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Vice President for Institutional Equity Sally Dickson will become the latest high-level administrator to depart the University when she returns to Stanford University this summer as vice provost for faculty development and associate dean of humanities and sciences.
After several days of construction noise that one visiting professor said sent her home with her eardrums reverberating, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask decided last week to pause drilling for Perkins Library renovations during class hours.
With the announcements of a five-star rating from the North Carolina Division of Child Development and plans for a 6,900-square-foot, $1.4 million expansion that will boost capacity to 153 children, Duke Children's Campus has made March a noteworthy month for University parents seeking child care.
When President George W. Bush's administration said it would bypass a U.N. Security Council resolution guiding its actions in Iraq, many wondered what the decision would mean for the United Nations as an effective international diplomatic body. University experts' opinions differed, but most said the U.S. decision would not necessarily spell doom for the United Nations.
This is the first story in a five-part series profiling this year's candidates for Duke Student Government president.
Bringing the Divinity School's curriculum under review for the first time since the mid-1980s, members of the committee conducting the review are aiming to update the curriculum for an increasingly diverse and interconnected global community.
School was out and a thin layer of snow blanketed the ground, but the only movement across the Chapel Quadrangle was students making the trek from dormitory to library.
Duke may have its share of ties to country clubs, but student reports that service at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club has been less than clubby have spurred administrators and student leaders to question some of the Washington Duke restaurant's policies.
For the time being at least, the graduate program for the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature is likely out of the woods.
Although a Medical Center program designed to improve health care for Latinos secured a one-year federal grant at the beginning of September, program coordinators did not find out about the award until October. This little complication aside, planners and newly-hired staffers at the Latino Access to Coordinated Healthcare program wasted no time preparing for Wednesday's kick-off.
Senior Rod Fertig no longer has to brave the elements when he wants to get in touch with the folks back in Wyoming.
Students and teachers at Moorehead Montessori Elementary School--one of the target schools in Duke's Neighborhood Partnership Initiative--will soon be able to enjoy their lessons in the shade of a new Outdoor Learning Environment.
In an informal talk Wednesday, Charlotte Pierce-Baker, associate research professor of women's studies and author of Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape, stressed the importance of a "theory of the flesh" when dealing with victims of sexual assault.
Three political journalists met in a panel discussion Saturday to discuss the causes and effects of last week's historic midterm elections, in which the president's party broke a long-standing trend by gaining seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate during the administration's first midterm elections.
With charges pending against Local 77 that the union did not fulfill its obligations to its constituents during summer contract negotiations, members of the 950-person union are expressing mixed reactions. Although some agree with the complaints, others blame low wage increases on the University.
Accusing the largest labor union on Duke's campus of inadequately representing its constituents and coercing members into accepting a smaller wage increase than in previous contracts, a dining services employee and member of Local 77 has filed charges challenging his union's new contract.
Although the University prides itself on being a family friendly workplace, on-campus lactation rooms--uninviting, unkempt and few and far between--suggest ample room for improvement.
With less than two weeks until the November elections, voters will have the opportunity to interact with local politicians Sunday night at a Candidates Forum in Von Canon C.
Before construction can begin on a proposed senior housing development, the Durham Housing Authority must gain city approval to convert the former Medical Center laundry facility on Gattis Street.
Hundreds gathered in front of the Chapel Wednesday as students and faculty--even a few from other universities--took up the megaphone in opposition to a war on Iraq.
