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The overwhelmingly wealthy nature of Duke's student body can leave low-income students feeling out of place. But the Questbridge Scholars community on campus provides a space where scholars can share their concerns and experiences with each other.
Crystal Dreisbach's idea won runner-up in a contest, which bolstered her confidence that a reusable container system could work. “Someone, somewhere, thinks it's kind of a good idea,” she said.
“Most people, when they talk about Durham’s Black Wall Street, they only talk about the financial district, the businesses, but it was also what we call the Hayti community. ... It was literally a community that helped the business sector to thrive and survive,” said Jim Harper, chair and professor of history at North Carolina Central University.
Rising sophomores and the incoming class of first-years will instead be provided with in-person academic opportunities via customized DKU Global Sites for fall 2022.
“And the 12 Divinity students are not taking care of the four core residents and our daughter. They’re friends, and that’s a magnificent thing.”
The Rofhiwa Book Café first opened in February 2021 as an online book retailer, then later in May as a physical storefront. Owner Beverley Boitumelo Makhubele and curator Naledi Yaziyo dreamed of creating a space for the Durham community to experience Black literature.
Over the years, the position has grown with the basketball program’s reputation. The line monitors play a crucial role in nurturing the revered tradition of tenting before UNC-Duke matchups in Cameron.
The human element of choosing songs and playing them live is a way of “honoring events of Duke, of our community, of our nation, of the world in sound and music."
When it’s my turn to view, I peek into the telescope and let out an audible gasp. I see a ball of gas surrounded by large, gray elliptical rings. Though I’ve seen pictures of Saturn countless times, seeing it for real is an otherworldly experience.
The first time Lydia Greene saw sifaka lemurs in the wild in Madagascar, it was a “very emotional” moment for her. She had studied sifakas at the Duke Lemur Center for all of her undergraduate and graduate career.
Recent controversy over a North Carolina bill reflects a larger national debate over how the country’s classrooms should reckon with the past.
Duman, a global health and biology major, plans to pursue graduate study in medical anthropology.
The starkly different outcomes for DKU’s international students have been exacerbated by border closures, visa logistics and the challenge of paying for college amidst the pandemic.
On Sept. 13, third-year law student Andrea Guzman, second-year law student Kate Weaver and Shane Ellison, a lecturing fellow in the Law School and supervising attorney for the clinic, travelled to Fort Pickett, Va. There, thousands of Afghan refugees sleep on barrock cots or in trailers in a makeshift village.
This year, SOFC is taking a decidedly different approach to its job, with more goodwill towards student groups and committee-wide reforms.
Look around Durham today, and you’ll see neighborhoods like Walltown, Trinity Heights and Hickstown, as well as the Durham Freeway that cuts diagonally through the city. These houses and highways have existed for decades, but few know the full story behind them.
How has the population of Durham County been affected by these developments? To answer this question, The Chronicle investigated changes in Durham’s population and income over the last 10 years using 2020 U.S. Census Data.
"The stories that she can tell, the understanding that she has of the rhythm of the city, how the rhythm of the city has changed over time, she’s watched it cycle through success and failure and dark times and bright times. She really is a living oral history of the city.”
It all started with a couple of dads who couldn’t find their badminton rackets.
Before dawn on a recent Thursday, cadets in Duke’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps lined up in the Morris Williams Track & Field Stadium to warm up for their physical fitness test, a once-a-semester event critical for their future as cadets.