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The Board of Trustees has bestowed a great responsibility and honor upon you. Hundreds of thousands of Duke students, faculty, staff and alumni are now looking to see what direction you will set for this institution. We hope you will use the trust you have been given to support, enrich and broaden the community that you now join.
For most of the past four years, Dr. John Bartlett, associate director of research at the Duke Global Health Institute, has been living in Tanzania. There, he has worked with physicians and researchers from Duke and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre to conduct research on AIDS and other widespread disease in the country, as well as help build clinics, improve medical infrastructure and train local medical personnel.
Kentucky finally ran into a wall Sunday, but not before beating Clemson, North Carolina and Duke at the ITA Indoor Championships.
If not for two last-second victories, the team that started the season at No. 3 in the nation would have lost six straight ACC games.E
Down two big men, Duke survived a series of scares over the break while facing out-of-conference competition--even one to ACC cellar-dweller Clemson. But 11 games into the season the Blue Devils remain undefeated and ranked fifth in the nation.E
They say that good things come in small packages, and for petite sophomore Adedayo Adeniran, that couldn't be more true. The only female competitor in Campus Council's "Ultimate Hot Dog Challenge," Adeniran defied all expectations Monday night by defeating her 21 larger, more testosterone-infused competitors in only 6:22.
For the first time since 1992, no Duke students or alumni were awarded Rhodes Scholarships this year. The prestigious scholarship, which allows college graduates from across the world to study at the University of Oxford for two or three years, is granted to 32 American students annually.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The women's cross country team completed its best season in school history with a runner-up finish in the NCAA Cross Country Championships Monday. A trio of Blue Devils earned All-American, and Sally Meyerhoff led the team with a 16th-place finish. Meaghan Leon heard the voice of head coach Kevin Jermyn screaming through the crowd at the NCAA Cross Country Championships as she spotted the finish line.
Thrilling Duke-UNC overtime victory for Blue Devils
A jury found Michael Peterson guilty of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, whose body was found at the bottom of a staircase in their home in December 2001.
The following text is an edited version of President Nan Keohane's speech to incoming members of the Class of 2005 on August 23, 2001.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday, May 11
DISTRIBUTION OF DIPLOMAS
The law school's search for a new dean, while slower than expected, is finally closing in on some candidates and should be complete by the end of the semester.
GREENVILLE, N.C. - Decorated by plenty of pomp and hype, a sun-drenched stage was in place Saturday for Carl Franks' much-anticipated debut as Duke's head coach. Franks exuded confidence and quarterback Spencer Romine was comfortably strapped into the pilot's seat, itching at the thought of taking the perennially-suffering program airborne.
The following is an edited text of President Nan Keohane's prepared convocation speech.
The estate of Kathrine Everett announced April 28 that it will donate $14 million to the law schools at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
One day, about two years ago, the music died.
The criminal case against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternity responsible for last year's death of a freshman pledge was abandoned Oct. 22 when prosecutors learned that the fraternity had disbanded. In effect, they realized, the defendant no longer exists.
