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Ryan Thornburg, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be joining the Duke community as the visiting journalist for The Chronicle and a visiting lecturer in digital media at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.
Students on West Campus will soon be able to have food from The Loop and Pitchfork Provisions delivered directly to them.
University Trustee Bob Penn, Trinity '74 and his wife, Katherine, Trinity '74, have donated $10 million to the University to support the new Events Pavilion.
Despite traditionally admitting low numbers of transfer students, Duke administrators are seeking to slowly increase the presence of transfer students among the student body.
Although the number of calls to Duke Emergency Medical Services holds steady from last year's Orientation Week, fewer were attributed to issues concerning alcohol consumption.
Senior Patrick Oathout, former executive vice president of Duke Student Government, started the mobile application Uhuru this summer. The philanthropic app can be used to help support start-up business run by refugees. Oathout hopes his app will inspire others to not only support the business, but also find their own ways to pursue philanthropic goals. The Chronicle sat down with Oathout to discuss the process of designing the innovative application.
As students return to campus, there are many noticeable changes—perhaps the most noticeable being a change to the main dining hall on West Campus.
Over 1,700 freshmen filled the chapel as the Class of 2017 was welcomed to their college experience at Wednesday’s Convocation ceremony.
As a new academic year approaches, the leaders of Duke Student Government are gearing up to accomplish their goals.
Duke is increasing the expected sanctions for students found guilty of sexual assault.
Six alumni joined the Board Monday.
By the end of the summer, the stone walls of West Union will be obscured from view by white construction fences until July 2015. From top to bottom, inside and out, the central building will be demolished and replaced by a tall glass atrium, more inviting than the segmented Gothic enclosure that has been a staple of West Campus since its construction in the 1920s.
Three years into its seven year campaign, Duke Forward has raised 50.1 percent of its $3.25 billion goal.
Senior Stefani Jones will work to enact her vision as this year’s Duke Student Government president. Last year, as DSG vice president of equity and outreach, Jones lead the task force that overturned the University’s sexual misconduct policy. In January 2012, The Office of Student Conduct changed the sexual misconduct policy so that victims of sexual assault had one year, instead of the previous two, to report the incident. After months of student protest and multiple conversations between Jones and administrators, the University overturned the decision. The Chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm sat down with Jones to discuss what else she hopes to accomplish this year as DSG president.
Students will have a new set of dining choices on West Campus when they return to Duke in the Fall.
In their meeting Friday, the executive committee of the Board of Trustees did not have an opportunity to advance the West Union renovations, which were halted by the Board in May.
Libraries have served as campus hubs for connecting people and ideas since the first students began studying at the University—yet the role of campus libraries is changing, and with it, the role of librarians.
High school students will be joining undergraduates in the classroom during Duke’s second summer session.
Chinese leaders have reportedly banned seven topics of discussion from university classrooms.
Gene Klein travels the world with his daughter, Jill Klein, to discuss surviving the Holocaust and the amazing power of human resilience. The pair came to Duke to speak with administrators about the power of resilience. Jill is a marketing professor at the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne and was a visiting professor at the Fuqua School of Business in 1994. She recently published a book, We Got the Water: Tracing My Family’s Path Through Auschwitz, which chronicles her father’s internment during World War II. The Chronicle’s Carleigh Stiehm sat down with the duo to discuss Gene Klein’s experience, the book and the importance of learning from our past.
