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More than anyone, two people have shaped Duke's destiny in the 1990s: Nan Keohane, the outsider president who has led the University to new financial and academic heights, and Mike Krzyzewski, the insider basketball coach who has propelled the team and the school to unheard-of national prominence.
Administrators are mapping out a vision for the Duke campus of the future, a campus that is more pedestrian-friendly and promotes interaction across traditional architectural and geographical boundaries.
Today we begin the final month of the final year of the final decade of the final century of the millennium. You can't help but think that it's a historic moment or something.
Raheem Bath, a Pratt junior known among friends for his fun-loving personality, died Saturday evening in Duke Hospital after a week-long bout with overwhelming pneumonia. He was 20.
The Campaign for Duke rolled past the $1 billion mark earlier this month, but there's no pile of cash accumulating in the University Development office on Campus Drive. In fact, Duke has not received its billionth dollar yet because the campaign totals are counted as the pledges come in, not when they are paid off; still, administrators aren't a bit worried.
The University's animal research program received its triennial check-up this week during a site visit from a research accreditation institution.
Earthquake in Turkey, hurricane in North Carolina, earthquake in Taiwan, plane crash in the Atlantic, another earthquake in Turkey. The cycle of death rolls on.
As the number of veterans dwindles and American patriotism wanes in the post-Cold War era, Veterans Day is drifting slowly out of the nation's consciousness, a trend that disturbs former members of the armed services and their supporters.
This is the first story in a five-part series on the potential effects of Curriculum 2000. Tomorrow's story will examine the impact on students with learning disabilities.
One incumbent fell and one barely hung onto her position as the Durham City Council gained five new members in Tuesday night's election.
With one day to go before the elections, many Durham citizens interviewed at Northgate Mall Monday already had their minds made up in the high-profile mayoral race between incumbent Nick Tennyson and city council member Floyd McKissick. But in the less visible city council contests, many remained undecided.
A year and a half after an external review committee called the English department a "seriously weakened" shadow of its former self, the department is pulling itself back together. This semester, faculty are looking optimistically to the short term-the January arrival of new chair Maureen Quilligan-and the long term-setting departmental priorities for the next five years.
In the ongoing battle over access to data produced from federally funded research, a finalized federal regulation released Oct. 8 seems to have temporarily pacified both sides of the debate.
In a move that will give Duke's scientists more access to cutting-edge research, the University has enhanced its partnership with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
The dream of having a Blue Devil in the White House died Wednesday, as Elizabeth Dole, Woman's College '58, abandoned her run for the Republican presidential nomination.
The pomp, circumstance and ceremonial mace of the university marshal will be transferred to Richard White, director of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens and former dean of Trinity College at the end of this academic year.
Like a bride writing her signature for the first time, students at the Pratt School of Engineering are finding their new name a bit awkward.
Maybe I just don't have the love anymore.
One of my favorite places on campus is just in front of the mission statement plaque on the main West Campus quadrangle. Straight ahead, the James B. Duke statue lines up perfectly with the Chapel's doors. On either side, the Davison Building and the clocktower rise magnificently.