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At their quarterly meeting in May, the Board of Trustees approved a $2.7 billion operating budget for the 2018-2019 fiscal year, three new graduate degree programs and changes to their governance structure.
As Duke conferred more than 5,500 graduate, professional and undergraduate degrees Sunday, Tim Cook—Fuqua ’88 and a member of Duke’s Board of Trustees—told the graduates to be “fearless” when confronting the world’s challenges.
Tim Cook, Fuqua ’88, is the CEO of one of the world’s largest and best-known corporations—and he is this year’s commencement speaker.
Clarence Birkhead joined the Duke University Police Department in 1988 and served as a detective. He rose up through the ranks to become Duke’s Chief of Police, before leaving the department after 17 years.
A new grant will expand the University’s impact on the humanities—both on Duke’s campus and at other schools.
After more than a decade of student activism for an Asian American Studies Program at Duke, the University has officially launched the program.
The night before Last Day of Class, some students were cramming in Perkins for last-minute papers and exams. Others got early starts on the next day’s festivities. The campus was hours away from exploding into the alcohol-fueled frenzy of LDOC.
After both Cardi B and GoldLink swiped left on performing at the Last Day of Classes concert, rap artist and R&B singer Marc E. Bassy jumped in as the last-minute headliner.
Before Duke became "Duke"—before it had a towering Chapel, labyrinth floors of expansive libraries or five basketball national championships—it was Trinity College in Randolph County.
Anthony Copeland graduated from Duke in 1978 with a B.A. in political science and history. He has been North Carolina’s Secretary of Commerce since last year following an appointment by Gov. Roy Cooper. He was back on campus Wednesday morning for a meeting with Dean Bill Boulding at the Fuqua School of Business. He sat down with The Chronicle to talk about HB2, Amazon and the North Carolina job market for Duke’s soon-to-be newest graduates. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
If you were planning on hitting the books in Lower Level 2 of Perkins Tuesday, you were out of luck—the floor is closed due to flooding.
Three Duke students were recently named 2018 Goldwater Scholars.
Update: On March 30, Jasser issued a response to the Muslim Student Association's statement. Jasser's response and MSA's original statement are included in full at the end of the article. The same day, Duke College Republicans updated the location of the event to the Devil's Den. On March 31, Duke MSA changed the location of the teach-in to the Chapel.
When you walk around the corner of Rubenstein Library that juts out toward the bus stop, the first thing you see is the towering Chapel and the statue of James B. Duke. But tucked down low on the corner itself, hidden behind purple and white blooms during the spring and summer, is a less conspicuous monument to the tobacco philanthropist—a thick gray cornerstone that reads “Duke University, Founded by James B. Duke, December 1924.”
A district judge has decided that Duke will have to face a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress over the 2012 death of a student on a study abroad trip, but granted a motion to dismiss claims of negligence and wrongful death in the suit.
Update: American Grand Strategy cancelled an event hosting Duke alum Andrew McCabe, Trinity '90, on campus April 13. There is no information regarding whether the event will be rescheduled.
For the fifth and, for now, final installment of the Dear Old Duke photo series, we look at three professors from different walks of campus—a linguist, a lawyer and a composer. Edna Andrews studies language and the brain, Deborah DeMott teaches art law and Stephen Jaffe is a composer.
Spread throughout a second-floor Perkins meeting room, about 20 professors listened to a presentation about a new major called Ethics and Leadership.
For the fourth installment of the Dear Old Duke series, we focused on three of Duke's social scientists—political scientist Michael Gillespie and historians William Chafe and Seymour Mauskopf—as they talk about how their lives have changed since the original photographs. The first installment of the series featured an archaeologist couple, the second looked at four of Duke's deans and the third focused on two of Duke's biologists. The interviews are edited for length and clarity.
The Arts and Sciences Council has voted down a rules change that would give the faculty at-large a chance to undo unpopular council decisions.
