Women look for better mentoring
Women at Duke find the current procedures for advising and mentoring to be lacking, according to data collected by the Steering Committee and Duke Inquiries in Gender from current students and alumni.
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Women at Duke find the current procedures for advising and mentoring to be lacking, according to data collected by the Steering Committee and Duke Inquiries in Gender from current students and alumni.
Author J. M. Coetzee gave a reading from his latest novel at the Freeman Center for Jewish Life Thursday, just two weeks after the South African was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A joint session of the Arts and Sciences Council and the Engineering Faculty Council approved a new short-term illness excuse policy Thursday that will take effect after the fall break.
During this time of year, undergraduate admissions officers Stacy Scarfutti-Rusak, Anne Sjostrom and Carrie Williams would normally be traveling around the country meeting with high school seniors. Instead, they are spending time with another group of youngsters who really need attention--their new babies.
Nearly 100 people gathered Tuesday to celebrate the life and works of Edward Said, a controversial intellectual and political activist, who died last week in New York City. Said was a literature professor at Columbia University, but was more popularly known for his defense of the Palestinian position in the Middle East conflict.
Peter Lange addressed the first Academic Council meeting of the year Thursday, presenting a summary of new policies to be implemented in response to reports from the Faculty Diversity Task Force and the Women's Faculty Development Task Force.
Put away your coloring books, or--gasp!--text books. Duke students have come up with some new rainy-day activities.
The Arts and Sciences Council was all dressed up but had nowhere to go during its first meeting of the year Thursday.
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology Katherine Ewing has assumed the chair of Arts and Sciences Council during a time of great change both for the council and for the Arts and Sciences faculty in general.
The first two weeks of school mean spending large sums of money on textbooks.
Nitin Desai did not come to Duke to enjoy a round of golf at the Washington Duke during the first week of his retirement from the position of United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs. Instead, he made a case for sustainable development as a more clearly defined discipline at the university level.
Senior Devon MacWilliam had reasonable goals when she began her freshman year at Duke.
Signaling the latest step in what some hope will result in an Asian American studies program at the University, three national scholars examined the field's place in academia and its potential at Duke at a colloquium Wednesday.
When administrators envisioned the West-Edens Link, they included plans for a new type of common space. The resulting seminar rooms, designed as areas for more focused academic use, are so far drawing mixed reaction from residents.
As President George W. Bush's threats against the Iraqi government mount, one campus group is seeking to give voice to those against a possible war.