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Now an M.D. candidate at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Polascik is the founder and current president of the school’s Respectacle chapter.
From the Union Institute Academy, to Trinity College, to what we now call Duke University, the history of Duke lives within its buildings and the names that they carry.
Housing just under one million pressed, dried and labeled plant specimens, the Duke Herbarium is tied with Cornell’s as the sixth-largest university herbarium in the United States.
The “Duke is for Lovers” mural is one of four murals in the library that were made for the same event, a library party in 2007.
Looking to expand your dinner options beyond the Brodhead Center or Marketplace? Below is The Chronicle’s guide to some of Duke’s beloved food trucks, and the stories behind the people who run them.
From organizing heritage month programming to advocating for student needs, Mi Gente has created a community for Latinx students on-campus for the past three decades.
OOTI features a cast composed entirely of people of color, an initiative that began with the group's production of “In the Heights” in 2019.
Administrators also say they’re not satisfied with this short-term allocation of affinity spaces, agreeing with students that there’s still work to be done for groups to feel at home in their campus spaces.
On the inside, the process can be demanding and draining, pushing many to their breaking points. Over the years, tenting has evolved into an operation that can adversely affect the physical and mental health of its participants and those that have committed to overseeing it.
Built in 2004, the Duke Greenhouse spans over 15,000 square feet of indoor space, divided into live plant collection and research rooms.
“We are two distinct religions with incredibly similar ethical and moral values,” Imam Abdullah Antepli said. “Our belief in the living God, that our God is involved in every aspect of our life, including our food, is so similar.”
The Chronicle paid K-Ville a visit on Thursday afternoon to ask tenters, both seasoned veterans and first-time Crazies, how to survive K-Ville.
Under Uniting for Ukraine, Ukrainians are granted humanitarian parole, which allows them to stay in the country temporarily due to urgent humanitarian reasons. These are the stories of two Ukrainian women, Lyudmyla Skorlupina, 43, and Yulia Sytnyk, 36, who both fled Ukraine with their young children and now reside in Durham through this federal program.
This semester, the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences welcomed Lewis to the Cultural Anthropology department as associate professor and Trinity’s first American Indian professor. Lewis' hiring was part of Trinity's cluster hire in Native American and Indigenous Studies in spring 2021.
After nearly 30 years at Duke, Kornbluth will serve at the helm of MIT beginning Jan. 1, bringing her quick thinking, witty humor and leadership skills to Cambridge.
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.