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More than a hundred prospective freshmen wandered around campus Monday, looking a little lost and trying to find the essence of Duke at the second of five Blue Devil Days - a series of programs designed by the admissions office to entice admitted freshmen to choose Duke.
A simple slogan - gay? fine by me - moved about campus Monday as people donned free T-shirts in support of gay rights.
Despite the recent rain and wind that kept the normal hordes of students from lobbying for causes and selling merchandise on the Bryan Center walkway, one group has remained committed to promoting their cause since the beginning of the month.
When the French Science Center is complete, students may find themselves with lab goggles and chemicals rather than beers and hangovers on Thursday nights and Saturday mornings.
With 2001's anthrax scares and discussion of the mysterious Gulf War Syndrome still in their memories, many Americans are more concerned about threats of biological and chemical terrorism in Iraq in the current conflict than in previous military engagements. However, Duke experts said such attacks are not substantially more likely in this war.
Although the nation remains fixated on the war in Iraq, most classes Thursday proceeded as normal. However, several professors canceled or walked out of noontime courses, and many instructors have spent class time discussing issues related to Iraq.
After science faculty members evaluated preliminary architectural plans for the French Science Center, administrators this month passed the new $100 million multidisciplinary science building to the next step of the approval process, despite some concerns about teaching laboratory space.
A team of experts will begin an external review of the computer science department today, looking especially at the department's current research, the quality of the graduate program and the potential for future growth.
Avery Reaves and Maggie Peloso are what you might call "goal-oriented" people. One wants to be U.S. president. The other wants to end world hunger. In the meantime, both are fighting it out for the same goal - Duke Student Government vice president for academic affairs.
Outside Sherryl Broverman's office hangs a photograph of some very threatening male insect genitalia. She explained how the male bean weevil evolved to puncture the female's reproductive organs during mating.
Four benches, one wheelchair ramp and a stack of Chronicles does not a bonfire make.
On the south side of the State Capitol building in Raleigh, five-year-old Zuzu Feller held up her half of a large white banner reading "Four Generations for Peace." Her grandfather, a World War II veteran, sat in his wheelchair supporting the other end of the sign, and her mother stood behind.
Midway through planning to revamp its entire first-year curriculum for fall 2004, the School of Medicine implemented this year Molecules and Cells, a new interdisciplinary class modeled in the direction of the broader curriculum revision.
Administrators told the biological anthropology and anatomy faculty Friday that although the University will support only six or seven faculty positions when the department moves entirely within Arts and Sciences, its financial commitment to BAA will not waver. The School of Medicine will also provide financial support, effectively adding two professors and bringing the department's total size to nine.
As students in General Chemistry prepared for today's midterm, freshman dormitory halls echoed with standard complaints about the difficulty of kinetic reactions and stoichiometry.
The announcement of potential cutbacks to the faculty of the Biological Anthropology and Anatomy department has heightened anxiety about the future of the Primate Center.
Following the announcement that a reorganization of the biological anthropology and anatomy department will likely reduce the faculty by more than half, professors have expressed concerns about the future of the department.
Administrators in Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine announced in meetings late last week that the probable reorganization of the Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy will include a drastic reduction of the department's faculty size.
With the advent of a new computer registration process, Office of Information Technology personnel can connect computers with their student owners in seconds, but concerns that this violates student privacy are unnecessary, officials said.
The 200 students who attended a speech by former Sudanese slave Francis Bok in late November went home with an assignment--investigate where their own money is invested and find out whether their financial institutions are investing in organizations that promote unethical activity.
