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The career of microfinance pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, who will speak at commencement Sunday, demonstrates the potential to bridge the gap between academia’s ivory tower and the real world.
Updated 12:57 p.m. May 5, 2010
Plans to close campus to the general public for the Last Day of Classes were jeopardized Tuesday afternoon when a young man in a hooded sweatshirt ran off with a box of LDOC wristbands.
Friends and family gathered Monday in memory of Billy Dwight, a senior who passed away unexpectedly Wednesday.
Duke has reduced its spending by approximately $60 million this year, Provost Peter Lange said in a presentation to student leaders Wednesday. The administration still seeks approximately $40 million in reductions, though this number may change depending on economic conditions in the near future.
George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and dean of Trinity College, will leave Duke at the end of the academic year to become provost of Rice University.
Junior Metty Fisseha and sophomore Yingyi Shen will join the race for the position of Duke Student Government vice president for athletics and campus services.
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation selected junior Lindsey Wallace as one of its 60 scholarship recipients Tuesday.
HOUSTON — Just moments before running out onto the court for their Elite 8 matchup, the Blue Devils surrounded Nolan Smith in a circle, arms intertwined.
HOUSTON — On the biggest stage of the season, in front of the crowd of 45,505, the Blue Devils refused defeat.
If North Carolina State University’s student newspaper, The Technician, can’t find a way to deal with recent staffing troubles, it may cease to be the campus’ watchdog.
Junior Mike Lefevre doesn’t look at the Duke Student Government presidential position as a stepping stone or an opportunity to pad his résumé.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Kyle Singler saw the ball in the air and dove straight at it: right over press row, right into the lap of ESPN commentator Dan Shulman and nearly into the second row. With momentum and no way to slow himself down, Singler knew that he was headed for a crash.
It’s a lucky weekend for sports fans at Duke. George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN and ABC Sports, will be on campus just before the Duke-UNC basketball game Saturday.
A group of financial industry leaders gathered at the Fuqua School of Business Saturday to dissect the global economic crisis.
Some say there has been too much grace in Krzyzewskiville, and others assert too little.
When redshirt freshman quarterback Sean Renfree fell to the field against Georgia Tech in Duke’s second-to-last game of the season, he thought he had simply twisted his knee. It felt like a punch to the back of his leg—or, maybe someone had fallen on it, he thought. After four or five seconds of pain, it didn’t even hurt anymore.
A frustrated Paul Hewitt summed up his team’s 86-67 loss in just four words: “Free throws and threes.”
Following what head coach Mike Krzyzewski would call the hardest fought game of his team’s season, senior Brian Zoubek sat in the locker room with both arms cut up, still stinging from his matchup down low against Wake Forest’s own 7-footer, Chas McFarland. As a result of foul trouble, the center played just nine minutes, but if you’d seen him you’d never have believed it.
Duke Football head coach David Cutcliffe’s name increasingly became linked with the vacant head coaching position at the University of Tennessee Thursday, and there has been contact between Cutcliffe and Tennessee representatives, several sources told The Chronicle Thursday.
