DREAM Act, ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal fail to clear Senate
(12/10/10 10:40am)
The Senate failed to pass two major immigration and military policy measures Thursday.
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The Senate failed to pass two major immigration and military policy measures Thursday.
The House of Representatives voted to pass the DREAM Act yesterday, a bill that would offer legal status to some young illegal immigrants.
With the U.S. Senate expected to vote on a pro-immigration measure this week, President Richard Brodhead has expressed his support for the bill.
President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate a Duke professor to a key administration post, the White House announced yesterday.
The rise of China may not necessarily be at the expense of the United States, three professors noted during a panel Tuesday night.
The long-time distributor of The Chronicle had her car stolen and house broken into early last Wednesday.
Duke competed with the nation’s elite wrestling programs over the weekend at the Cliff Keen Wrestling Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev., scoring eight points to finish 30th out of 36 teams. Five of the top-10 ranked teams were in attendance, including unanimous No. 1 Cornell, who won the weekend with 140 points, almost 40 more than its nearest competitor.
A man was shot and killed a few blocks off campus Friday afternoon.
A former Duke surgeon is the second ex-employee to be charged for the embezzlement of $267,000 from the University.
A new collaborative effort providing funding to students at Duke and UNC received 91 applications, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta confirmed in an e-mail yesterday.
New cries have arisen in response to the accidental use of hydraulic-fluid-tainted surgical instruments on DUHS patients in late 2004.
Senior Jared Dunnmon was selected as one of just 32 recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship this weekend.
Three weeks after Dr. Joseph Nevins e-mailed co-authors of a paper acknowledging it needed to be retracted, The Journal of Clinical Oncology has formally granted the request.
As part of a seven-year grant, Duke University Medical Center received $52.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to house a central quality assurance program for the testing of potential HIV vaccines.
Dr. Victor Dzau was honored Sunday with the American Heart Association’s 2010 Research Achievement Award.
The Fuqua School of Business was ranked sixth in BusinessWeek’s biannual “Best U.S. B-Schools of 2010,” marking a two-spot improvement since it was last evaluated in 2008.
Facebook and North Carolina are now friends.
Former Trinity sophomore Eric Irons will face rape allegations in district court Jan. 27—more than two months after his original scheduled date. His court date was recently changed from Nov. 9 on the North Carolina Court System’s website.
President of the UNC system Erskine Bowles was recognized for strong leadership during challenging times Friday.
Huntington Willard, director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, was appointed Monday as senior adviser to Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education.