New civil engineering chair hopes to boost ranking
(08/31/01 4:00am)
For Roni Avissar, civil engineering is not just about building roads and bridges. It is also about building a helipad.
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For Roni Avissar, civil engineering is not just about building roads and bridges. It is also about building a helipad.
When tonight's football season opener kicks off at Wallace Wade Stadium, no current undergraduate will have any memory of watching Florida State University's football team take the field at Duke.
Sometimes a dean needs a sanctuary from her administrative duties. So Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, is building herself a lab.
As William Schlesinger begins his tenure as dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, he is quickly formulating his goals for the 10-year-old school.
The economy may not officially be in a recession, but the capital campaign could be feeling the brunt of an economic slowdown.
The University has contracted with a company that will allow professors to check the originality of a student's work, ending a year-long debate about the merits of such a program. The move follows a reported increase in Internet plagiarism.
When top basketball recruit Amare Stoudemire's mother accepted money from Nike consultant George Raveling, she might have jeopardized her son's NCAA eligibility--but she also sparked questions about the role of big-time shoe companies in college athletics.
This article is the second in a week-long series of profiles of various student leaders on campus.
As administrators search for more non-alcoholic social alternatives on weekends, one of the most prominent such events--the homecoming semi-formal--is in danger.
You've probably never seen David Arcus, but chances are you've heard him. Whether it's the solemn hymns reverberating at Sunday morning services, the moving tones of a wedding march on a balmy June afternoon, the funeral memorial for Terry Sanford or a December Messiah concert, David Arcus is the man behind the music.
In the University's long-term plan, one of Duke's goals was extending its global reach.
With three new professional school deans arriving this year and two more who have been at Duke only two years, the Deans Cabinet will be a relatively new one as the University begins to implement its long-term plan.
Seventy to two.
It wasn't exactly like 1992, but it was close enough for the crowd to feel acute tingles of reminiscence.
The New York Times has featured his new book, calling it "the next big idea." He's been on the Charlie Rose Show and the Today Show. He and his co-author have been called the Marx and Engels of the 21st century and their book a post-modern Communist Manifesto.
One year after its inception, Duke Corporate Education, Inc., has not yet broken even, but is flourishing and hopes to make profits next year.
A Duke women's lacrosse player who was hit by a car earlier this summer is now out of a coma and slowly recovering.
A former Duke visiting professor was recently found not guilty in an Egyptian court after a trial that could have forcibly ended her marriage.
Two weeks into his job as vice president for student affairs, Larry Moneta is going through his own orientation to the University. And although he can cite few specifics of policies or present a detailed agenda for Student Affairs, he hopes to jump into the job after arriving in mid-August armed with a basic philosophy.
A day after Sen. Jesse Helms announced he would not seek a sixth term as senator of North Carolina, Duke's campus was rife with talk about Helms, his contributions over 30 years of political life and his potential successors.