according to an email sent to students, faculty and staff from Duke administrators on Monday afternoon.
It’s been a year of transitions, which means new faces, new traditions, anxieties, emergings. Our most popular stories reflect not only a university that has made a name for itself on the national stage, but one relentlessly committed to caring for, scrutinizing and bettering its own community too.
John Burness, former senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, died Monday at 77 years old. He is remembered for his furthering of Duke-Durham relations, his mentorship and the relationships he cultivated on campus and in Durham.
