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Students seeking emergency contraception will soon no longer have to go to Pickens Health Center "the morning after," due to Student Health Services' decision to prescribe the pills in advance.
Last week's Food and Drug Administration approval of RU-486, an abortion-inducing drug available in Europe, may change the face of the abortion debate nationwide and here at Duke-but no one's making any guesses about how.
Facing one of the Triangle's longest and largest blood shortages in history, area health professionals are looking to the Red Cross to boost the amount of blood units in storage.
The budget for arts and sciences has fallen short by about $4 million this year, spurring the administration to dip into the division's $7 million reserves and search for ways to offset the increasing cost of hiring new professors.
Two pressing employee issues-the University's grievance policy and Latino employee concerns-will now receive special consideration as Myrna Adams, former vice president for institutional equity, takes on her new position as special assistant to Executive Vice President Tallman Trask.
The estimated $30,000 left from the University's unsuccessful non-alcoholic programming will soon be re-allocated by a committee headed by Rick Gardner, coordinator at the Event Advising Center.
From the construction of Edens Quadrangle to the building of the Wilson Recreation Center, Duke has been no stranger to capital improvements over the last decade. But for the first time in over 30 years, it will soon witness major renovations to an institution at its heart-Perkins Library.
Just a couple weeks after she drove back to Duke this year, sophomore Katherine MacGregor received a letter from Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. informing her that her tires could be defective, a fact she had already learned first-hand when two of them blew out earlier last summer.
Over 200 academic economists, including two Duke professors, have signed a letter criticizing many universities for not deliberating sufficiently before deciding to join anti-sweatshop organizations such as the Fair Labor Association and the Worker Rights Consortium.
Following three largely unsuccessful weekends of non-alcoholic programming sponsored by the Alcohol Task Force, the next two weeks' planned activities have been canceled. The Oct. 6 joint task force/Sigma Chi Derby Days will continue as planned.
Campus Police are investigating a suspect in connection with last weekend's 14 burglaries following several additional reports of burglaries in Stonehenge Dormitory early Sunday morning, said Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department.
After a student left a candle burning in his empty room in Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Saturday morning, a fire broke out, injuring no one but causing severe damage to the student's room.
Students who think they have a problem with substance abuse can now get treatment heavily subsidized by the University.
Five Duke-led research projects received $10 million in grants from the National Science Foundation Wednesday as part of the organization's $90 million initiative to advance information technology research.
Dozens of pre-business undergraduates lined up in the Bryan Center yesterday to tap into one of their greatest resources at Duke-students from the Fuqua School of Business.
The Duke University Police Department received 14 reports from students who said cash was stolen from their unlocked rooms as they slept sometime between early Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.
This year's Community Service Center co-directors are striving to unite the University's student groups by assembling their leaders-and the first step, they think, is getting them in the same room.
A committee of four administrators, four faculty members, four students and one trustee will begin the search for the new vice president for student affairs in early October, University Secretary and Vice President Allison Haltom announced Monday.
Six months after Duke Student Government's bungled executive elections, election officials made ballots incorrectly for last Thursday's legislative election. Senior Mike Lieberman, freshman Stephanie Crissy and one other candidate were initially left off the ballots. Lieberman and Crissy were put on the ballot before 10 a.m., and both won. But the other candidate, who did not win, was missing until the afternoon.
What was just an abandoned building last year will soon be a place for fostering intellectual thought and the use of cutting-edge technology.
