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Social distancing and stay-at-home orders can pose unique mental-health challenges, but groups of Duke students and staff are doing their best to help.
Last week, students learned that Duke-sponsored summer programs involving travel had been canceled for this summer, including all DukeEngage programs.
Regular Decision Blue Devil Days has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Office of Undergraduate Admissions has come up with creative ways to engage students virtually.
From the pew bench to family couches, Duke Chapel members continue to take part in religious services—just from the comforts of their homes.
This story was written before residential activities were canceled for the semester. According to Vanessa Woods, the puppies were sent to their homes early, and the center has put research on hold but hopes to resume at the beginning of Fall 2020.
After Duke promised to keep qualifying contract workers on a full pay schedule, some workers felt the language used in the promise was unclear, leading them to worry that the policy would exclude a majority of dining workers.
The format of DukeEngage Academy was altered this year, and students are generally pleased with the decision to restructure the program.
Housing and Residence Life changed the price of living in 300 Swift apartments twice in January, and some students are frustrated with the raised costs.
Divinity School faculty are conflicted about the planned split of the United Methodist Church.
When sophomore Daniel Hepworth found himself in high school helping students in the library for nine hours straight sustained only by granola bars, he knew he needed to make a change.
The Boy family, who owned Sam’s Quik Shop for decades, plans to open a “spin-off” of the convenience store in downtown Durham and name it “The Quikie.”
$2.5 million for 27 acres? This may seem exorbitant, but for Duke, this addition to the Duke Forest was well worth the cost.
As controversy surrounds the United Methodist Church’s stance on LGBTQ+ rights, some students argue that Duke Divinity School has struggled to support its own LGBTQ+ students.
At lunchtime last Friday, the Bryan Center was filled not only with Duke students munching on McDonalds and cramming for midterms, but also with the garlicky smell of Papa John’s pizza and the excited chatter of hundreds of eighth graders who were about to eat it.
Looking forward to summer 2020 already, DukeEngage has unveiled seven new project sites—one domestic and the remaining international—while several sites have been eliminated for the coming year.
Despite blustery winds and a cold drizzle, more than 20 volunteers showed up at the Duke Campus Farm’s community work day on Sunday to help its student crew seed parsley plants, harvest tomatoes and thin beets.
James B. Duke had a clause in his endowment’s Indenture of Trust mandating that Duke University eventually include a “School for Training Teachers.” It hasn’t entirely gotten around to fulfilling that clause.
Unlike Duke, many of the University’s peer research institutions centralized their research offices years ago as efforts to improve organizational efficiency and stay up to date on modern practices, rather than as reactions to costly scandals.