$5M gift goes to grad fellowships
An anonymous donor yesterday gave Duke's graduate students their largest financial boost ever, a $5 million matching gift that will fund graduate student fellowships, President Nan Keohane announced.
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An anonymous donor yesterday gave Duke's graduate students their largest financial boost ever, a $5 million matching gift that will fund graduate student fellowships, President Nan Keohane announced.
David Patrick Malone, the 46-year-old gunman who entered President Nan Keohane's office Wednesday, had been there twice earlier in the afternoon, police officials said Thursday.
Since dozens of online class note-publishing companies invaded the Internet a little over a year ago, the academic world-and even one state government-have taken measures to fight back. But because many professors are split on the issue, the responses have varied in intensity.
Despite a concerted University effort to stem alcohol violations on campus, activities last weekend may trigger alcohol investigations of both individuals and selective living groups. Maj. Robert Dean of the Duke University Police Department said two students were taken to the emergency room and another was evaluated by Duke Rescue early Saturday morning.
Security in ACES Web has been called into question after several students reported accessing others' information from computer clusters..
Apparently, Safe Rides is not making people feel that safe.
The importance of classroom attendance can be a topic of contention between faculty and students, but now the corporate world has jumped in the ring.
Despite the much-agreed-upon need to move the student health clinic in Pickens Health Center to a location closer to the student infirmary in Duke Clinic, negotiations on the matter have been slow to start.
It is only a matter of days before fraternities and other student groups kick off the fall party season, but this year, one group-the former Old House CC-will be left behind.
The total number of students referred for disciplinary action rose steeply this year, but trends in individual categories are mixed. The number of incidents of assault and battery, property damages and disorderly conduct fell, whereas violations of the noise policy and alcohol policy climbed.
Most upperclassmen would kill to have some of the schedules handed out to this year's incoming freshmen, 400 of whom found themselves enrolled in three classes or fewer when they picked up their schedules last week.
Correction:
Last year's Duke Student Government president, Lisa Zeidner, told students she would force financial aid to the top of the University's agenda. And a 100-plus-page report from her Task Force on Financial Aid looks like it will make good on her word.
Although the number of crimes committed on campus or at the Medical Center remained above 2,000 in 1999, the figure-compared to 1998-is relatively low: According to statistics released by the Duke University Police Department, the number of crime reports dropped 14 percent in 1999, from 2,472 to 2,120.
Two tiger statues, green with age, guard Princeton's stately Nassau Hall. When Janet Dickerson sees them, she doesn't think about the school's storied academic legacy or even the Princeton football team. What comes to her mind when she walks into the Revolutionary War-era building that will eventually house her office? Clemson University.
Math plus physics plus engineering equals a new consolidated library.
Administrators and students are working hard to prepare campus social life for the August arrival of undergraduates, as they organize a plethora of programming initiatives, including non-alcoholic social options, an alcohol treatment program, better programming for first-year students and improved training for resident advisers.
Following a bitter extended legal battle, Duke employee Sarah JoAn Watson won punitive damages amounting to more than $500,000 in her sexual harassment suit against the University after the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in her favor July 13.
It's a small world after all-at least for the group of nine recent Trinity graduates and three graduate students who have been awarded J. William Fulbright scholarships.
In her first step toward replacing Vice President for Student Affairs Janet Dickerson, President Nan Keohane announced Monday that University Secretary and Vice President Allison Haltom and Associate Professor of Zoology Steve Nowicki will lead the search committee.