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Duke is expanding education in quantitative skills with the creation of a new center.
Even with visitors banned from campus, Duke is still inviting parents to family weekend—virtually.
Duke’s Panhellenic Council has voted to no longer allow chapters to host mixers with all-male organizations.
A major solar acquisition over the summer, along with a new Board of Trustees strategic task force will help Duke continue on its path to carbon neutrality.
In July, Duke told juniors and seniors who had been planning on returning that they would not be able to be housed on campus, with limited exceptions, and many students scrambled to find leases in apartment complexes close to campus. It may be harder to build community in an off-campus apartment than in a traditional campus dormitory, but students are connecting with their classmates where they can.
Duke has made plans to cut 75 staff positions in the Duke University Talent Identification Program starting Jan. 6.
Duke students are currently allowed limited access to the University’s trademark venues: The Sarah P. Duke Gardens, the Nasher Museum of Art and the Duke Chapel.
There were 12 new positive coronavirus tests at Duke between Oct. 3 and Oct. 9, out of 15,187 total tests, according to data released Monday on the University’s COVID-19 testing tracker.
Trinity Dean Valerie Ashby gave her annual fall update to the Arts and Sciences Council at its Thursday meeting. Throughout her remarks, she emphasized progress that has been made at the University despite the pandemic. Ashby made particular note of the new Trinity Committee on Anti-Racism, a group of 11 faculty members from various departments.
After 16 years serving Duke, Vice President for Finance Tim Walsh left the University Oct. 1.
Duke is asking selective organizations including fraternities, sororities and non-Greek selective living groups to pause planning for recruitment processes until further notice.
According to Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh, students living on campus or in the Durham area are tested anywhere from once or twice a week to once every other week. In order to determine how many times each student gets tested, Duke uses “modeling data” that was developed by other universities, Cavanaugh wrote in an email.
Duke Student Government senators got a history lesson at their Wednesday meeting.
Duke’s Global Education Office announced Wednesday afternoon that all outgoing undergraduate study away programs for spring 2021 have been suspended as a result of “ongoing health, safety, and logistics concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to a news release.
Although crimes and Violence Against Women Act reports on campus generally dropped last year, liquor violations saw a spike, according to the 2020 Annual Clery Security Report.
Following a $261 million gift in 2019, Duke is naming a department after a donor for the first time.
Last year, the history and English departments each hired an Africanist tenure-track professor, and this year Latinx and Asian American studies will each hire two faculty members.
Many students make this switch from Trinity to Pratt once—and a few have done it twice.
COVID-19 has posed a unique set of challenges for the Class of 2024. First-years have had to grow accustomed to online classes and the new socially distanced rhythms of college life. Extracurricular activities play a critical role in building community, and first-years have had to navigate student groups in an unprecedented format.
There were 20 new positive coronavirus tests reported at Duke between Sept. 26 and Oct. 2, out of 14,554 total tests, according to data released Monday on the University’s COVID-19 testing tracker.
