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The Robertson Scholars Leadership Program on Thursday accepted 21 current first year students from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill into its Class of 2024 Scholars, after canceling its program for the Class of 2024 last year.
The Karsh Alumni and Visitors Center has taken on a new role during the pandemic, serving as a center for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Duke’s Student Organization Finance Committee presented its spring semester report to Duke Student Government senators at Wednesday night’s meeting.
All Greek and non-Greek selective living groups “in good standing with the university” will have the option to live in Edens Quad for the 2021-22 academic year.
We're bringing back our Chronquiry series—on hold since COVID-19 first shut down campus—to answer reader-suggested questions about how the Gothic Wonderland works.
Students are eager to eat inside, but there is no set timeline for the return of indoor dining at Duke.
A week after administrators sent out a video warning of a potential increase in campus safety precautions, Duke’s positive COVID-19 test numbers decreased for the second consecutive week.
While many students are experiencing on-campus living for the first time this semester, others decided to take leaves of absence after being at Duke in the fall.
Many non-Greek selective living groups have been rethinking their usual rush processes in this unusual semester.
Originally created by Stanford University students in 2017, Marriage Pact has a simple premise: fill out 50 questions about your preferences and values, and get matched with someone you’re compatible with.
From climate activism to comical parodies and health policy, student-run podcasts at Duke have grown substantially over the last year.
Duke reported its second COVID-19 cluster of the semester on Tuesday among five graduate students who attended a birthday party.
Boyd, a biomedical engineering major from Huntington, N.Y., will begin her one-year tenure as editor on April 22.
During each week since Jan. 11, Duke has conducted more surveillance tests for asymptomatic students, faculty and staff than any week last semester. Vice President of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh wrote in an email that for the spring 2021 semester, Duke’s surveillance testing program will be conducting more than 20,000 tests each week.
Almost half of students rated social isolation as “very” or “extremely” stressful. Just under 10% of respondents said they were lonely “most of the time” or “always." Many participants reported experiencing “moderate (23.5%) or severe (20.5%) symptoms of depression and anxiety over the past two weeks.”
The arrival of February marks the beginning of Black History Month. Typically, Black student organizations at Duke have used this time to hold musical performances, put on plays and invite speakers to campus. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, student groups have had to find new ways to connect the community through virtual events.
Run through the Bleachr app, the virtual tenting platform allows students to form “tents” of up to ten people each in order to compete in challenges and virtual tent checks and accumulate points.
Some international students lived on campus this semester but did not move onto Duke’s campus last semester for a variety of reasons. Although being away from campus was challenging, adjusting to life at Duke after returning could be hard as well.
Duke has placed two campus organizations on interim suspension since Jan. 1, and 17 students have faced individual sanctions that may become part of their conduct records, administrators wrote in a Thursday email to undergraduates.
Duke administrators discussed the future of Duke's pandemic response at Wednesdays's Duke Student Government Senate meeting.
