NBA Commissioner Adam Silver elected as next Board of Trustees chair
By Michelle Brown | February 26, 2024Silver joined the Board in 2015 and currently holds the position of vice chair and member of the Executive Committee.
Silver joined the Board in 2015 and currently holds the position of vice chair and member of the Executive Committee.
The total cost of attendance will be $86,886 for the 2024-25 academic year, according to a Monday news release. Tuition will be $66,325 and room, board and fees will be $20,561.
This year’s show is titled “The Greatest Med Student” and will be held March 1 at the Bryan Center’s Reynolds Theater. Tickets are available online and a livestream will be available for those unable to attend in person.
The minor, a joint collaboration between the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and the history department, provides students with the opportunity to “advance their understanding of the causes and consequences of inequality and pursue research around issues of social equity across a range of social science methods.”
The Women in Energy panel brought in Esther Kamau, a climate technology investment analyst at 8 Rivers and Fuqua '22, Paige Swofford, a principal strategy and planning manager at Duke Energy and Nicholas and Fuqua '18, and CEO of EQ Research Miriam Makhyoun.
DPS provoked public outrage in January when it announced that at least 1,300 classified workers would have their recently-implemented raises revoked after an alleged payroll error led to mass overpayments.
Trinity has maintained the same curriculum since 2000, though it was adjusted in 2004. The University launched a new committee in 2014 to reconstruct this curriculum in response to a request delivered by Laurie Patton, who was the Dean of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at the time.
Christopher Kilner, Graduate School ‘23, and Rickard Stureborg, a final-year doctoral candidate studying computer science, were selected as this year’s finalists.
In the months before the closure, departmental leadership limited communication with herbarium faculty about the facility’s future. Emily Bernhardt, chair of the biology department, did not respond to The Chronicle’s request for comment about why communication was limited.
DSG described plans to host Democracy Day on March 1 from noon to 4 p.m. on Bryan Center Plaza. The event will feature acapella performances, food trucks and voter ID cards for pick-up.
Community stakeholders met in the Rubenstein Library’s Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room for the conversation, which is the fifth installment in the Investing for Mission-Driven Institutions seminar series.
Van Miegroet, 71, died in a car accident while driving on North Carolina Highway 751 near Duke University Drive on Feb. 9. Around 6:30 p.m., he veered off the road and crashed into a “very small tree,” according to police records obtained by The Chronicle.
Hasan, who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, initially hoped to volunteer in Gaza with his wife Lauren Hasan, a former trauma surgeon, after the conflict had settled down. The couple didn’t think they would be able to go at the height of the war.
The change went into place this year, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag wrote in an email to The Chronicle. He explained that essays are no longer receiving a score because of a rise in the use of generative artificial intelligence and college admissions consultants.
The trip was meant to offer students the chance to engage with different perspectives, according to Mark Dalhouse, academic dean in the Trinity School of Arts & Sciences and the trip’s organizer.
Several leading organizations in botany and natural history collections signed a description accompanying the petition.
The Council also listened to a conversation regarding Duke Athletics between Andrew Janiak, chair of the Athletic Council, and Linda Franzoni, Duke’s faculty athletic representative for the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The symposium, which took place in Penn Pavilion, is the first in a new Climate Collaboration Symposia series hosted by the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability and Duke Risk Science for Climate Resilience (RESILE).
The Duke Herbarium is the second-largest private university herbarium in the U.S. and is home to more than 825,000 plant specimens, including some specimens almost 200 years old. Universities across the world utilize the herbarium, which is a foundation for research in molecular, biochemical and cytogenetic studies.
Duke Student Government senators met Wednesday to provide updates on committee projects and approve funding for various student groups.