At the opening of the Duke Cancer Institute in February, Dr. Victor Dzau, who heads Duke Medicine, stood on the second floor at the building’s ribbon cutting ceremony and looked over the glass...
The screen that lay in front of me was utterly empty, a blank space beckoning to be filled. I noticed, looking beneath the screen, a virtual wheel of objects on another monitor.
You won’t have any trouble finding students who say that the administration has been far stricter in enforcing alcohol policy this year, but it’s a tough claim to prove.
On most Fridays, dozens of people wait outside the Durham County Library for its doors to open. But this Friday there are only a handful.
The city of Durham has a vibrant Hispanic community—Latinos make up 14 percent of its population. Immigrants from countries like Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala have made the Bull City their home...
After a lengthy selection process, Duke chose former Emory religion professor Laurie Patton as its new dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences in February 2011.
This may surprise you. Even if you’ve read Towerview loyally since last July and noticed our unconscious, yet salient motif, there are still a few things we have not told you about libraries.
Tonight, as production ended, we had a sign of the 2012 apocalypse.
When Diego* was two years old, he immigrated to the United States with his parents from Oaxaca, Mexico. When he was 12 years old, he began working in the fields of North Carolina picking...
Roger Lucey sits thoughtfully on a quilted mustard armchair in his quaint Durham home.
From the top of the rust-and-white-paint water tower fixed to the roof of the Liggett & Myers building, I saw a few wisps of white smoke.
It’s a basic rule of biology that the cute and fuzzy critters get all the attention.
The town of Saxapahaw, N.C., may sound more like a sneeze than a name.
On May 8, registered North Carolina voters—including Duke students who hail from outside the state—can vote on Amendment One.
Beauty, courage, wisdom—sounds like a nice trio, but what are they and how do they work?
The first thing I did when I moved to Johannesburg, South Africa last October was buy a car.
In the 1970s, a young reporter, new to the newsroom of The Washington Post, caught the eye of the paper’s most celebrated journalist.
Not long ago, I asked my mother if she could name five current or former Duke basketball players.
Is print really dead? If you’re skeptical of that morbid conclusion, you have an ally in Deborah Jakubs.
Back in 1984, when conference tournaments mattered, the ACC was the crown jewel of them all.
