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These are the voyages of the Star Trek convention on its continuing mission to explore sci-fi, to seek out new fans and product lines and to boldly go where no television show's revenue stream has gone before.
In the last and shortest meeting of the school year, the Academic Council heard a series of updates from university leaders about a number of projects and initiatives.
After an initial pilot program, Auxiliary Services officials have decided to expand DukeCard use at Duke Hospital by allowing employees to make purchases using their cards.
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Larry Moneta's family must have given Durham the okay, because he's coming to Duke.
Duke Student Government wrapped up its year last night with a meeting full of debate and self-congratulations.
Today, the Pratt School of Engineering wraps up a three-day symposium that is functioning jointly as the groundbreaking ceremony for a new $100 million photonics center and as a declaration of Pratt's ambition to turn the Research Triangle into a "photon forest."
Alex Keyssar, professor of public policy and history, was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize in History, the Pulitzer award board announced yesterday.
Is there a doctor in the house?
With the selection of a new vice president for student affairs expected within a week, students are beginning to voice their opinions about what qualities President Nan Keohane should prioritize when making her decision.
Not many students at Duke know the name Judith Ruderman, but as vice provost for academic and administrative services, she has undertaken several projects which have affected students' lives.
Maintenance workers are gearing up for their upcoming negotiations with the University, and it looks like labor relations will be in need of some fixing.
This is the second story in a three-part series profiling the candidates for vice president for student affairs. Duke President Nan Keohane said she will choose the next vice president by the middle of next week.
When Jim Clack took the helm of Student Affairs as its interim vice president almost a year ago, there was little doubt that alcohol policy would consume a great deal of his time. But as his term progressed, alcohol became a less frequent topic of conversation in the division of Student Affairs, making room for other issues.
Not too many students knew who Jim Clack was when President Nan Keohane announced that he would become the interim Vice President of Student Affairs.
Cynthia Cherrey's first introduction to Duke students came Tuesday, April 2 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The University of Southern California Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs was with the thousands of students who crammed Cameron to watch the men's basketball team win the national championship. If Cherrey becomes Duke's next vice president, students can expect to see her at many more campus events.
Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences Norm Christensen received a pleasant surprise at his goodbye gala Sunday night: the announcement of a scholarship named in his honor and the renaming of the school's first reading room as the Norman L. Christensen, Jr. Reading Room.
The Office of Institutional Equity is moving on up-out of the basement of the Bryan Center and into Trent Dormitory. OIE's affirmative action branch is already housed in Trent, but the move will consolidate the entire office to one space.
As most of the nation braces for an economic slowdown, so do the development offices at several universities across the nation. Today, about a dozen American research universities are engaged in capital campaigns seeking a billion dollars or more. At Duke, administrators are beginning to wonder how the economy will affect the University's ongoing $2 billion campaign goal.
Perhaps the campus' biggest and most diverse student organization, the Graduate and Professional Student Council struggles almost daily to understand and represent the needs of each of its vastly different constituencies.
