The Chronicle’s guide to spending your fall at the Duke Gardens
By Ryan McGrory and Yasmine Kaplan | September 12, 2023From flower portrait classes to beginning birding for adults, here's how you can experience fall at the Sarah P. Duke gardens.
From flower portrait classes to beginning birding for adults, here's how you can experience fall at the Sarah P. Duke gardens.
This year, class websites have been split among two different learning management systems: Canvas and Sakai. It’s not just different courses being hosted on separate platforms. One student has a main lecture on Sakai, while their lab section is on Canvas.
Dining administrators hoped that the app would not experience any more outages. But four days later, the app experienced another one, its second since the beginning of the semester.
Safe facility planning, national collaboration and equitable community engagement are shaping Durham’s many transportation safety projects, according to Sean Egan, Durham’s director of transportation.
Beverly Gray, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, partnered with Planned Parenthood South Atlantic to file a lawsuit challenging several provisions of the Care for Women, Children and Families Act.
The article states that Duke is one of the “least economically diverse” colleges and an “exception to the exception” among elite higher education institutions.
Here’s what the financial aid policies look like for students at Duke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University.
Roughly every 15 years, the Council is tasked with updating Trinity College’s curriculum. Its goal is to approve a new curriculum by spring 2024 and launch it in fall 2025 when the Class of 2029 arrives on campus.
Here's a look at a few key statistics that help portray what the issue looks like in Durham and North Carolina.
The program is part of a Pratt initiative to introduce more degree programs that are “industry-focused,” according to Ernesto Escobar, executive in residence in the Pratt School of Engineering and director of the master’s program.
The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence gives the state a C- for its gun laws, noting that the state does not have universal background check requirements, extreme risk protection orders and minimum age restrictions.
The service initially went offline on Aug. 31, when students were faced with a blank screen on the service’s mobile application and a description citing “technical issues” with the app.
The Chronicle looked into some of these officials' voting and campaign funding histories related to gun control policy. Here’s what it found.
After the National Labor Relations Board approved DGSU’s petition for an election, Duke doctoral students overwhelmingly voted to become an officially recognized union in August. The DGSU’s Tuesday rally was the union’s first since the election was certified.
Robertson Scholars, who regularly travel between the campuses of UNC and Duke, are enrolled as undergraduate students at both schools.
Other parents said that their insurance policies were denied for similar reasons, taking to both informal and moderated Duke parent Facebook groups to share their concerns throughout July and August.
Some doctoral students at Duke’s peer institutions are unionized, while others are not. Here’s how their benefits currently compare.
The first DukeAlert was released over three hours after the initial Alert Carolina announcement. Meanwhile, Duke students planned to make the trip to Chapel Hill in the time it took for the DukeAlert to be sent out.
Some Duke students, including the dual-campus Robertson Scholars, also take classes at UNC and regularly travel between campuses.
The Duke Student Voter ID Card is a “physical card, separate from the electronic or physical Duke Card,” which can be obtained by students for free.