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Housed on the first floor of the Flowers building, the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture — known to many simply as “the Lou” — has been a cornerstone of the Black community at Duke since its founding in 1983.
Justine Tiu, Pratt ‘11, promoted her crochet-kit startup The Woobles last month on the show. She left with a $450,000 investment from Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner for 6% equity.
For some alumni, something like QuadEx was a long time coming. It's the culmination of a line of work that includes Duke Students for Housing Reform and students who shared their voices with administrators, driven to do so by a housing system that didn't quite feel like a home.
It’s a sleepy morning at the Duke Puppy Kindergarten in early October. Inside a cozy room within the Duke Canine Cognition Center, Congo and Nancy are perfectly content. The two dogs — an adult and a puppy Labrador-golden mix — sniff, cuddle and pad around the space without a care in the world.
Junior Sonali Sanjay believes her app could be the future of sparking connections on campus: first at Duke, and potentially at other colleges across the country.
The Forest Stewards program selected 14 pairs of volunteers to walk trails in Duke Forest twice a month to remove fallen branches, tally the number of visitors and provide valuable information on trail traffic and conditions to the Office of the Duke Forest. They “steward the well-being of the Forest into the future," according to the Duke Forest's website.
Amid the typical bustle, Gesinsky sat at one of the few dry tables to make good on her campaign promise of creating Pulse Checks, a way for students to informally ask questions in-person and give feedback to DSG.
Upchurch remembered the impact Nugget had on the Duke community. It was his “calling” to get another golden retriever, he said.
“It's like what you see in the movies [about college] came true.”
Administrators have hailed the redesign as the most significant change in Duke’s new student programming since 1995.
The campus icon befriended countless members of the Duke community and went on many on-and-off campus adventures until her death Wednesday.
“You don’t go to college and say, ‘Oh, I think I want to be a chief external affairs officer for a major university,'” Schoenfeld said. “I didn’t know it at the time, but it was sparked at Duke.”
The Chronicle asked three members of the Class of 2022 to share what they learned from their Duke experiences. Here’s what they said.
As Duke emerges from the pandemic, Brauer believes “it’s a perfect time to really go all in” with programming “to try and bring back a big sense of Duke spirit, Duke energy, Duke fun.”
Gesinsky, a senior, has ambitions to implement a “cultural reset” to bring DSG closer to the rest of the undergraduate population.
To most of the Duke population, Stratton Thomas, Trinity ‘22, and Cate Schick, Trinity ‘22, are ordinary students: they take classes, participate in clubs and, like many at Duke, are diehard Duke basketball fans. But when Thomas and Schick mysteriously disappear during various sporting events, people are bound to ask: where do they go?
Valerie Ashby, dean of Duke's Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the daughter of two high school teachers, was seemingly destined to be an educator. Now, after a seven-year tenure at Duke, Ashby has a wealth of memories, accomplishments and advice under her belt.
Following public outcry, Planned Parenthood organized nationwide “Bans Off Our Bodies” rallies to unite against the Justices’ decision. On Saturday, May 14, demonstrations took place across the United States. From coast to coast, people of diverse walks of life gathered outside courthouses to protest and share their stories.
“Sometimes I can make it through part of the day and sort of push it out of my mind for a few minutes, but it always comes back,” Upchurch said. “It’s slightly better each day, but only slightly.”
With Duke Kunshan University’s inaugural commencement ceremony approaching, seniors from DKU’s first-ever graduating class looked back on their four years attending Duke’s joint venture program.