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The fund-raising drive to complete Duke's new children's hospital became a literal drive this week, when NASCAR racing star Jeff Burton pledged to help raise $1 million.
Resolving a long-standing complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Justice, the University agreed Wednesday to make the campus more accessible to people with disabilities.
This year's crop of Duke Student Government presidential candidates is the largest, youngest and least experienced since DSG was formed seven years ago.
The Campaign for Duke has generated some huge gifts during its first four years: $35 million from Edmund Pratt for the engineering school, $30 million from the Duke Endowment for financial aid and $20 million from Bill and Melinda Gates for a scholarship program. These mammoth donations-and thousands of smaller ones-have pushed the campaign to nearly 75 percent of its goal even though four more years remain.
I'm a political junkie. I regularly read political news and sometimes choose C-SPAN over sleep. And no, I don't equate the two.
Former Provost Thomas Langford, sage adviser to the last three Duke presidents and moral compass for scores of administrators and students, died of heart failure at his Durham home Sunday. He was 70.
The draft campus master plan is built around eight broad, cheery principles that reaffirm Duke's commitment to having memorable spaces, creating a walkable campus and remaining a university in the forest. "They're a little 'God, mother, country,' so it's hard to argue against them," said master planning consultant Lee Copeland.
The Trinity Park neighborhood off East Campus is on alert following two rapes in less than a week.
With the biting sarcasm and no-holds-barred critiques of black culture that made him and "The Boondocks" comic strip famous, Aaron McGruder entertained a campus audience for nearly two-and-a-half hours Friday night.
New English department chair Maureen Quilligan heads into her first full faculty meeting today with a packed agenda: instituting democratic procedures, discussing this year's job candidates, beginning to plan a long-term hiring strategy and announcing the winner of a snowman contest.
Progress from academic ideas to legislative action is often painfully slow. Research accumulates over time, and sometimes members of Congress respond. But occasionally, the process is lightning quick.
County Manager David Thompson, widely praised for his stewardship of the county budget and his role in facilitating the Duke-Durham Regional Hospital partnership, will resign effective March 3, he announced Monday night.
The light, white snow that blanketed the Triangle Tuesday has hardened into thick, slick ice, transforming a beautiful wintry scene into a nasty travel hazard.
Extreme weather always brings that familiar warning: Do not drive unless it's absolutely necessary. Until Monday night it had never been necessary-I never had to do anything so essential that I had to take a chance on a snowy road.
With the State of the Union address and the unveiling of President Bill Clinton's final budget just around the corner, Duke officials are preparing for another round of lobbying.
With a few slight modifications, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask approved the gym fee structure proposed by a committee last month, he announced at Thursday's Academic Council meeting.
The final weeks of 1999 were filled with countless reflections on the last century and the last millennium, authoritative attempts to encapsulate 100 or even 1,000 years.
Students exchanged their khakis and bookbags for fuzzy hats and snowballs Tuesday as a surprising winter storm canceled morning classes and touched off an impromptu party in the quads.
Allen Dewey, an electrical engineering professor hailed by colleagues as a hard-working and dedicated innovator, died unexpectedly Dec. 17. He was 43.
Provost Peter Lange updated the Arts and Sciences Council Thursday on the progress of the University's academic strategic plan.
