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This past semester, I was hanging out with a friend who had a midterm coming up. Knowing she had been studying virtually nonstop for the past week, I half-jokingly suggested that she could afford to take it easy for a few hours.
After 18 years as vice president for student affairs at Duke, Larry Moneta is set to retire June 30, when Mary Pat McMahon will succeed him as vice provost/vice president for campus life. The Chronicle’s Ben Leonard talked to Moneta about his time at Duke, from his best decisions to his regrets.
After placing fifth and ninth, respectively, at the ACC indoor championships, Duke's women’s and men’s teams looked to improve these marks at the ACC outdoor championships after a strong outdoor season that included a sweep of rival North Carolina at the annual Battle of the Blues.
Disrupting a bee colony can be dangerous—the Blue Devils learned that the hard way.
Duke's first round NCAA tournament game was marked by inconsistency and sloppiness.
Senior Leah Rosen opened her speech at Sunday’s Commencement ceremony with a simple question, one Duke students have heard time and time again.
As the 5,500 soon-to-be-official graduates sat, anxiously awaiting the conferral of their degrees, Lisa Borders took a selfie.
With the NBA Draft Lottery this upcoming Tuesday night, we’re just days away from finding out which lucky franchise will win the chance to select perhaps college basketball’s biggest star since the turn of the century. We all know Zion would fit in pretty much anywhere, but which teams offer the Duke one-and-done the best chance to thrive in the pros? Here are the best—and worst—NBA landing spots for Zion Williamson:
“Sorry, I’m just a little nervous. This is only my second phone interview,” I told my interviewee in October 2015. I felt my heart pounding in my chest. “Don’t worry about it, just take a deep breath and ask your next question. You’re doing fine,” he assured me.
To cap off their third straight perfect season at home, the Blue Devils went through a team that had never been to the Sweet 16 before.
The bitter taste of a loss to Yale in last year’s national championship has remained with the Duke men’s lacrosse team for an entire year.
The Board of Trustees discussed task forces, approved a $2.8 billion budget and re-elected its chair at its annual May meeting.
Chelsea Decaminada, Trinity ‘15, died May 4 due to injuries she sustained during terrorist attacks on Sri Lankan churches and hotels on Easter Sunday.
With one on and two out in the top of the 2nd, junior outfielder Dominique Salinas stepped up to the plate with a chance to put Duke one step closer to its first postseason win in program history.
It’s been a busy six years for Ezra Koenig. In the time since his band released the critically-acclaimed “Modern Vampires of the City” in 2013, the frontman has hosted his own radio show on Beats 1, wrote and produced a Netflix anime series, had a child, stumped for Bernie Sanders, nabbed a production credit on Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and seemingly everything in between. The one thing missing? Another Vampire Weekend album, whose progress — as documented in spurts by Koenig since he hinted at the working title “Mitsubishi Macchiato” back in 2016 — lurched from 80 percent to “94.5 percent” and finally to 100 percent over the span of the last three years. Not since Frank Ocean’s “Blonde” has the wait for an album provoked so much anticipation.
Senior year has seen the renaming of an infamous building, an array of controversies and a star-studded basketball season.
This schedule was compiled based off of the events listed on the Commencement Weekend's official schedule.
From the complete weekend's schedule to recaps of seniors' four years on campus, here's The Chronicle's coverage of Commencement 2019.
Just over a month after visiting the Saugahatchee Country Club, the Blue Devils found themselves back in Opelika, Ala. this week for a second time. But rather than the Evans Derby Experience, Duke was now playing with a trip to the NCAA championship on the line.
After several recent public miscues, Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, is slated to retire at the end of June. Mary Pat McMahon, the incoming vice provost/vice president for campus life, will succeed Moneta in the role.