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Meet with students and console crying babies. Lecture and put a movie on for the kids. Research and homeschool. For Duke faculty with young children, this is the daily reality.
After a national search, John Blackshear will be Duke’s next dean of students and associate vice president of student affairs.
When Scotty Shaw, Trinity ‘09, helped create HackDuke: Code for Good, a social impact hackathon at Duke, he had no idea he’d later work on a hackathon organized by the European Commission to combat the effects of a global pandemic.
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After a national search, the Duke University School of Medicine named Adrian Hernandez the new vice dean and executive director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute last month.
Young people can help change a system that perpetuates racial inequality by donating or protesting—and heading to the polls. That was just one of the messages given by a panel of four Duke faculty in a Tuesday media conference, as protests over police brutality and the death of George Floyd, who died May 25 after a police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes, continued across the country.
Duke has canceled all undergraduate study away programs for the Fall 2020 semester, citing health and safety concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The academic year saw a decrease in crime-related DukeALERTs, with the 2017-18 and 2018-19 academic years having three each. DukeALERTs are sent at the discretion of the University in emergency situations and are not issued for all on-campus crimes.
Duke has announced steps to address the impact of racism on campus, including revising the undergraduate community standard to create a “more concrete” protocol for responses to hate and bias incidences.
Protesters gathered in Durham Saturday, joining the tide of demonstrations that has washed over the United States in recent days after the death of George Floyd.
President Vincent Price addressed recent events in Minneapolis and condemned “fundamental and systematic disparities of justice” in the United States in a Saturday statement. He acknowledged the suffering of communities of color and affirmed that Duke will “continue the work of addressing generations of racism and injustice.”
President Vincent Price updated the Duke community on planning for the upcoming academic year in a Friday message to students and families. Current plans include starting the Fall semester early and the Spring semester late; offering in-person, hybrid and remote courses; and implementing new guidelines for on-campus living.
Two Durham teens put up 100 copies of Sunday's New York Times front page near the East Campus bridge, representing the lives lost in the United States to the coronavirus.
A student has filed a class action lawsuit against Duke, alleging that the University “financially damaged” students by switching to remote learning without refunding tuition and student fees.
After North Carolina entered the second phase of reopening May 22, Durham held back from lifting restrictions for a week and a half, after a recent spike in COVID-19 cases.
A professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has filed a class action lawsuit against Duke, alleging an illegal agreement between Duke and UNC to suppress competition over faculty.
Under the leadership of Curtis Richardson, director of the DUWC and professor of resource ecology at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke’s prowess in the field of wetland conservation and rehabilitation has grown. Now, the center plans to partner with Duke’s Marine Lab and Brian Silliman, the Rachel Carson professor of marine conservation biology at the Nicholas School.
As Duke faces the challenges of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, two task forces of administrators and academic leaders are guiding the planning process. Team 2021 is focused on campus operations in the near future, with an emphasis on the upcoming academic year, while Team 2030 is focused on longer-term planning for the financial challenges of the pandemic.
There is a lot of buzz around Duke’s plans for the Fall semester. But what are other colleges and universities planning?
Instead of seeing cancellations as a loss, seniors Mary Gooneratne and Luke Truitt saw an opportunity to help their peers.
After distributing nearly $22,000 in aid to members of the Duke community, the students behind Duke Mutual Aid are currently restructuring their model, according to sophomore Lily Levin, one of the students leading the effort.
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