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Duke’s surveillance testing program has not yet expanded to include contract workers, which the former president of the union representing Duke employees said shows a lack of care for those workers on the part of the University.
Senior Sydney McKinney was sitting in an airport this summer, scrolling through eBooks, when she noticed that the top 10 trending books were all about anti-racism. This gave her an idea: starting Duke’s Anti-Racism Book Club.
In June, Duke’s administration committed to taking action against racism in the Duke community. On Tuesday, the community learned more about the steps they’ve taken.
Even amid the virtual school year’s increase in workload and challenges related to equity, technology and supervision, Durham Public Schools teachers are teaching and students are learning, teachers and administrators say.
If the the entry tests Duke performed on the general student body had come back positive for COVID-19 at the same rate as July entry tests for student-athletes, Duke would have had around 340 positive cases as students returned to campus. But only 24 Duke students tested positive for the coronavirus upon entry after Aug. 2. What happened?
Forbes Magazine recently named Duke the seventh-best educational employer for women in the United States, but what do female professors think about that accolade?
Feeling like all you do these days is study, eat and sleep? Spice up your routine with one of The Chronicle’s suggestions for safe activities during this unprecedented semester.
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Instead of making the annual mad rush to the C1 bus on the morning of convocation, Duke’s Class of 2024 livestreamed the event on YouTube from their dorm rooms and homes in Durham and around the world.
From combating “Zoom burnout” to avoiding time zone conflicts, student leaders have been working tirelessly this summer to brainstorm ways to conduct engaging virtual events.
Update: This story was updated at 7:25 p.m. Friday to reflect that the international student who graduated this spring was approved to receive money from the Student Assistance Fund.
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As Duke moves forward with preparations for students’ return to campus, the rate of new COVID-19 cases in North Carolina is rising.
Students have mixed opinions about the early plan for a return to campus that President Vincent Price announced May 29.
In the weeks since the death of George Floyd, many Duke clubs and social organizations have spoken out in solidarity with and support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
When Scotty Shaw, Trinity ‘09, helped create HackDuke: Code for Good, a social impact hackathon at Duke, he had no idea he’d later work on a hackathon organized by the European Commission to combat the effects of a global pandemic.
After distributing nearly $22,000 in aid to members of the Duke community, the students behind Duke Mutual Aid are currently restructuring their model, according to sophomore Lily Levin, one of the students leading the effort.
When Duke students learned that classes were moving online, many were on spring break trips with friends or lounging in their childhood homes. But senior Peter Sun was spending nine-hour days working on the largest volunteer-run COVID-19 case tracker in the United States.
Mary Adkins, Trinity ‘04, is the author of “Privilege,” which came out last month. Set at Carter University, a fictional university known as “the Harvard of the South,” the novel explores sexual assault, imposter syndrome and inequality in campus judicial systems. The Chronicle spoke to Adkins about her journey to becoming an author, the ways Duke inspired her fictional university and what she hopes readers will take away from her new book. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Before COVID-19 became a global pandemic and confined most Americans to their homes, two students at the Fuqua School of Business raised more than $4,000 for medical supplies to send to Wuhan, China, where the virus originated.
