Senate confirms new cabinet and exec. board
(04/27/11 8:00am)
Duke Student Government confirmed its incoming executive board and presidential cabinet at its last meeting of the year Tuesday.
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Duke Student Government confirmed its incoming executive board and presidential cabinet at its last meeting of the year Tuesday.
The rapidly approaching end to classes presents an opportunity for the Duke community to reflect on a year that at different times attracted desirable and unwanted national attention. In the same year that a PowerPoint raised questions of what values define student culture, the University received the largest donation in its history— an $80 million gift that will allow Duke to overhaul central gathering areas for students. The Chronicle’s Julian Spector sat down with President Richard Brodhead Thursday, focusing in particular on his role in helping students shape campus culture.
Critically acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver came to Duke last week to accept the Nicholas School of the Environment’s award for Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts. Kingsolver studied evolutionary biology and ecology at the collegiate and graduate level before pursuing a career in writing. After her acceptance speech, Kingsolver sat down with The Chronicle’s Julian Spector to talk about her approach to writing, the intersection of science and art and how farming contributes to her writer’s lifestyle.
Great art combines with a wealth of scientific knowledge in the work of Barbara Kingsolver.
Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall has brought her research to Duke.
Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Peter King, R-NY, recently convened controversial hearings on homegrown Muslim radicalization in the United States. During the hearings, congressmen cited research by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, a joint research endeavor by Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and RTI International. David Schanzer, associate professor of the practice of public policy, serves as director of the Triangle Center and has written extensively on topics of counterterrorism and national security. He is the lead author of the Triangle Center’s 2010 report “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim Americans,” which found a number of ways in which Muslim communities actively work to prevent radicalization and homegrown terrorism in their communities. Schanzer recently spoke with The Chronicle’s Julian Spector.
Eight years ago, a campaign launched by two Duke students helped change the way the University constructs buildings.
Building on the established Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts Award, the Nicholas School continues to promote art as a means of communicating environmental themes to the public.
The crossroads of science and art yields a most fertile environment for the exchange of ideas.
Recent Nicholas School graduate Chris Beauvais, a generous friend and hiking enthusiast, passed away Saturday morning at age 29 due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
Towering 175 feet above Campus Drive, the smokestack of the East Campus Steam Plant stands as a striking reminder of Duke’s past.
The act of walking can provide exercise, a time to reflect on the day, even a glimpse of the Great Outdoors. But for the characters in The Way Back, walking offers a grueling, potentially deadly path to freedom.
In the months following the Gulf oil spill last April, a group of experts has searched for answers. Members of the Duke community were presented with first-hand insight into the investigation Monday night.
Journalist Michele Norris has co-hosted National Public Radio’s evening news show ‘All Things Considered’ since Dec. 9, 2002. She previously reported for ABC News, where she received a Peabody Award and an Emmy for her coverage of 9/11, and she has written for The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. She was named “Journalist of the Year” in 2009 by the National Association of Black Journalists. Norris spoke in the Jones Chapel at Meredith College in Raleigh Monday on the last leg of a book tour for her new memoir, The Grace of Silence. Afterward, she talked with The Chronicle’s Julian Spector.
The raucous debate over health care legislation in 2009 brought issues of medical care and cost management to the national forefront. In Durham, Duke’s Division of Community Health has addressed the issues at a local level by crafting its own health care delivery system within the community.
Richard Mooney is the director of graduate studies for the Program in Neurobiology and has been running a lab at Duke since 1994. Mooney, the George Barth Geller Professor of Research and Neurobiology, is dedicated to understanding the biological basis of learning by studying the learning processes of songbirds. The Chronicle’s Julian Spector spoke with Mooney about his research.
Faculty and students rarely find themselves threatened by their own garbage.
Have you ever wanted to see Robert Downey, Jr. get a face-full of Zach Galifianakis’ hairy gut? It’s really rather amusing.
Fresh on the heels of its mostly sold-out fall show Into the Woods, Hoof ‘n’ Horn has entered its 75th season as the self-proclaimed oldest student-run theatrical group in the South.
On a night when Republicans took control of the House of Representatives and gained seats in the Senate, some undergraduates and many graduate students gathered in the Sanford Building’s Fleischman Commons for an election night watch party.