City Council readies budget for fiscal year 2000
The Durham City Council is engrossed in lengthy meetings all week, tweaking the details of the city's budget in preparation for a final vote June 21.
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The Durham City Council is engrossed in lengthy meetings all week, tweaking the details of the city's budget in preparation for a final vote June 21.
In response to University opposition to a proposed rail station in front of Duke Hospital, Triangle Transit Authority officials have backtracked and are now planning a different ending to the 35-mile regional rail system.
The University is continuing work on plans to build a housing development for faculty and staff in the Trinity Heights neighborhood off East Campus.
For the past few months, city workers have been busily replacing or repairing malfunctioning water meters, beginning to plug the leaks of what could turn out to be a massive, multi-year underbilling of the city's largest customers, including the University and Durham Regional Hospital.
The University and the U.S. Department of Education have negotiated the settlement of a Title IX gender equity complaint against the athletic department.
Planners of the $100-million North Carolina Performing Arts Institute have decided to build the complex on a 43-acre site next to the North Carolina Museum of Art, rejecting a smaller location in downtown Durham and drawing the ire of some local political leaders.
Glenn Edwards has been appointed the new director of Duke's free electron laser lab, putting the former Vanderbilt University biophysicist in a prestigious, but previously controversial, position.
Duke's faculty continue to be very well paid, according to University statistics and a recent report from the American Association of University Professors.
Do you have "superb writing skills?" Are you "broadly educated and have some experience with research?" Would you like an office in the Allen Building?
George Autry, a "true public servant" who was devoted to improving the lives of Southerners, died suddenly Sunday in his Chapel Hill home. The 62-year-old suffered a massive heart attack.
In the health care market, there is only one thing that is certain: uncertainty.
President Nan Keohane looked far and wide for the University's next provost, considering two finalists from California and one from Pittsburgh. But in the end, the best candidate was right across the quad.
The English department's torch-and its hot seat-will be passed to Renaissance literature scholar Maureen Quilligan, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William Chafe announced Tuesday.
Renowned scholar Maureen Quilligan knows a lot about the Renaissance. Now, as the English department's new chair, she's being asked to lead one.
The Duke University Police Department's patrol officers will formally file for collective bargaining this week, but the University's continued objection could postpone a vote for a long time.
Stanford University geologist Gail Mahood is one of the three external finalists to be Duke's next provost, The Chronicle learned Thursday.
The administration's hard line on students who did not complete the housing survey has softened-for some.
The University will remove Jimmy John's from the Merchants on Points program after this semester because the sandwich vendor has refused to offer the same price for cash orders and points delivery.
"As long as the matrix exists, the human race will never be free."
A memorial service will be held in the Chapel today at 4 p.m. for Trinity sophomore Matthew Hunt, who died March 3.