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Several other colleges have adopted policies similar to Duke’s fall vaccination requirement.
As Duke’s commencement approaches—with more students invited than initially planned—the University’s peer institutions are taking a variety of approaches to their graduation ceremonies.
Durham police have closed Morehead Avenue between Kent Street and Anderson Street while they search for a suspect.
Elementary school students in Durham Public Schools returned to schools on March 15, and middle and high school students will begin returning April 8. Families can still choose to remain learning virtually. For Durham Public School educators and administrators, this was short notice to begin preparing their schools for students.
Average daily cases in North Carolina have dropped to 1,787, a four-month low for the state that comes among an increase in vaccinations. Nearly one in five residents is fully vaccinated, and with more vaccine doses on the way, public health and government officials are hopeful about further reopening the state.
While many members of the Duke community are beginning to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations, the distribution timelines of Duke’s peer institutions are widely varied. On one end of the spectrum, schools such as Yale University are anticipating that every member of the student body will have the opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of the spring semester. On the other end, Cornell University is struggling to provide access to its student workers.
While teachers last spring scrambled to move their classes onto virtual platforms, student-teachers will now have to face a transition back to in-person teaching without ever having taught in a classroom.
Paul Newby, Trinity ’77, defeated former Chief Justice Cheri Beasley in last year’s election for chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court by a mere 401 votes out of 5.4 million total votes cast. The Chronicle spoke to Newby about his transition to chief justice and time as a Duke student.
Food establishments in downtown Durham have had a variety of experiences navigating the pandemic and these restrictions, and while some restaurants may be doing better financially than others, it has not been business as usual for anyone.
Pope McCorkle, professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy, said on Feb. 10 that the impeachment effort might not be successful because Trump’s act was an “eleventh-hour act.”
On Jan. 6, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-AL, Trinity ’75, objected to election results after a pro-Trump mob—to which he had earlier given a rallying speech—stormed the Capitol.
On Jan. 6, Americans watched as rioters stormed the Capitol building. The insurgents broke into legislative offices and the Senate floor to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election results, which ultimately confirmed President Joe Biden’s victory. Having watched these events unfold from all over the world, Duke students expressed their thoughts on the riots.
On Tuesday, North Carolina reported 3,978 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest number in the month of January, but virus levels remain high across the state.
Jeffrey Zients, Trinity ‘88, is currently co-chair of the Biden-Harris transition team and will serve as coordinator of the COVID-19 response and counselor to the president.
President Vincent Price publicly condemned the pro-Trump riots that occurred in Washington Wednesday in a message to the Duke community.
The Biden administration selected 80 professors to serve on the 600-person transition team, two of whom are from Duke.
Survivors of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre spoke about their experiences at Duke as inspiration for their activism during a Tuesday event hosted by the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine. Rosalyn Pelles, former executive director of the North Carolina NAACP, moderated the talk, titled “Remembering a 1979 Moral Moment: Medical Activists, Racial Justice and Confronting the KKK”.
Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), Trinity ‘75, says he plans to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. In an interview with Politico, he cited widespread voter fraud, for which there is no evidence, as the basis of his opposition.
Numerous Duke professors have publicly shared their thoughts on the election, both before and after Election Day.
At 26 years old, Daniel Cox has accomplished more than most. A Barr-Spach Medicine and Engineering scholar studying both medicine and engineering at Duke, Cox is a triathlete who recently finished his first full Ironman and raised tens of thousands for cancer donor matching.
