Parents who hope to see their daughters grow up to become lawyers should take note of a recent study co-authored by a Duke alumnus.
At its meeting Thursday, The Arts & Sciences Council tentatively approved a new pass/fail policy and discussed faculty reaction to the CourseRank Web site.
Administrators have provided few details about the recently introduced retirement incentives for faculty, and it remains unclear how the incentives are being discussed with professors and how much...
The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida raged through campus Wednesday, uprooting trees on both East and West Campus and felling ceiling tiles in its path.
In what is perhaps Duke Student Government’s most significant move of the year, Senators approved a Young Trustee bylaw that will open the final selection of the Young Trustee to the undergraduate...
More than 150 students convened Wednesday night to express their dissatisfaction with the impending merger of the Multicultural Center and the International House.
Susan Kauffman, director of communications for the office of undergraduate education and Snapper Underwood, Trinity ’08 and special assistant to the dean of undergraduate education, discussed...
Duke Chapel’s Faith Council and the Buddhist community at Duke hosted Joan Halifax Tuesday night at Griffith Theater for a talk titled “Living in a World of Radical Uncertainty.”
“Accountability through Algorithm: Developing the Field of Computational Journalism,” a report by James Hamilton, director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, suggests four ways...
CourseRank, a software originally developed in Spring 2007 by Stanford University students Benjamin Bercovitz, Filip Kaliszan and Henry Liou, enables students to directly comment on classes offered...
Gary Hull, director of the Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace and a lecturing fellow in sociology, released a book Monday featuring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of...
E-interviewing is a new process for undergraduate applications, and Wake Forest University is the first college to use online interviews for undergraduate applicants, said Tamara Blocker, associate...
Some juniors scheduled to register for classes Monday morning were unable to do so due to a technical malfunction. Students using wireless networks other than Duke’s were prevented from logging...
Students may soon see changes to their dining plans, although details are unclear.
It is only a matter of time before the United States is eclipsed as the socioeconomic center of the world stage, says Fareed Zakaria. Noting the rise of developing nations, Zakaria, editor of...
The International House and the Center for Multicultural Affairs will merge into one organization in the coming months as part of the University’s efforts to reduce costs. Two staff positions will...
The deadline for faculty to decide whether they wish to request additional funds for their retirement packages has been extended from Dec. 14 to Jan. 30, Provost Peter Lange confirmed Monday.
