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Provost Peter Lange's remarks about potential joint-degree programs with other universities were the highlight of a May 6 Academic Council meeting otherwise dominated by committee reports.
Masses of black robes and colored hoods stood at the tops of the steps in Wallace Wade stadium at the 152nd graduation May 9.
The Fuqua School of Business will team up with Frankfurt University's newly-created business school to offer a dual degree beginning in June 2005.
After 15 years, the medical arm of the University will have a new leader.
This weekend marks a bittersweet goodbye for more than 1,600 undergraduate students, more than 1,400 graduate and professional studens and one long-reigning president.
The University is engaged in a disagreement with the city of Durham concerning more than $1 million the city says Duke owes in fees affiliated with construction. Discussions over the course of the last few months have resulted in the disputed amount being lowered to about $600,000, but Duke officials said they still are not satisfied with the bill and how it was computed.
Dr. Victor Dzau, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and chair of the Department of Medicine, will replace Dr. Ralph Snyderman as chancellor for health affairs, University officials announced early Tuesday morning.
As the University considers a policy to charge students for damages to their residence halls, students are thinking about whether membership in selective living groups should be a factor in their accountability.
When Richard Brodhead, Dean of Yale College, sits in his office--a place that oozes Ivy League tradition--it is difficult to imagine him as president of Duke.
Diversity may be the biggest buzzword at Duke right now, but at Yale University, where Richard Brodhead, Duke's future president, has spent the last 40 years, students report that at times it is difficult to grab the administration's attention about minority issues.
There are celebrities on campus and everyone knows about them. At Yale, they are not sports stars, but famous professors and they, like their departments, are considered the best in the country.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The loud music could be heard down the block and students carried red Solo cups as they mingled in a grassy courtyard. Inside, students huddled around three lukewarm kegs in the corner, the alcohol at the bar already gone. It was a typical Friday night in a dorm room in one of the residential colleges at Yale.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - It turns out that Richard Brodhead, the soon-to-be president of Duke, is not just a Yalie or a son of Eli. He's a Branfordian.
Discussion of the recent reports of sexual assaults on campus echoed throughout Wednesday night's Duke Student Government meeting as senators passed several resolutions designed to improve campus safety. They also passed an extensive set of recommendations aimed at reforming pre-major advising.
In a Duke Student Government race for vice president of student affairs that pits members of three different fraternities against each other, sophomore Brandon Goodwin, junior Adam Katz and sophomore Mark Middaugh have placed varying importance on developing campus social life in their bids for the office.
What looks like Blackwell on the outside but feels like West-Edens Link on the inside?
2:01 p.m.
Walking into the room feels like stepping onto a cover of the Duke admissions brochure. The green carpet, the assortment of salvaged used furniture, the retro-style posters that look like old-school Hardy Boys book covers adorning the walls. And the people wearing Duke sweatshirts: the Asian woman, the blond frat boy, the kid with facial piercings, the blond girl with a WWJD key chain hanging out of her pocket, the pair of Latino students, the black man with intricate dreadlocks. The embodiment of Duke's much-lauded diversity.
Although the School of Medicine has revised many aspect of its curriculum for fall 2004, the only substantial change to the fourth year will be the implementation of a capstone course, designed to epitomize the interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum.
